trisweb.com

trisweb.com is going to undergo a complete overhaul in the coming weeks. It’s not just the weblog — that’s just the beginning. The design is updated, of course (see 3 posts back), but the code is going to dramatically change as well. No more separate static web site. I’ll be designing and implementing a custom PHP content management system, and I’ll move everything into a MySQL database.

The reason weblogs work is that they’re easy to update. There are other reasons of course (on which I’m writing an article for later), but that’s a big one. If you had to update a static HTML page every time you wanted to add a post, would you even bother? I mean, weblogs wouldn’t exist — the human race is too inherently lazy! My friend Jake started a blog with a simple CGI script that added his post to an HTML file, and eventually improved it all the way up to a custom PHP blog program (with some nice features I might add, like comment stats). It’s simple, but it’s very robust, and it makes it easy for him to add content. I want to do the same thing to all the static content that currently resides on “triswebpage” (I’m ditching that name, by the way) so that it gets more attention from me, who will not edit code to make frequent changes to my web site.

You’ll see the blog and some secondary pages get the new look first (this week), followed (maybe much later) by the deep content. Trust me, it’ll be cool when it’s done.