I eventually decided that i would start a blog that would document various things I do, if not for everyone, but myself. Numerous times over the past year I have felt I wanted to write long posts about certain topics that I meet, but haven’t had a medium to do so. The search for a blogging platform began!<\/p>\n
I looked at a various amount of platforms, such as blogger or blog.com but in the end decided to go with wordpress. I decided that it included so many wonderful features that I should defiantly go with it.<\/p>\n
I really like\u00a0the\u00a0configurable options, and the ability to install it on any site I want, specifically my chewett.co.uk domain was really nice. For the first time in the last ~4 years it doesn’t have \u00a0“In work” as the main page!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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