Creative Juices 4.0. Bigger, Stronger and Now With Moxie!
If you haven't noticed, the site had gone though it's fourth major revision, since I originally launched back in 2005. It's been a slow and painful process but instead of using some off-the-shelf solution for the site, I decided to write something completely new from the ground up. Why would I ever do this, you ask? Well, sit back and prepare yourself for a little story.
When I first launched, it was a very simple ColdFusion site. It didn't have a blog and it really didn't have any content management methods in place. Everything was hand coded and manually updated. It was time consuming, but it fit better with what I was trying to do. I could spotlight some of my clients, show some examples of my work and to provide some sample code to give back to the community. About 6 months after I launched, I soon realized that the site was taking more time to maintain than I had available. I had to come up with some sort of solution to let me focus on the content and not the code.