Neil Duckett

Now i’ve switched over to WordPress i need to find a theme suitable for what i want to do. I can gaurantee i won’t settle on the first so expect to see plenty of iterations over the next few weeks.

Why the change to WordPress you ask? It has a softer more rounded look about it would be my way of describing it. The tools used for developing and maintaining the site are built around ease of use, something that appeals to me greatly.

Like i said i’m still in the infancy stages of setting up the new blog so you can expect to see plenty of content being added in the near future. I’ve got a steep learning curve with editing CSS as opposed to HTML, which to a web developer wouldn’t be difficult at all but i’m a mere part time blogger with a keen interest to learn more about all things internet so it’s a steep learning curve for me!

Definitions courtesy of Wikipedia.

The phrase Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. The term became popular following the first O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004,^[1] and has since become widely adopted.

Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to Web technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the web as a platform. According to Tim O’Reilly, “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.”^[2]

Some technology experts, notably Tim Berners-Lee, have questioned whether one can use the term in a meaningful way, since many of the technology components of “Web 2.0″ have existed since the early days of the Web.^[3]

WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog, developed by Michel Valdrighi.

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