Why I Chose WordPress to HOST My SCIENCE Blog

Hello World! After noticing a few WordPress developers had followed me in Twitter, I just had to write up this blog post! ☺️

As a surprise to today’s WordPress developers & designers, I was an ALPHA & BETA TESTER of WordPress, as well as, Joomla content management systems! ☺️ That’s because I began developing HTML web pages in 1995, and kept improving on my skills, year after year. ☺️

Why HTML in 1995? Because I was already a computer programmer of the B.A.S.I.C., Assembly & C programming languages that began computer life with CompuServe, a dozen years earlier. I was initially offered to alpha test the Hotdog Web Designer program, before becoming a beta tester for Macromedia Dreamweaver software application. — This happened after I wrote my first HTML 3 webpage using Microsoft Notepad in the first release of Microsoft Windows 95, for posting my resume online. ☺️

During the early 2000s, I received eMail about testing an experimental database printing system, from a few commercial entities; WordPress & Joomla were among those in my inbox, but I cannot remember who came first. Why me? Because I was already running at least one GNU/Linux server in my home, and I became the primary testing candidate. Also, my development work with the C programming language had something to do with it. ☺️

In 2005, as I recall from my past livelihood in Seattle, I was running both WordPress & Joomla on my Red Hat Fedora GNU/Linux computer server, in while also working as a security officer for the apartment building I lived in. Though I originally preferred Joomla over WordPress, I found WordPress much easier to manage posted content BETTER, despite both were crashing my server at different times. Also, I had to deal with a variety of web browsers, some working well, some of which crashed my server. — Lots of memories! ☺️

Now that I’m totally BLIND, I heard WordPress content is mostly accessible by screenreaders, such as Google TalkBack & Apple Voiceover; I heard that from other BLIND users. And so, I decided to choose WordPress to host my SCIENCE blog, my final blog before I “vanish” from the online world, scheduled for later this year.

Nowadays, I find it kind of “encouraging” when current WordPress developers & designers follow me in Twitter, most of which are supporting WordPress for a profit. Yes, I miss those days of earning money from providing webmaster services to the public, so I know what today’s WordPress developers/designers are experiencing. Now, I’m the End User experiencing the free services of WordPress! ☺️

Thanks for reading my latest blog post! Have a Great Day!

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Happily-Married, comfortably poor, permanently disabled and totally BLIND. A Terrorism SURVIVOR that's still SURVIVING Terrorism + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Scientist since 1977, Acoustician since 1979, Computer Scientist/Programmer since 1982, Seismologist since 1988, Criminologist (Behavioral Scientist) since 1992, and many more! Also, had worked in two civilian and one military virology labs in the USA between 1993 and 2003. A Generation X, Filipino-American US expat, living in The Philippines, whom was naturally-born in Boston, grew up mostly in Seattle, some in Chicago, and have lived in Anchorage & San Francisco. Became permanently-disabled in 2003 due to health-related illness, ending my moonlighting career as an independent private investigator in the USA. RETIRED independent developer of computing & electronics technologies after 35 wonderful years, including 20 wonderful years in GNU/Linux development & 8 wonderful years as an independent embedded systems developer of digital electronics. Former speech synthesis systems developer of 30 wonderful years, specializing in foreign language phoneme-to-speech synthesis. Also was a beta tester of third-party software-based speech synthesizers. Former FCC-licensed amateur radio operator of 20 wonderful years, beginning with 2m packet-radio & AmSat communications between Anchorage & Manila. Former member of Anchorage Amateur Radio Club and Mike & Key ARC in Seattle. Learned 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing on a manual typewriter in 1980 at a US-based elementary school. Mastered 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing without looking at the keyboard in 1986. Now have osteoarthritis in both of my hands from all that touch-typing! My primary computer programming language is C, which I learned in 1990. My secondary programming language is B.A.S.I.C., which I self-learned in 1982. Prior to my sight-loss, I used to program in LISP/CLISP and Prolog for my early development of artificial intelligence & machine learning programs. Daily, to compensate/facilitate my sight-loss, I am actively using Apple iOS VoiceOver, Google Android TalkBack and Amazon Fire OS VoiceView screen-readers, in addition to my external Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard and sometimes, my Orbit Writer Braille keyboard, as HOBBIES.

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