A Website by Richard Feich

I updated my Wordpress installation and template to allow rotating or random imagery in the header block (above)–for now it’s set to random. If you reload this page you may see a new image in the header.  I say may because random does not necessarily mean different, since there are a fixed number of images in the header gallery, the same image could very possibly be reloaded sequentially.  Over time I’ll add and remove images from that gallery…just to keep things fresh. Maybe, I’ll throw-in some seasonal things as well. All of the photographs used are my own, and are copyright protected.

Welcome to a new development phase of my website at feich.com.  I decided to retire the old website and install a personal publishing system to allow me to maintain and update this website in a more timely fashion. I’m using a customized version of the very popular Wordpress…which I like very much. What is Wordpress? Here is a good description taken from the official Wordpress website:

Wordpress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

 I like Wordpress because it’s easy to use and customize, there are tons of themes and plugins available, and it has good support. Wordpress is really a Content Management System (CMS) geared towards blogging, however it can easily be configured for other purposes. In the last two years or so I have evaluated dozens of Content Management Systems…probably more then 35. I have used and extended many systems, and built a few as well. With this experience behind me, I selected Wordpress as my personal publishing platform.

I will continue to discuss the merits of Wordpress, as well as other CMS’s in later posts.

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