Welcome to the new Bair.com website! For the past few years, I was running Bair.com on the Drupal content management system (CMS). Before then, I was manually creating HTML pages for the site (so 1990s!) When I initially made the move to a CMS-based site I considered several options to Drupal, including WordPress. But, at the time Drupal was clearly stronger in terms of module support and overall capabilities. Since then my needs have changed, and so have the open source CMS offerings.

When it comes to getting content online quickly and easily, WordPress has always been my preference. The problem was that WordPress was more limited in terms of customization and eCommerce capabilities. At the time, I had plans to sell some products directly from the Bair.com site. Now I’ve decided to focus the Bair.com site on content related to my consulting work and perhaps some related interests as well. So, my change in strategy for the site was a key motivator for the migration. But Drupal is not so bad at managing content, and it was already up and running – so why did I put in the effort to make the change? The answer is that the WordPress advantages in ease of use and ease of site management have become even greater with recent versions. (As of this writing, Bair.com is on WordPress 3.1.)

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