Figured I should make a post the sip of water blog merging with the purpleorange blog (and soon the phpark.com blog). In upcoming posts, I will cover more of how I went about doing so.

Blogging advice I have come across dictates that you should stick to one topic per blog which is advice I may have taken too literally. Over a year ago, I decided to split the topics I was interested in blogging about into three seperate websites.

Doing so presented a few problems for me. Certain posts I wanted to write could have easily gone onto one or all three websites. I spent more time trying to figure out how to construct the post to fit one or more blogs then I did blogging which left me at a standstill with lots of partially written blog posts that have never gotten out of draft form. There was also the increase in maintenance by having three separate websites.

Another reason for me to combine the three websites (which may seem obvious) is that it should be a lot easier to get one blog going then three by allowing me to focus all my attention into one area. I chose the sipofwater.com domain over purpleorange.ca or phpark.com for a three reasons: registration cost, authority and brandability.

Was merging them a good or bad idea? I guess it depends on how you look at it. One blog was going to be about business, another about technology from a users perspective (such as using WordPress) and a third working with the technology from the perspective of a developer/programmer. In small companies, the three areas could be covered by one person and my target audience sure isn’t corporations.

My goal with blogging was to help anyone out with the knowledge I’ve obtained about WordPress, blogging, computers, programming, networking, server administration, business and the Internet over the last decade to anyone who is wanting to learn more. The feedback I was getting from Vancouver bloggers, was they wanted to get their hands dirtier with maintaining their websites but weren’t sure how to go about it. I am hoping the sip of water blog will help them out.

Whether I confuse the hell out of people or help them, remains to be seen.