Back in the day, I started orangefever and its previous incarnations (which were on free webspace sites like Tripod) writing plain old HTML. I guess I had a blog, but it really consisted of: “I added links”, or “My links are under construction”. It was really low tech, and I didn’t really know what to do with it aside from flexing my design aspirations.

Then, things progressed and becamse what we now call blogs. I wrote my own blog software because I was picky and wanted to do my own adjustments. At the same time, free software packages became better and better, WordPress became de-facto over Blogger, but yet I resisted moving to an established blogging solution. And I don’t think I ever will.

But what this blog is really about, is that I think it will become increasingly difficult to create your own website from scratch. Sure, it’s not too hard nor time consuming to write something that achieves what I have written now, but if you’re trying to write a web2.0-like website, it would take forever! Fortunately for us, this web 2.0 movement has matured the blog (and in general, web design) community so now we have libraries to call upon to do our dirty work.

So I have started working on orangefever 5.0, which will be a web 2.0 version of orangefever. I would love to make it all shiny and interesting, but I can’t really figure out how to integrate all these new bells and whistles into something useful!

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: orangefever, web2.0