This post was a long time coming but I started writing again recently. I have quite a few articles in draft here or on my computer.
But there are two big changes that have or are happening that will influence the future direction of the site:
First is that I just started a major clean up of my older content. Anyone new here or that knows me more for my WordPress work may not know that this site started in the mid 2000s and the focus of it was ColdFusion based blogging software but mostly Macromedia (Adobe) Fireworks. As I have not worked with ColdFusion in many years and Fireworks has long been abandoned by Adobe, that content was starting to feel really stale and irrelevant and there was quite a bit of link rot in it. So I have just drafted most of these in order not to confuse visitors and search engines on the actual focus of this site. This focus remains WordPress, web design and development best practices, product reviews and opinions from an agency founder still working in the trenches.
The second change is not so recent and I will write other more detailed posts on it but the toolset I have used to build sites for our personal projects and for my agency has changed significantly over a year ago. I moved all our work to Bricks Builder and have heavily invested in that ecosystem which enabled me to evolved my skills greatly in the last few months as well as build much more efficient sites for our clients. I also invested in the new kid on the block which is Etch and learning to use it as it’s nearing the 1.0 initial release.
But Bricks remains my main tool at this time and it shares two important elements I can also use with Etch in Automatic.css as well as Frames.
In other posts I will detail why I moved away from the GeneratePress/GenerateBlocks ecosystem I’ve used for years and even used the Kadence toolkit for a few sites where I needed better integration with WooCommerce among other things before I started using Bricks.
I think there’s never been a better time to work in WordPress in terms of the quality tools choices we have now but you have to select the right ones. The learning resources are also multiple and it becomes a matter of finding good ones which can be hard as there’s a lot of bad information out there as well as many false “experts” selling an illusion of building sites “easily” instead or doing them right. More on that to come as well.
Thanks to those who are still following my long neglected site. I felt for a long time that I had little of interest to say but this is changing now. As usual, as we’re nearing the end of another year, this time is one where I take more time to ponder things, directions, goals and next steps and this year is no different. Hang on, as time permits I will be writing again with a focus on shorter pieces I can get out faster. As I said, this site was long neglected but never abandoned!
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