Aditya Kothadiya's Blog

For those who are new to this blog, I used to write my personal blog at Adeologue.com, which I’ll be deleting very soon. Recently I moved the same blog to this AdityaKothadiya.com domain. I’ve been wanting to do it since so long, but finally got the time to do it now. Here is my reasoning why I moved my blog -

1. Real identity

I started blogging 4 years ago under the brand called Adeology (Aditya’s Ideology). I really loved that name. But when I decided to host it on the same domain name, not surprisingly, the domain name wasn’t available. The closest I could find was Adeologue.com. I blogged under that brand for almost 2 years. But over the period, I got bored of it. I didn’t find it personal anymore. Also, the domain name wasn’t representing my identity. In this social media world, if I’m building my brand, I thought I better build it under one common identity i.e. my real name.

2. Personal domain

When you are writing a personal blog, which is not strictly topic specific, then it’s better you blog under your personal domain. It gives you some flexibility to write posts which are thoughtful, are oriented towards your readership, but are little off from your blog topic. In my opinion, if you are writing a group blog, or a topic specific blog, then you should go for some generic or topic specific domain name. This also gives you some flexibility to add more authors to your blog as co-contributors.

3. New broader focus

At Adeologue.com, I mainly wrote about entrepreneurship, startups, productivity tips for students and recent graduates, and lessons learned from different books. Since last few months, I’ve been spending more and more time in programming and building web applications, I found less and less time for the blogging. After spending more time on building applications, I also wanted to write about programming, hacks, tutorials, tips that I was learning along the way. But I couldn’t write it under Adeologue.com brand, because it was not started with that theme in the mind. Now, I’ll continue to write about entrepreneurship, productivity, tips for students, book reviews, but I’ll also write about small programs, hacks, applications and more. With this new year, new domain, new design, new focus, I’m excited to share more thoughts and more learning with you.

4. Blogging platform

I first started blogging with Blogger.com service. It sucked big time. I never liked that. And I think it still sucks. It was too close and too clumsy. But it was free, so I stuck with it for some time. After it reached my frustration peak, I moved to TypePad.com – a paid subscription service. That was my another mistake. TypePad also sucked big time. I’ve been using TypePad for last 2 years, but I hardly found any improvement in that service over 2 years. The service is slow. It’s usability has some serious issues. The experience was not pleasant. And the worst part – it was paid. It’s still the same TypePad that I started using 2 years ago. I never felt that it was worth for $90/year.

On the other hand, I found WordPress was doing relentless improvement in their blogging platform. And it’s a free solution if you already have the web hosting subscription plan. When I explored its 2.7 release, I was sold completely. It’s smooth. It’s highly usable. It’s fast. It’s simple and beautiful. It has lot of great features. And it is free. This was the turning point for me to move from TypePad to WordPress. I’m loving WordPress. I just regret why I took so long to migrate to WordPress.

5. More control

Another reason I’m loving WordPress is, it gives me complete control over features, layout, design, tools, all without additional cost. I always wanted to have clean, simplified, but CSS rich design for my blog. I could never achieve that on Blogger and WordPress for minimal expenses. Using WordPress, I got complete control over how I wanted to design this blog’s theme. I’m very happy with the result. Simple and clean. More focus on post entries. Fonts are also bigger and clearly readable. The width of post section is also wide enough that I can post some code snippets. Thanks to Lucian Marin’s original simplistic theme.

I hope you are also liking this new blog, and will also like the content of this blog. Let me know any feedback that you may have.