First off: apologies if you just got your feed reader flooded with old posts, I was hoping to avoid that :|

Almost 1 year & 5 months after saying I was redesigning, I’ve finally taken the first step (well, zeroth, really).

I had started redoing the HTML & CSS, but Mephisto was a pain in the arse to do anything with. I was intending to roll my own CMS, but kept on getting sidetracked.

After recommendations from a bunch of peeps I’ve started using Enki, there have been a few snags getting started – migration from Mephisto didn’t seem to work, weird errors in the admin section – but I’ve managed to move all my old posts & comments over with the time-honoured copy & paste content migration technique.

So far Enki has been freakin’ awesome to customise – adding a ‘tagline’ was as easy as sticking it in the config file & whacking a config[:tagline] in my layout.

Hopefully redesigning will be just as easy – I’ve already got HTML templates & the CSS all done, so it should just be a matter of sticking it in.

I had also managed to completely break the admin section of Mephisto & couldn’t post any more, so hopefully I’ll actually start posting a bit more now :p