Let blogging begin!

I’ve had an unused domain for digital nomadism for a year and a half. The site design and related tasks were not on the fast track and I haven’t done anything for the past year. Maybe this is due to the fact that I’m better in programming and site designing that writing content.

Anyhow, last week I got an idea to turn the site into a blog and gradually add content and other interesting stuff here. Hopefully people can contribute, too.

The exact aim of the site is still a bit under formulation, and it will be something related to digital nomadism in the networked postmodern world. I try to deal with subjects related to travelling and wandering the globe, with a host of gadgets to keep myself connected with the electronic world. Sounds fun, eh?

The first thing for the new site was to select a blogging system. As I’m computer and programming professional, I toyed a few days with the idea of writing the whole stuff myself. The main reason for this was that the decent blogging systems lack default WYSIWYG editors (or at least I didn’t find them from blogging server reviews) and the default templates look ugly.

I finally decided against writing my own — I have better things to do, such as travelling or writing into the blog — and installed WordPress. The installation was a breeze, and I could configure the system without too much of hassle.

When I took the first glance of my new blog, I was horrified as the result was ugly and the system showed error on the front page:

Before really opening the site, I have to redesign everything on the public blog pages, most probably from the scratch. After that I’ll have to find a better editor as this one sucks golf balls thru garden hose… How anyone can be satisfied with writing HTML in middle of the text when you could have WYSIWYG alternatives? And bear in mind that I have written HTML for ten years with emacs and such, so I know how to write it — but I just don’t want to do it anymore, if possible.

Time will tell whether I’m still happy with WordPress after the task.