Trying this out

So I decided to look into using WordPress as a means to host my own site. iWeb does some kinda snazzy things, but I really like the extensibility and control that seems to come with WordPress. First I'm trying to go through and organize everything in a way that I think will flow well.  Currently I am thinking most dynamic information will just flow through this main page and I will use the categories to help people sift through if they are only interested in certain aspects of what I present on here.

I will probably then use additional pages to hold more static information (info about my photography setup and interests, links to external relevant sites, etc.) I may try to get it to where the static info appears in a sidebar and the dynamic shows in the main pane, but that may be redundant given the categorical listings that will be available.  I'm sure things will change around a lot in the coming months (especially since any time I change themes I will likely have to spend a good amount of time getting everything back in order) so we will see how it goes. Since it will kinda be all over the place, I may continue posting in my livejournal AND posting here (yes, I'm a glutton for punishment) for the next little bit as a transition phase.  Hopefully there is an easy way to import things from lj one entry at a time :-)

Below are some entries I'm working on importing. I set the post date on this post to be in the future so it will stay up here for a while. :-)  I'm trying to decide if I want to import everything from my lj here (might take a while to go through and fix the tagging) or just import some easy ones (likely import reading since it only has three posts and some of my travel posts).  Since I am still under the 1gig of storage I get for free on lj, most of my pics should stay intact, though it still feels a little sketchy to be linking back to them.  Regardless, I will be using LJBook to create a pdf archive of my lj blog.  You never know what might happen to your stuff when it sits in an account that you don't use very often.  At least, that way, I'll be guaranteed to have all my past blogs posts somewhere no matter what happens to LJ. :-) Things will all come together eventually!