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julesjones ([personal profile] julesjones) wrote 2011-12-30 09:32 pm (UTC)

One of the reasons for doing the fanfic site was to experiment with using WP to build a website as opposed to a blog, on something that wasn't just a Noddy site but wasn't something I couldn't afford to muck up. Once I'd found a template that worked for me, I found it by and large fairly easy to use, with one exception -- the WP-hosted sites are so incredibly slow to refresh when you do something...

But for the profic site, I need to put it on my own domain, and that means I need to deal with the security angle. For which I need to talk to my hosting service, who happens to be a friend. :-) The other thing that concerns me is that I'm heavily into making a site accessible, specifically that it should be usable with keyboard commands only, because I know how bloody frustrating it is to navigate with Dragon on a site that uses javascript all over the place. So anything that makes a site unusable in Lynx is out, and I will have to make sure that I can do what I want using CSS only. I need to ask the screen-reader users how they find WP sites in comparison with static sites.

I mostly don't have a problem with updating the static site, because it's mostly, well, static. A new page gets added occasionally as something gets published, but most of the pages that once got updated regularly have been supplanted by LiveJournal and LibraryThing. What I think I might find WP good for is to refresh the CSS easily.


I also need to go and have a look at your new toy now that I'm home again and no longer camping on a flaky OpenZone connection. :-)

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