The site has undergone some major changes.

First of all, it's no longer running Wordpress. I finally managed to get Django working on Dreamhost so I immediately started work on a CMS to replace Wordpress. I figured that the best way to make sure that it's going to be finished quickly was to completely remove the old site and leave the domain "naked" :). I figured that this way I'd be forced to finish it fast. I worked, though not completely.

Moving on, the blog is a simple application I've written from scratch and the gallery is powered by Stockphoto, a Django application I've found and which I like a lot. The Stockphoto installation was simple, although I had to install some libraries that were missing. It's been modified a bit (mostly the layout and look).

The general design of the site is called "Deliciously Blue" which I found on OSWD and modified a bit.

All the old post from the Wordpress database have been imported into the new site, I've just been having some trouble importing the comments :(.

All in all, rewriting the site was a great exercise. Learned a lot of interesting and useful things about Django (a thing that I always wanted to do, but following a tutorial doesn't quite teach you enough and just reading the documentation without something to which to apply what you read doesn't help either) and Python.

Posted in: | misc | on 2008-03-03 12:15:43 by Andrei Moldovan