Who Needs Comments?

I am using a program called RapidWeaver to maintain my site now. It's fairly flexible, and its not tied to a specific hosting setup like iWeb was. iWeb was nice. It was easy to use, but managing uploads of changes to a website was tedious unless you were using a dotMac account. RapidWeaver is more flexible in maintaining your site, and appears to have a great community effort behind it, as well as a lot of great theme creators. It handles publishing just the changes, and allows you to mark things as not changed too. So you could, for example, work on multiple parts of the site at the same time, but only publish the changes that you want. That could prove quite useful.

So, now I have my site basically setup, and I sent an e-mail to several folks I know who used to frequent it, and let them know that I finally managed to update it. Then, I find that the navigation I am using is not as intuitive as I would like it to be. For some reason, when someone clicked the photo albums link, they expected to see photo albums right there in the main content area. Well, I knew this going in, but in an effort to get the site out there more quickly, I opted to not do that. Well, I am changing that now, and I think the result will be a lot better.

For now, I don't have comments enabled on my blog. I have done this for a few reasons, but mainly, I don't want the hassle of it. If you want to send me a comment, e-mail me. Everyone can still send me comments, but they are not there for the world to see. This has two benefits. One, it saves me from having to screen comments (I don't spam comments, and I don't want comments with questionable language), and two, it gives readers who want to comment anonymity, so maybe they'll be more apt to send me a comment. I don't expect to have anything on here that will send someone into a fit of anger, but you never know. So, to maintain the dignity of my site from a potential hideous comment flame-war, I have opted to not have comments enabled.