Incremental and revolutionary change

We are working slowly at tweaking the blogJOG but have also decided on a radical change in direction for developing the GregMaine.Com home page. The blogJOG is “powered” by the open-source on-line publishing software known as Wordpress and we are slowly changing, enhancing, adjusting the pre-formated “delivered” theme (an open-source product from wpdesigner.com, see link in this page’s footer). This development work is satisfying the primary goals of these projects: (1) provide the GregMaine.Com IT dept. with experience and understanding of web-based technologies and the WordPress package, in particular, in preparation for supporting the coming credit union’s deployment of a modern web presence (as compared to the simple existence of today); (2) provide a web presence in support of the current and future communication and revenue needs; (3) provide a reason for the IT department to have their own laptop; and (4) provide the IT department, and blogGrok, specifically, with something to do in his chair while “American Idiots” is on.

So, consistent with these ways and means, we have decided to discontinue the use of the conventional web page design and development approach for the GregMaine.com home page (use of a simple web-page builder software and tweaking from there) and leverage our growing comfort-level with WordPress and use it to deploy the GregMaine.com home page as well.

So, in the next few weeks while we are waiting for our income tax refunds and the Economic Stimulus package: “lets-give-everybody-money-and-maybe-they-wont-complain-or-notice-we-are-running the-economic-future-of-the-country-into-the-ground” funds, we will offer you a new web site for GregMaine.com.