What do you know… on my second attempt, a successful WordPress installation.
It had to happen sooner or later. Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’ve fallen behind on the web site technology curve. I feel like I’m not living in the ‘real’ blogging world at all, on any level. At one time, I was ok with it, as I was proud of myself for learning enough PHP and MySQL to create my own ‘blog’.
But now, it’s become important to grasp the concept of WordPress, Twitter, Facebook, You Tube and other social media networks. If for any reason, just to keep my job, as my employer (www.AdvantageEngineering.com) is moving into that arena and being the ‘web guy’, I need to have a working knowledge of all this ‘new-to-me’ stuff. Otherwise, a graduate from Full Sail University might be waiting to take my place.
This feeling was compounded early this month when I became aware, for the first time, of the Jquery framework. Jquery has been around for a while. But, I never heard of it. And, what a wonder it is. Add to my ignorance this little point… I hadn’t heard of Ajax until about six months ago. In that meeting when I become aware of Jquery, I was ashamed that I’ve ‘let myself go’ in regard to my knowledge of web site technology.
Happy as I am with my own ‘home grown’ blog framework, I’ve decided to jump onto the WordPress ship and climb this curve. It’s a good thing, too. It might give me some excitement for the blog again, give me something new to learn, and place me back in the real world with all this cool technology.
Wish me luck.
About time you get on board!