Ummm… is this thing on?
This is my first post on WordPress. After 6 years of blogging via a primitive hand-coded HTML webpage, this is a little freaky. The WordPress user interface is sleek and crowded, with an array of buttons and links flanking the actual writing area, which accommodates 10 lines of text at one time. It’s intimidating. On the toolbar above the writing area, there is a button, “Show/Hide the Kitchen Sink.” I’m petrified to click it.
My words may have been fine and sweet for HTML, but this is WordPress. The big league.
So anyway, for 6 years I’ve really focused on blogging for the sake of writing. I viewed blog ornamentation like comments, tagging, trackbacks, etc. as being distractions to my writing. I can’t say exactly why I’ve changed my mind/given in and moved to WordPress, but I’ve known for a while that it was inevitable, and every month that I delayed the move resulted in another HTML page with a block of 28-31 separate pieces of my writing, hand-coded into my archives and essentially lost to posterity.
Might take me a while to get off the ground with WordPress. I would like to try to move my precious archives to this site and back-date each entry, a process that could take another 6 years. Stay with me.
