Here we go again with the website thing.

I have discovered that after wrangling with interaction design and usability all day I am not at all interested in doing more of the same when I get home. However I do like having a web presence. As such, whatever I use for web publishing needs to be super simple or I just won’t do it. Imagine that, a usability engineer advocating simplicity. Shocking, isn’t it?

So the last iteration of humanpackmule.com was in Joomla. Granted Joomla is rather powerful CMS structure and yes I still use it for my Koi club website (www.pkwsonline.com) but the admin tools are clunky and a bit of a pain to get setup. Once you learn it it goes rather smoothly but the ramp was a bit higher than I liked. Mostly due to the fact that once I get home my motivation to continue working drops considerably. Available themes are ok, but it will take more effort than I want to expend to learn the structure to code my own themes. I found myself just finding themes and making do by tweaking.

In short, I am just like the users I design for.

This leads me to Wordpress. I’ve dabbled with it and a simple blogging tool appears to fit the bill. We’ll see how this goes.