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title: My New Website |
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author: Brett Langdon |
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date: 2013-11-16 |
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Why did I redo my website? |
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What makes it any better? |
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Why are there old posts that are missing? |
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I just wanted to write a quick post about my new site. |
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Some of you who are not familiar with my site might not notice the difference, |
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but trust me... it is different and for the better. |
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So what has changed? |
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For starters, I think the new design is a little simpler than the previous, |
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but more importantly it is not longer in [Wordpress](http://www.wordpress.org). |
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It is now maintained with [Wintersmith](https://github.com/jnordberg/wintersmith), |
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which is a static site generator which is built in [node.js](http://nodejs.org/) and |
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uses[Jade](http://jade-lang.com) templates and [markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/). |
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Why is this better? |
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Well for started I think writing in markdown is a lot easier than using Wordpress. |
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It means I can use whatever text editor I want (emacs in this case) to write my |
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articles. As well, I no longer need to have PHP and MySQL setup in order to just |
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serve up silly static content like blog posts and a few images. |
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This also means I can keep my blog entirely in [GitHub](http://github.com/). |
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So far I am fairly happy with the move to Wintersmith, except having to move all my |
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current blog posts over to markdown, but I will slowly keep porting some over until |
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I have them all in markdown. So, please bear with me during the time of transition |
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as there may be a few posts missing when I initially publish this new site. |
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Check out my blog in GitHub, [brett.is](http://github.com/brettlangdon/brett.is.git). |
