A few days ago, I came across this new blogging platform, Silvrback. I have moved some of my posts from my site that was self hosted on WordPress.

As much as I appreciate the features WordPress offers, I have been thinking of moving my portfolio site for a few reasons.

I already have a site that a friend and I update that's also a WordPress site (socksonanoctopus.com). For that site, it's updated daily with content in addition to updating plugins, cleaning out spam comments and other things that come with managing a WordPress site. And I planned on writing more on my portfolio site, but never really had enough time to do that between full-time work, updating the other site, brushing up and learning some new skills, blogging for this site just never happened. And if there's anything that I don't like most is having an item to do and not getting it done.

Instead of letting my site collect dust, I thought, if I moved my site to a different blogging platform, then that would stop me from constantly changing the theme and tweaking it so much and actually write. Not that I don't like taking a peek at how something was coded in a theme or how a layout was done in CSS. I certainly enjoy it, but a goal of mine was to write more in 2014 rather than tweaking themes all the time.

Another reason for moving to Silvrback is because it seemed to cover the basics of what I was looking in a replacement platform. The bio page is pretty nice. It's like a mini resume/LinkedIn so there's no need to write a lengthy bio page just so it doesn't look so empty and then a separate project/portfolio page.

The move wasn't too painful. Some of the items I had listed in my portfolio I didn't transfer over because it seemed similar to others I already listed in my portfolio or it was outdated/didn't exist anymore. Plus, I didn't have that much content to transfer over.

One thing I did have to get used to was writing in Markdown instead of writing in HTML. Sometimes I still catch myself typing HTML.