Back on the Wagon

Occasionally I decide that it would be a great idea to write my own blogging engine from scratch, that does everything perfectly in exactly the way that I would like. The main points being a single installation that can support multiple, radically different sites, with custom templates, total control over markup, clean URLs and general nice semantic output. I even got properly stuck in this time, but I have to grudgingly admit that it’s probably not the best thing to do alongside one of the busiest times in my working life.

The other side effect is that I get excited about all the features I’m planning to build, then stop blogging until the new platform is ready. Enough! I accept that while I would love to build such a thing, it’s a little daft right now. Plus, Wordpress does most of what I need anyhow.

I’m just playing around with Windows Live Writer, and I’m very comfortable already. Definitely a much more useable way to publish than the Web based admin interface on Wordpress.