I finally moved my blog to a real domain! I used to be located at briancorrales.wordpress.com. I hope this new domain works out for me. I’ve really enjoyed learning the Wordpress API. I was really impressed on how user-friendly it is. You really don’t have to be tech savvy to create your own blog at your own domain.

Because of its ease, I’ve noticed that many people try and make Wordpress into something that it’s not. I’ve had multiple people come to me recently saying that they’ve created a site using Wordpress that was unrelated to a blog. One was an e-commerce site and another was a social-networking site. Both of these models do not fit the blogging model. For one thing, neither models have blog posts where chronology is the most important filter. Perhaps you can get away with that kind of sort with a social-networking site, but an e-commerce site should be sorted by type of item, brand, or price.

Though you may get away with using Wordpress for many types of websites, often developers spend too much time trying to tweak the open-source to fit their specific needs. Many times these tweaks take more time than it would take to create the site from scratch, especially if you are using RAILS or a similar framework that does a lot of scaffolding.

I haven’t worked long with Wordpress, but find it a remarkable open-source program. I put my website together in about an hour. There isn’t any other way that I could’ve set up a site that fast! The learning-curve was extremely small and personally, I don’t think it looks all that bad! For small, simple sites like mine, Wordpress is a perfect solution. If you are wanting something more, you should probably find a more custom-solution than an open-source package.