Richard Lee Thomason

I recently redesigned my personal site for a variety of reasons. Admittedly, I had stopped working on this site a few months ago because I just didn't have the time for it. I found that I am not much of a blogger. To be a good blogger, you really need to have a decent amount of time to devote to it pretty much every day. With that said, I shall be a so-so blogger, and I will make a renewed effort to work on my personal site and post a new blog once per week.

After building so many websites that are focused on making money, it's certainly going to be nice to create a site where I don't have to concern myself with search engine optimization and making profit. I plan on using this site to test out XHTML, CSS, and PHP/MySQL code as I continue to learn more advanced techniques. And I'll ramble on about things I like, of course. Started building this site today, which was my birthday (I turned 38).

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The first blogging software I ever used was WordPress, because it came preinstalled with my hosting account. I was using it for this site and for news on my gaming guild's website (www.thecabal.net). Then along comes a hacker who showed me that WordPress is not a very secure program, at least in its default installation. So, I just stopped using blogging software.

Recently, I've read a lot about a more professional blogging software called Movable Type from Six Apart (www.sixapart.com). Lots of sites I read on a regular basis use it, it seems very secure, and has some nice comment spam filtering plugins. Today, I just switched to using Movable Type for the "bloggy" portions of my website. It's $69.95 for personal sites (up to 5 users), and that sounds fair to me.

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