Personal but technical

It has been too long since my last post or even my last behind the scene update to my configuration to at least make the beta section a little more presentable. The core goal of cfgonzales dot com will still be to execise my web practices to include design and programming experimentation and implementation. So far out of the beta blog and live sites I have only been able to consistently use the email I have set up through dreamhost for my domain. It has been a practical solution to being able to access my email no matter where I am at and not have to rely on a third party solution. I ultimately hope to implement a blog that is also free of any third party servers in an attempt to force myself to use a “real world” situation and deal with the fruits and headaches of hosting my own services. I have learned that Google has a few tools that are “hostable” instead of using their servers and I might try a couple of those out for ease of use before moving on to anything more complicated.

Drupal has turned out to be a little too much for the casual blogger but I wanted to use it as a learning project to further learn how a full fledged CMS with all the bells and whistles can be set up and customized. It has been indirectly suggested that I should scale it back to a smaller CMS system in order to gain a better grasp at customizing the look and feel of a site before moving into the myriad of different modules most of the bigger CMS systems use. I’m very tempted to scratch the entire beta site in lieu of a Wordpress installation….very tempted.

On a tangent I hope to have my personal and beta blogs shared amongst like minded individuals in an attempt to give some insight and possibly get some feedback on any of these ideas. At the same time I am keeping up with at least one friend’s blog hoping that it will spark some sort of creative peer insight.

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