For a very long time now I have been meaning to work on my website which has gone through various versions of crapola ever since I tore the old one down years ago. There are various reason why I’ve procrastinated for so long, mostly the fact that outside of work where I was a lead frontend developer I would rather spend any free time on my Artwork rather than work on more code. That being said I have actually developed the site several times using combos of WordPress, Expression Engine and Kohana but would always get to a point where I was unsatisfied.
I have now decided as far as the backend goes the site will be a combo of Kohana with WordPress sitting under /blog as I only want to use WP as a blog not exploit it as a CMS. The core of the site will be Kohana using both traditional Controllers and a custom “fallback” controller for serving pseudo static content – that way I can have an unlimited amount of micro sites and projects some as simple as a single static view or ones that run under Controller(s).
The other thing that holds me back is style, well not being able to decide on style. This has lead me to the conclusion that Id rather start the site off with no style (well very minimal style).
KISS Keep It Simple Stupid Will appear quite similar to a browser default apart from a few layout and typography tweaks is quite minimal, a nice simple core that can be enhanced further with other themes. I quite like the idea of a minimal style which wont compete with the actual artwork I want to display. In the future I plan on making other themes so they can be switched etc similar to the good old Zen Garden.
Once KISS is finalized I’ll add an additional theme variant SSIK Second Style: Inverse KISS (inverted colours) before adding other pretty themes.
