Using Pre-Fab Template for Blog

I realized that the Alphaios-resembling Blogger template that I wrote was severely lacking as a blog template. Rather than try to correct the many, many areas in which it falls short, I've decided to just use one of the existing Blogger templates instead. I picked a blue one because...well, I like blue.

You may notice that this new template isn't perfect, either. (For one thing, the sidebar covers up code blocks.) Well, I don't really care. So...there.

News: Blog Merging with the News Updates.

If you recently used the usual http://alphaios.net link that I keep posting everywhere you may have noticed that you were automatically redirected to this blog. That is because, from now on, I want all visitors to the site to see the blog first. Why? Because I've officially abandon the very, very old static news page in favor of using the blog engine for posting updates.

For now the old news page can still be accessed at the same URL as before, but I will no longer be using it. I'll keep it up for a while so that older updates can still be accessed, at least until I can move those updates into the blog--or until they become so incredibly old that they no longer are relevant. (And that will be very soon...)

Also, the home page is still available as an "about" page from the house-shaped icon in the navigational bar.

The First Ever Alphaios.net Blog

For a long time now I have wanted a blog, but I hesitated to get one because I wanted to write it myself. And, I know, the whole point of a blog is to write in it yourself, but I wanted to write not only the content but the entire blogging engine itself. Not only that, but I wanted it to be fully integrated into my own CMS that I've been working on. In fact, I wanted the blog to be something that could be created using the CMS; like, you could add a new section to the site with the CMS interface, call the new section "My Blog" or whatever, give it whatever characteristics you wanted and then, *poof*, you have a blog.

Well, that didn't work out how I wanted. For one thing, I'm extremely indecisive when it comes to programming on a large scale project like a CMS. I have made a lot of progress with it and there is definitely a good start there, but with school and everything else I can't keep my mind wrapped around the complexities of the CMS's programming long enough to make important coding decisions.

So, hopefully this blog will do. I managed to make it look fairly well integrated with the site, so it should suffice for now.