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Finally… Something appears!

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updateAnd it’s an awesome post! Or maybe not…

Anyhow… I finally got around to actually doing something on the site. Over the past weeks, I have been adding galleries and an article or two, one of which is basically the combined blogs of when we were doing work in our apartment, and the other is the blog that I did from our holiday in Canada in 2012.

About the article on Canada: it’s been sitting in my Evernote since, well, basically since we came back from Canada. All the time, I had the intention of posting it to my site, but never really did it. Mostly because of a lack of time, but also every time I saw it, I saw how quickly jotted down some days were, and I realized that I would have to change that a bit. And finally I did, however, I do realize that some parts of it are not really proper sentences, but hey, it gets the message across.

I hope to get some more blogs out on a kind of more regular interval, but we’ll see how it goes.

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Welcome to BenWeb

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MasswelcomematHello and welcome to BenWeb!

I started my first site back in 2001, when I spent a year in Canada on an exchange. That site slowly evolved from a “monthly diary” to something more akin of a blog. After a while, it became clear to me that manually editing HTML files was a bit tedious. So I started looking for a CMS and found one in the shape of e107. This was in 2004, or something.

e107 really is nice, and it served me well for nearly a decade, but, unfortunately, development has slowed quite a bit, and the new version (v2) has been in development for nearly 6 years now, with not a clear date of release in sight. So, the time came for me to switch to something new.

Having helped a friend in setting up her own blog (LIMWZ Beauty Blog), as she is not that technical, I started to work with WordPress and was quite impressed. It does have a lot of options and plugins, that seem to be able to mimic what I want/need in my site.

Having found a theme, Customizr, I started fiddling around with plugins, testing, and trying. I am used to being able to customize who gets to see what in e107, but WordPress does not seem to offer that kind of functionality out of the box, so the search was on for more plugins.

To make a long story short: you are looking at the current end-result. There will definitely be some more tweaking, and updating, and posting, and trying, but you, as the reader, should not notice that.

Now I just need to start looking into my old sites and find out if there is stuff that I want to “migrate” to this site… Oh well… Gives me something to do after work…

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