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+title: My New Website
+author: Brett Langdon
+date: 2013-11-16
+template: article.jade
+---
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+Why did I redo my website?
+What makes it any better?
+Why are there old posts that are missing?
+
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+
+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).