Tales of a Designer

Comfort Level

About a year and a half ago, when I created my first blog site, I loved it. At that point, I wasn’t too familiar with the complete functionality of what blog sites could actually offer. But once I started getting into blogging, and more or less studying other blog sites and CMS’s, then I became extremely curious on how much I could actually get out of a site. Once I learned that, the blog site that I was using simply was not enough, and I started to write less.

So what I’m wondering is, how comfortable do you have to be with your own site to want to contribute to it often? This was a question that just randomly popped in my head, but I think I know how that happened. Over that past year, I have been also maintaining a personal blog, and just as of last week, it functions the way that I’ve always wanted it to function. Even though I don’t have a finished design for it yet, I still love the site, and almost feel like I want to write everyday. Why? Because it feels comfortable contributing to a site that works exactly the way I want it to.

I can’t say that I’m 100% to that point with this site, but I can say that I am not too far away. Over the next few months I plan on playing around alot with this Movable Type to learn it a little more and try integrating some different features into it. I have only been using Movable Type for a couple months, so I’m no expert quite yet. But the more I learn the system, the better I will be at making the site function the way I want it to. It would also help if I was a programmer.

For the past [almost] year, my personal blog site has been powered by WordPress and I can say that I feel completely comfortable using it. On top of that, I just upgraded it to the latest version, and I think I like it even more than I did before. So this is going to be no comparison on which CMS is better, I just need to learn Movable Type the way that I know WordPress, and then I will be throwing tags around in no time in order to shape it into the beast that I envision.

So again, does comfort level with your site play a roll in how much you actually use your site? If your site doesn’t function the way that you want it to, will you use it as often as you had planned before you created the site? I think it plays a roll for me. Maybe it is easier to write for a personal site, who knows, but I will get to the level that I want with this site, then I will judge.