Hey people. Welcome to Quantumodo, yet another blog about about web design.
Well, I wish that I had something super to serve up for my very first post, but instead all I have is this… this little blurb about how Quantumodo came to be. A while back I created a website, bamboostudios.com, to publish all the ‘cool’ stuff I create and think of. As it turns out, I have a lot of things on the go. I wanted to publish artwork, design work, a projects portfolio and a web design journal all in one place. The trouble is that it just didn’t go together; the technical ramblings did not sit easily alongside the art and design work I was trying to feature. I’m sure you can see where this is going…
Earlier this year I created this domain with the intention of using it to publish my especially ‘geeky’ content. At first I wasn’t very set on what platform I wanted to base Quantumodo on. That is, I was trying to decide between Drupal and Wordpress. At the time I was heavily entrenched in the development of a large website based on Drupal, businessabilities.ca, and was leaning in that direction. I knew that Wordpress was probably the more suitable platform for what I needed at this website but I lacked the knowledge to really make Wordpress do what I wanted. As I completed development on businessabilities.ca I was able to finish up a new version bamboostudios.com that I had been developing in Wordpress. In order to complete that project I had to learn a great deal more about advanced functionality you can get out of Wordpress; understanding the loop, how to use custom fields, etc. So now, equipped with a great deal more knowledge about both Drupal and Wordpress, I was finally able to make a clear descision about which platform I wanted to publish my technical thoughts on. The choice was obvious; Wordpress it is.
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