February 2, 2004

Why use something like this?

As a long-term geek who can remember when web browsers were plain text and Mosaic was the latest in hot software, it was a difficult decision to make that maybe I'd get more web content put in place if I used some kind of content management system rather than simply hand-coding the HTML. There are two reasons why I eventually came to this decision:

1) I am lazy
2) I am very lazy

Okay, there's also a third reason, which is that I have the graphical design abilities of a peanut, and in this day and age look is everything. I simply don't understand enough about CSS or graphics or design to make a web page look half-decent, and having a piece of software that makes it look pretty for me (and I like Movable Type's defaults enough to not worry about needing to change them much yet) removes my usual block to producing web content, which is the time spent staring at a text editor with nothing in it but a pair of <html> tags wondering where to start. This way, I just have to start ranting and this neato rant-management software takes care of filing my ranting for me. Hurrah!

Posted by mpk at February 2, 2004 9:08 PM | TrackBack
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