Well its taken a year or two, but I’ve finally found time to completely redesign Riversend. This will be the tenth incarnation of the site (if you can believe it), and I believe the ninth year of its existence. Looking back over all the blog posts from previous years, the thing that strikes me is not how I’ve changed over the course of this site’s existence, but how strangely similar my essential state of mind is (to wit: frenzied ecstatic, explosively tangential, creative-work obsessed mania).

Riversend version’s 8 and 9 were running on the CMS ModX, but this time I’ve gone for the currently ubiquitous blogging platform WordPress. More so that I could develop professional skills (i.e. wordpress is a nice easy CMS for web design clients), than for its functionality. Though I have found the system to be easily extendible and the core code well documented, with a thoughtful and clear architecture.