This post orig­i­nally appeared on the now-defunct ‘Zom­biecoder Kay’ blog.

Wel­come to my newest exper­i­ment, a WordPress-powered blog about web devel­op­ment best practises.

Over at my orig­i­nal blog, I have been post­ing about a num­ber of dif­fer­ent top­ics, which tends to foil the aggre­ga­tors – read­ers of a Cold­Fu­sion feed should not have to work around arti­cles about web stan­dards, search engine opti­mi­sa­tion, my expe­ri­ences at the Big Day Out, my cats, and what colour I’m plan­ning to paint my house.

So here’s my zom­bie coder blog, where I plan to post about web stan­dards, usabil­ity, acces­si­bil­ity and any­thing else that fits into the gen­eral term “best prac­tises web devel­op­ment”, keep­ing the off-topic pat­ter to a min­i­mum. Some friends and col­leagues will also be blog­ging on their own zom­bie coder sub-domains, about dif­fer­ent top­ics but all related to cod­ing in some form.

Another rea­son for start­ing a new blog was as an oppor­tu­nity to tin­ker with Word­Press, which is one nice piece of code. I’ve used it for a cou­ple of sites, and I really like how easy it is to use, cus­tomise, and extend.

Finally, why “zom­bie coder”? It was just a cool domain that Dave – con­nois­seur of the hor­ror genre, and zom­bie movies in par­tic­u­lar – thought of, and couldn’t believe wasn’t already registered!