A Blog, Reborn

I’ve finally gotten around to setting up a blog for myself again. This time round, based on auxesis’ suggestion, I’ve gone with using Jekyll instead of the usual Wordpress fare.

Jekyll is a Ruby-based blog engine, that spits out a static site based on a collection of html/markdown/template files. It’s taken me longer to get it up and running, but I think it will be easier to maintain and customise over the long term.

Since my blog is static, I’ve outsourced comments and trackbacks to Disqus. Also, I’ve used the lovely Cufón to embed custom fonts into the page for my headings. I used Blueprint as a starting point for my CSS, to get a quick layout going, as well as to take advantage of the resetting and typography stuff.

I’m not sure whether I’m going to attempt to migrate content from my old blog. However, that content by now is years old.