I’ve decided to give WordPress a whirl, as I’d like to get back to learning more about PHP. Seeing as WordPress is built around PHP & MySQL I think it’ll be beneficial to my University studies as it will allow me to learn more PHP while also enjoying myself blogging.

As the architecture behind WordPress is slightly different than Movable Type’s static pages, things will inevitably go missing and URL’s probably won’t work for a while. Hopefully this will be a temporary problem, as I’m sure with a bit of .htaccess tweaking or editing of the PHP I’ll be able to come up with a fix.

I’ll try and keep the feed location the same, but I’m not sure this will be possible, due to the way in which WordPress handles the feed. I’ll put a redirect in place to handle the change.

I want to apologise now for any problems you come across during the transition – Sorry.

Cost-Effective Website Acceleration Part 1 - Client Side Optimization — An article that looks at various tweaks and changes that you can make to your (X)HTML, CSS & JavaScript code to speed up your site.

Personally, I think parts 2 & 3 look to be more interesting than the first.