A Note on the Slow Progress of timothyrchurch.com
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February 18th, 2008
So I’ve been a bit discouraged with my progress on this website lately. The development of this site, my personal website, has taken much longer than expected. I mean, it has been almost 6 months since I began, and I have yet to really tell anyone about it. But then, when I stopped to think about it, I realized that this site is doing exactly what I had hoped it would; it is serving its purpose as a sandbox for me to try out various web development techniques and get a breadth of experience with a number of webdev skills. Though it may be slow going now, as I become more familiar with these technologies and techniques, it will speed up my development in the future. Basically, I am getting the learning curve out of the way now.
Since I started this website in September 2007, here is a list of all the things I have had to learn/figure out:
- How to create and customize a Blogger blog
- How to convert a Blogger blog into a WordPress blog
- How to install WordPress and create a custom WordPress theme
- How to install “Google Apps for Your Domain“
- Create a custom search engine using Google Co-op
- Google Analytics
- Setting and reading cookies
- RSS feed specifications (how to build and parse a RSS 2.0 feed)
- How to syndicate an RSS feed through FeedBurner
- JQuery - Javascript framework
- Ajax – How to dynamically load part of a page through an Ajax call
And, hopefully, I will soon add these skills to my repertoire as well:
- XML Sitemaps
- Create a transparent favicon
- Dynamic RSS feeds (using PHP)
- Microformats - hResume
