I am dating myself with this post, but what can you do – I am old. I recently found an article I wrote in 2003 (with the help of my wife to ensure it made sense) for Macromedia’s Edge Online Newsletter, titled “Save Time with CSS and Dreamweaver MX .”

This was the first thing I had ever really wrote for an audience, so I was nervous and excited. That with the fact that I am not the best at spelling much less writing, as you can see from reading this post. I had a client that made a statement years ago that stuck with me:

“Girlfriend can draw, but she sure can’t write.”

This was in response to some technical requirements that I put together, he was right – but I digress.

I have always loved playing soccer, somewhere along the lines, I just stopped playing and lost interest. Then I was invited to a DC United match at RFK, and found the love for the sport again.

Soon after attending my first DC United match I acquired season tickets for Second Nature Studio and our clients, for something new to do and became a fan of the sport again as I once was.
After attending so many games I decided, maybe I can still play, so at the age of 35, I decided to give it a try. A friend who played indoors invited me to play one night. It was exhausting and I threw up after the first half, but it was really fun & I wanted more of it.

I have been searching and looking at simple to use content management systems for awhile now. I have worked with many different content management systems over the years and found that were things I loved about some of them and things I absolutely hated.

Without mentioning names here are the reasons that I have gone with Wordpress for my content management system of choice.

1. Valid CSS & XHTML – I can’t stress how important this is for me as a designer and programmer. Using industry standards and valid markup makes my job so much easier. It also allows me to format things the right way and ensure that as content is added that formatting is kept (if the client leverages this in the end) but none the less this is something that is important to Wordpress and Wordpress developers.