The Red Realm

I found a new audio player plugin for WordPress that is much more flexible than the one I was using and it degrades beautifully in browsers that don’t support it, just appearing as an mp3 link. So I hope you enjoy the new feature as much as I do.

I’m really touched that this site has been welcomed by many all over the world. I see the stats and I’m amazed by what I’ve been able to accomplish. I want to thank everyone that’s made a contribution and hope that more can be a part of this.

Art and music should be seen and heard by everyone.

This website was first created with a CMS (Content Management System) called Light N Easy. It’s a great script for creating a website. The only downside is that I ended up having a bunch of scripts installed separately to make the site work. I loved the layout it had and the functionality but it was becoming stale. I looked into new options hoping to incorporate new functionalities to create a better experience. I tried many things. From big name CMS to smaller ones and even social networking solutions. What I wanted doesn’t exist and requires too much hacking of scripts to make it and I didn’t have much time to work on that level of coding.

Why WordPress? Well, I use WordPress for my personal website iniara.com. It’s easy to update and change layout without breaking the content. The problem I’ve had in the past with my website is that every time I hand coded a new layout, it was a tedious task to update the site. I don’t remember when but sometime 3 years ago or so I installed WordPress for the first time and I’ve been using it ever since. It’s beyond a blogging tool, it can be used for so many things and keeps everything nice and organized.

Around November last year I noticed The Red Realm was broken. The database went kapoot! I don’t know what happened and I didn’t really feel like looking into it so I rushed my plans to work on the site’s make over. WordPress was already installed so I decided to give it a go. Once everything looked nice, I started adding the content little by little during the holidays.

Although the website is essentially the same in form, the back end allows me much more freedom to evolve and it’s also nice to keep all my scripts in one folder with easy access.

Why am I explaining this? I’ve been involved in many forum discussions related to CMS and scripts and people have found this site thanks to that. This post is an explanation to why the site is now powered by WordPress. I thought this might be of use to someone. :)