I vote for the latter.

I initially wasn’t able to find the right way to convert my personally crafted web design into a WordPress (open source blogging software) theme… and now I have. While this blog is new, it was always my goal to use WordPress because it gives me more ability to customize and enhance it.

Plus WordPress produces “valid code” meeting web standards. I’d previously taken the time to write my hand coded (home page, contact page, etc.) pages XHTML 1.0 Strict and it annoyed the heck out of me to go to validate my source code produced by Blogger and find 277 validation errors in it.

I like it. Blogger was good. It’s what got me interested in web design in the first place as opposed to merely writing, which I’ve always enjoyed. This has much better features.

Google Blogger has no way of publishing recent comments, properly sorted, in the sidebar for anyone who uses their own website design as a template.

The “New Blogger” supports this, but I like keeping my own style (such as it is).

So what I’ve done is created a second Blogger blog, had Blogger forward my comments from my main “real” blog to my Google Gmail address, and, from there, Gmail forwards them to my new Blogger blog’s publish-by-email feature and automatically publishes them as if they were posts.

Then, I grab the RSS xml feed “feed” from that blog, run it through a Javascript called “Hearsay” developed by Greg from Freshblog, and voila, recent comments.
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Well, I moved away from the template and designed what you see.

Of course I used and modified others’ code in a lot of cases. Like the navigation tabs at top. Thanks Stu Nicholls of CSSplay.

I used a text editor. In other words, something like Windows Notepad. Very cool.

A few years ago, I didn’t know more than how to use a computer to make a good resumé and now, I’ve a decent site on the net and I know how it works.

Except for the parts published by Blogger, it validates as valid XHTML and CSS. I think it looks good.

So yes, I’m proud of myself today. Now to put it to good use.

The exact wording of my mission is a proprietary secret and besides, it could change. I came up with this wording while writing this website.

But it has the the words, “… salesman, helping other people succeed,” in it.