Comments on: The past and future of dsandler.org. (Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love WordPress.) http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress a beautiful blog by daniel sandler Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:03:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: toastup! ≈ archives » Colophon http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-89552 toastup! ≈ archives » Colophon Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:40:43 +0000 http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress#comment-89552 [...] The toastup! blog is powered by WordPress, which I have been using since 2004 (earlier still if you count b2). The blog’s current (2007) design is based heavily on the ubiquitous Hemingway. The typefaces used in the original “toastup!” logotype are ATF Antique (the slab-serif freefont used in the toastycode logo) and Avenir.  The toast depicted is whole wheat bread, toasted to a level 3 darkness in an Oster two-slice silver toaster oven, spread with orange marmalade. [...] [...] The toastup! blog is powered by WordPress, which I have been using since 2004 (earlier still if you count b2). The blog’s current (2007) design is based heavily on the ubiquitous Hemingway. The typefaces used in the original “toastup!” logotype are ATF Antique (the slab-serif freefont used in the toastycode logo) and Avenir.  The toast depicted is whole wheat bread, toasted to a level 3 darkness in an Oster two-slice silver toaster oven, spread with orange marmalade. [...]

]]> By: Emil Sit » Colophon, the beginning http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-2388 Emil Sit » Colophon, the beginning Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:50:13 +0000 http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress#comment-2388 [...] I’ve been thinking about having a blog for a while and now here I have one with my own domain name running on outsourced hosting. That doesn’t really seem like me–I usually like to have more control–but I think Dan Sandler has really summarized the whole argument: it’s a lot of work to have featureful blog software and if someone else has done it, well, that’s less time spent building scaffolding. [...] [...] I’ve been thinking about having a blog for a while and now here I have one with my own domain name running on outsourced hosting. That doesn’t really seem like me–I usually like to have more control–but I think Dan Sandler has really summarized the whole argument: it’s a lot of work to have featureful blog software and if someone else has done it, well, that’s less time spent building scaffolding. [...]

]]> By: Taking Your Camera on the Road » WordPress and Other Blog Details http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-1283 Taking Your Camera on the Road » WordPress and Other Blog Details Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:38:47 +0000 http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress#comment-1283 [...] 17;s How to Build Blog Traffic for Newbies DSandler’s How I [...] [...] 17;s How to Build Blog Traffic for Newbies DSandler’s How I [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-86 Anonymous Fri, 07 Jan 2005 07:01:02 +0000 http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress#comment-86 <strong></strong> Writing blog software can be tough...
Writing blog software can be tough…

]]> By: a million monkeys typing http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-6 a million monkeys typing Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:09:25 +0000 http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress#comment-6 <strong>dsandler.org: Its past & future</strong> Most people that start off blogging seem to arbitrarily choose whatever solution they trip across first, or whichever one seems like the least work. I actually started a "home-grown" solution via Flash and XML, which worked fine after I figured out s... dsandler.org: Its past & future
Most people that start off blogging seem to arbitrarily choose whatever solution they trip across first, or whichever one seems like the least work. I actually started a “home-grown” solution via Flash and XML, which worked fine after I figured out s…

]]> By: Glofton http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-4 Glofton Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:56:31 +0000 http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress#comment-4 <strong>Why Wordpress?</strong> Dan Sandler switches to Wordpress, and sums up nicely what's so good about the software: It just works. I, too, have been dabbling with all sorts of gargantual web application frameworks, CMS systems, simple blogging applications, everything. Ye... Why Wordpress?
Dan Sandler switches to Wordpress, and sums up nicely what’s so good about the software:

It just works.

I, too, have been dabbling with all sorts of gargantual web application frameworks, CMS systems, simple blogging applications, everything. Ye…

]]> By: Guess and Check http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-2 Guess and Check Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:02:03 +0000 http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress#comment-2 <strong>Dan stops worrying</strong> dsandler made the switch to WordPress. Very nicely done. Dan stops worrying
dsandler made the switch to WordPress.

Very nicely done.

]]> By: a million monkeys typing » dsandler.org: Its past & future http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-5 a million monkeys typing » dsandler.org: Its past & future Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress#comment-5 [...] would form a million monkeys typing. Now, there’s a new entry over at dsandler.org: <a href="http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-wordpress" class="external-link">The past and future of dsandler.or [...] [...] would form a million monkeys typing. Now, there’s a new entry over at dsandler.org: The past and future of dsandler.or [...]

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