Previously, we were using a hacked together “content management system” (CMS) to maintain this site. We had integrated WordPress for blogging, but all the pages were stored in separate files. Keeping things updated was a pain in the ass.

In order to simplify things, we wanted to move the whole site and blog into a unified CMS. We tried Mephisto, and it’s pretty nice, but we didn’t want to be tied to using Ruby on Rails, which Mephisto is built on.

We can run WordPress almost anywhere, easily, and inexpensively. There’s also a ton of info for hacking WordPress on the Web. PHP is pretty weak compared to Python or Ruby, but that doesn’t really matter for this purpose.

The theme for the site is being developed by Wyatt and is available for download via Subversion (you might need to log in with username:password guest:guest):

We may have introduced some broken links or other problems during this change. If you notice anything, please let us know.