Welcome to Wordpress

I have started using Wordpress to manage this site instead of my home-brew system, ProntoType.

I built ProntoType because I needed sub-categories. Wordpress has sub-categories. ProntoType also had another unique feature. Categories could have custom data fields associated with them. There were good reasons for this. For example: in my Wine category you could search by the type of wine, the label, vintage, or any of the other data types.

Another example is the weblog category in ProntoType. This is where I point out interesting articles or sites on the web and ProntoType had a specific field for the URL so that it could be consistently presented.

I switched to WordPress mainly because I wanted to update the look of the site and my style sheet was a nightmare. It was easier to switch CMS, select a theme, and customize it…I think.