Welcome to BoltPress, also the official blog.NOVALISTIC! If you’d like to read about the main site and me, check out the main about page instead. This page, on the other hand, has become really short.
What I write about
This blog mostly covers the development of NOVALISTIC, as well as web development & design topics in general. There can be articles, tutorials or even just link plugs.
I hardly write about my personal life unless it largely involves web development too. If there are any that you might want to read you can look in the Life post topic. For those really interested in what goes on with me other than web stuff, check out my personal blog @ WordPress.com.
BoltPress or blog.NOVALISTIC?!
Like I’ve said: both. The WordPress installation (yes, of course it runs on WordPress!) is titled BoltPress, but I always refer to it everywhere as blog.NOVALISTIC. Funny stuff, huh?
OK, well, there’s actually a very simple story behind the name BoltPress: it’s a portmanteau of BoltClock and WordPress, and was in fact the title of my WordPress.com blog, which is now known as BoltClock @ WordPress.com (smart, eh?). Back then in December 2005 I wasn’t really thinking much of WordPress; although I did see how nice it was, I continued to use Blogger for two more years until I decided to kill it off and open the BoltPress that you see now, also known as blog.NOVALISTIC. Hence the double names!
Since 2007
You may have noticed in the footer that it says ‘BoltPress Copyright © 2007…’. This blog has indeed been around since May 30, 2007, but what about the site?
It’s quite a story, but basically the main site was dead for a long while. NOVALISTIC 2.0 was too whimsical and purposeless, NOVALISTIC 3.0 “Oltanis” never even came to be, while this blog continued to live on its own under the http://blog.NOVALISTIC.com subdomain. But all that has changed with the launch of NOVALISTIC 4.0 “Sarathos”!