So it’s been a long time coming, but my blog is finally live.

The theme.

Always the control freak, I decided to roll my own theme. A redesign is already perpetually in the works, but I finally realized that obsessing over the design was getting in the way of the goal — blogging.

No doubt I’ll write more about that process in the future, but I’ll just mention some of the great resources and plugins I discovered along the way:

• Breadcrumb plugin
• Ultimate Tag Warrior
• SEO Title Tag
• more soon

Oh yeah, and the thing runs on (the excellent) Wordpress.

The plan.

Expect to see my general musings on web design and development, PHP, javascript, Stellent content management — especially Site Studio and IdocScript development — and whatever else strikes my short-attention-spanned fancy.

Stellent? Site Studio? IdocScript?

At my day job, I spend quite a bit of time and effort working with Stellent web content management solutions. Site Studio is Stellent’s site design and management tool, and IdocScript is their home-grown, server-side scripting language. Good information about Site Studio and IdocScript development can be difficult to find, so I plan to share some of my hard-won knowledge and solutions here. (Update: Oracle recently acquired Stellent, and the content management system and tools are being re-branded as part of Oracle Fusion Middleware, or some such. Quite a mouth-full, you ask me. We’ll see how much luck I have switching to the new terminology).

And you are?

Right. My name is Michael. As the world (and my workplace, in particular) is lousy with Michaels, many call me by my last name — just Caldwell.

I pay the bills as a web designer/developer at the University of Texas at Austin, and I manage a small team that serves the Office of Admissions and the Office of the Registrar.

In short,

Hello world.