vincent bidaux  freelance web and application design

My talented sister had a blog on Blogger. As cool as Blogger can be, there’s a moment when you need a bit more, you want your own domain without leaving your registrar, you want amazing stats with Analytics, you don’t want to be restricted for the layout… So I moved her to my dedicated pro server and put the whole thing under Wordpress.

Wordpress is amazing, still. Retrieving of the old content, including categories, tags and comments, was flawless. Layout setup has been a piece of cake. Akismet setup and basic needed plugins, installed in a snap. And I finally got to test my Typekit demo account on this project, so the blog displays some @font-face nice fonts from Typekit without the need of Cufont or Fl-/Sifr.

And voilà! A web project that comes with already made quality content is way more motivatiing than having to do the same with nothing, placeholders or latin crap… if clients were aware of the much better quality they would obtain by crating real content, massive content by advance, as we request, they won’t hesitate to do so, never… and actually, it’s never the case.

Thanks to Santu for (always) helping me on managing domains, subdomains and users on my server, and for not yelling at me when I cry for help after missing not less than a digit in the DNS setup (lame, shame).