From c23bc1ab5d1ec44c103a68deb5fbc52370c56167 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: brettlangdon Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:34:31 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add new post http://brett.is/writing/about/my-new-website --- .../writing/about/my-new-website/index.md | 37 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 contents/writing/about/my-new-website/index.md diff --git a/contents/writing/about/my-new-website/index.md b/contents/writing/about/my-new-website/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b38a61 --- /dev/null +++ b/contents/writing/about/my-new-website/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +title: My New Website +author: Brett Langdon +date: 2013-11-16 +template: article.jade +--- + +Why did I redo my website? +What makes it any better? +Why are there old posts that are missing? + +--- + +I just wanted to write a quick post about my new site. +Some of you who are not familiar with my site might not notice the difference, +but trust me... it is different and for the better. + +So what has changed? +For starters, I think the new design is a little simpler than the previous, +but more importantly it is not longer in [Wordpress](http://www.wordpress.org). +It is now maintained with [Wintersmith](https://github.com/jnordberg/wintersmith), +which is a static site generator which is built in [node.js](http://nodejs.org/) and +uses[Jade](http://jade-lang.com) templates and [markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/). + +Why is this better? +Well for started I think writing in markdown is a lot easier than using Wordpress. +It means I can use whatever text editor I want (emacs in this case) to write my +articles. As well, I no longer need to have PHP and MySQL setup in order to just +serve up silly static content like blog posts and a few images. +This also means I can keep my blog entirely in [GitHub](http://github.com/). + +So far I am fairly happy with the move to Wintersmith, except having to move all my +current blog posts over to markdown, but I will slowly keep porting some over until +I have them all in markdown. So, please bear with me during the time of transition +as there may be a few posts missing when I initially publish this new site. + +Check out my blog in GitHub, [brett.is](http://github.com/brettlangdon/brett.is.git).