General idea collection post for the next iteration of this site:
This seems insane, but I kind of want to get the site development completed on top of whatever platform makes sense, then replicate the site in N more platforms. Insane, right? The point of this entire endeavor is to learn and grow. If I just stick to squeezing the most out of wordpress, I won’t learn anything new. I have seen sites that allow visitors to select different stylesheets to completely change the experience. I want to do the same thing in reverse. I could develop this in:
Wordpress: Likely the first step. I will build a new theme from scratch because I am not sure the current one provides any value, other than the education it provide.
Drupal: A logical next step. I have worked with Drupal for a couple of years now and my PHP skills are much stronger than they were when I first started.
A Homemade CMS: Insane, likely last step. I could learn a lot about creating the framework.
Joomla: Not even sure that it is still called that. I picked this up once back in the day and hated it. There was something about Joomla vs Drupal back then: one was easier, but not as powerful and no documentation or community presence; the other had a lot higher barrier to entry, but the sky was the limit, with a large support community and documentation. I feel like Joomla was the former.
Blogger: I have used blogger the most for my own ranting. It has more drawbacks than positives, but I always felt like the Google tie-in would be great for promoting niche content. I am not sure I could use blogger the same way I plan to use the other systems: by harnessing as few databases as possible. If I have to manually input content into 50 databases or UIs, this will never work, (not that it is likely too work anyway.)
Tumblr: I LOVE tumblr. But the SEO barriers are a tough sell. Additionally, I just can’t imagine using for non-micro-blogging. I think people are including 2000 word posts, but I will have to think about it.
Django: Built on top of Python, which I know.
As a web project manager, I tend to leave the cutting edge technical knowledge to the actual production team. This site should help me lean HTML/CSS best practices and new trends.
As for new trends, I want to have a sandbox feature that allows me to just build something using new techniques just for the sake of learning. Something like a HTML 5 video player page. Or CSS 3 animation.
Image sprites. I don’t know a damn thing about them, but I want to learn about them, and evaluate if they would be right for this project, and then use them regardless just to learn about them (maybe in only one CMS…)
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General idea collection post for the next iteration of this site: