As I mentioned in Not my permanent home I wanted to look around a bit before committing to a CMS. I tend to see blogger as a great place to throw things together in a fast and temporary way, but if I want to make this blog into something really great, I want to move it to my own server.
Here's the thing, though--I'm a perfectionist. And a nerd. Combined, it's a lethal combination.
So tonight I got sidetracked (which, btw, reminds me of Kevin Macdonell's excellent blog post "There's no such thing as wasted time"), and instead of putting together something for my research summary on the donor management tool we've been working on, I found myself pouring through a report from Idealware called Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone.
Yeah, I'm a real party animal in the off season.
Anyway, it seems as though I'll read a bit about WordPress and be sold on it...then I get swayed to Joomla, and then Drupal starts looking good. I can feel this tingling sensation of perfectionism kicking in, and I know from experience that I could lose hours or days just combing through reviews, and available add-ins, and...well...overthinking things.
My solution to this is that I've saved the Idealware report, I'll download WordPress first, and test drive a set up. I'll ask a couple people I know if they're happy with what they use. But for tonight, I'm tossing this all up here on my blogger account and saving it as evidence of the journey. It'll all still be right here when I want it, and it'll wait.
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Hi Jen, thanks for the compliment. One thought on perfectionism, from Voltaire's Dictionnaire Philosophique (1764): "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien." Literally translated as "The best is the enemy of good," but more commonly cited as "Perfect is the enemy of the good." My own blog is a bit on the ugly side, but I knew I just wanted to do it, and (maybe) worry about presentation later!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kevin! (And I especially appreciate the quote; I tend to collect really good quotes, so I'll definitely add that to my stash. One I've been repeating lately is "Do more things badly"--SARK. I found an article where she elaborates: "For instance, meditation works even when you do it badly. And that goes for everything else. Once again, most of us aren’t just procrastinators, but we’re perfectionists, too. We don’t even try new things because we might be any good at them. Guess what? It’s fun to take dance lessons—even if you’re not good. Not everything you try may turn out to be fun, but don’t futurize to stop yourself, because of your perfectionism."
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