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Throwing the switch.
Sunday 25 March 2007
As I mentioned recently, I’ve become a fan of Expression Engine. Serendipity’s been good to me, but for various reasons I’m switching over this site. Among other things, I use EE for most of the dynamic sites I build, and I’d just like one less technology to think about for a while.
I’ve been porting over my entries little by little, and the site’s finally ready to go. It’ll be a mess for the time being, but I’ll get to tidying that up eventually.
Things I’ll miss: entry tagging (surely someone is working on a plugin?), threaded comments, the nicer interface when uploading images.
Things I like better: you can set up different upload areas so that EE inserts the appropriate code for an image (for example)... I’ll see if I can make a little Flash player hook to allow audio files to play on the page, in the same way you can share YouTube videos. Much easier to set up additional blogs with custom fields. I’ll probably start an “Upcoming Events” roll.
There’s a new RSS feed, but I’m maintaining one at the old address too, and if all goes well, subscriptions to the old one will continue to work for the new site without a blip. (Fingers crossed.) And there’s now an Atom feed too. I’m finally learning the ins and outs of web-syndication, and it’s not as scary as I feared.