Welcome to the new Jameseunson.com. The new site is using wordpress as the CMS and it’s actually working out a lot better than I expected. Props to wordpress for being pretty darn flexible. The wordpress I’m running includes every bell and whistle I could find to improve the functionality of the thing as a whole including Recent Posts, Similar Posts, Auto XML sitemap. Honestly, if there’s any shortcomings of wordpress I’ve encountered so far, it’s that many of these plugins aren’t implemented in the original code but I seem to recall at least sitemaps are coming in a revision in the near future.

As an aside, the theme creation mechanism is also pretty easy to grasp once you get your head around it. By far the best resource for it is http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/ – an epic tutorial spanning 16 pages, covering in painstaking detail the process of creating a theme. Props to Small Potato, author of the tutorial and former admin of the wpdesigner.com site before it started to circle to proverbial bowl. Combined with the resources a simple google search yield on the subject, creating a theme is much easier than it otherwise would be.

The content for all pages is complete – it’s pretty brief but I don’t want to fill an entire site talking about myself – the purpose of this blog is more sharing information than ‘Dear diary today I had a chicken sammich…’ etc, and the purpose of the work pages is just to give a brief overview of the thoughts, goals and any future intentions for each of the projects listed. The idea is to give a little context to each project and help further understand them, if the reader is so inclined. If they aren’t then the power of not-reading-prerogative is quite conveniently at their disposal.

Thanks for visiting and stay tuned for some quality stuff.