Yup, since my post a week or so ago about potentially joining the rest of the UK in joblessness (is that a word!?) things seem to have gone from bad to just plain hopeless at my full time employment.
Me spouting misery and woe at you is hardly constructive; my intention of this blog has always been to spur myself on, to push myself further and make some progress online, and I’m still determined to achieve that – despite the looming spectre of unemployment.
I’ve certainly not done as much as I’d liked, but I have made significant progress in developing my own little platform for launching products/sites, using what is essentially a CodeIgniter-based CMS. I know most people would prefer to take a generic off-the-shelf or pre-packaged CMS system, tweak it, and publish it and make instant money, but unfortunately I lack the traffic, the flair, and the confidence to do that. Maybe I’m wierd, I don’t know, but I just don’t feel comfortable using WP to setup a site, I’d want it to appear and function like a completely “written from scratch” website, without a hint of WP.
One of the other reasons I’m spending some time developing my own is to become more proficient at coding, at the same time I’ll have a better understanding of what my own system can do without having to learn how WP (or a CMS of some kind) works, and most important of all the code would suit me, would suit what I want to achieve with affiliate marketing. I’m hoping to have a platform that will enable me to launch sites quickly without too much effort, and will look different to the usual WordPress-style offerings.
Don’t get me wrong, WP has it’s uses, and the new version is very impressive; I love the simple plugin management and i can only dream of designing a dashboard like WP 2.7’s for my own half-baked attempts, but it still lacks certain features that I feel are necessary for my particular projects, and I don’t have the time or inclination to develop plugins or mods for WP.
So, I’ll continue to mush on, and I promise to try and post some useful stuff on here instead of my whining drivel. 