--- layout: post title: ! 'Announcing: José Mota — New breakthrough.' tags: - Miscellaneous status: publish type: post published: true meta: _edit_last: '1' --- Today I officially launch my blog revamp, after a series of hosting and domain issues. I decided to buy a new yet similar domain and host it in a trustful company.

So what's new anyway?

New theme series

As you may recall, the previous series of theming were named after the purple gem, Amethyst. This time I baptize this series with a different gem color, namely Amber. I chose browns and yellows to resemble a different level of distinction and so I traded the mysterious nature of the purple for a more determined and sleeker brown & yellow mix. Personally I enjoyed the soft grunge touch to it, it really pushes it up a notch. I also tried to emphasize the content in a way that's readable, simple and efficient. At least when I read a post, it makes me feel comfortable.

Back to Wordpress

Yes, you heard me: I ditched Drupal in favor of Wordpress. But then you ask:

Are you of your freaking mind? First you use Wordpress, then Drupal and now Wordpress back again??

Drupal was giving me a lotta headaches just for building a blog and a portfolio. If it were something bigger, then perhaps I'd consider Drupal instead.
I must admit: Wordpress' editor is the best one I've ever seen. The media section is built right in and the whole admin area is just so much more inviting.
Wordpress also includes import/export features, which Drupal doesn't yet. Well, at least not this good, all I did was import the XML file, plain paste of the wp-content folder, configure the plugins and that's it.

Well, anything else?

I'm considering the hypothesis of inviting people to guest post along.
A screencast series would be an interesting idea, most likely on Rails or application engineering, and in Portuguese — there are plenty of them in English already.

That's it for today. I hope that this installation stays put for a long long time. Give your feedback if you are so kind.