This Author’s Site Gets Better

Where the WoSaM came from

Tags WoSaM, website engine, modx, author site


By hook or crook, I’ve been building and maintaining websites for what seems like a long time. “It’s true. It’s true.” Me and the Internet go way back. No genius there. I made/make my daily living and built a couple of successful businesses in the Tech Space. A continuous and current presence on the web comes and goes with the territory. I’ve owned and operated more website engines than cars.

I’ve owned the awesome and magically short wosam dot com site name for years. Yes. It’s older than Google and Amazon. The name remained mostly unused for much of that time.

The site name originally stood for “What’s on Sale and More”.

The initial name meaning provides you with sort of the idea of what I was thinking about in the early ‘90s. Who wasn’t?

That might help explain why I left a successful architectural practice for the rich and famous to become a tech company business start-up.
It doesn’t really.

Life is more complicated than that.

Wonder of Space and Magic

I prefer the current meaning and the “Wonder of Space and Magic” moniker. Way cool.

Using the wosam dot com site name for my author site web address makes sense.
Who wants to type lots of characters to find an author’s website or a writer’s books?

I enjoy the comic book connotations that the wosam site address also carries. Just sayin’.

Modx Rocks

I want use this post about the site maintenance and upkeep stuff to give a shout out to the open source Modx CMS engine and the Modx Cloud service that hosts the website.
Modx is “The Right Stuff” because it works.

OK. Be warned. I am tech geeky.
I must also support other much larger and more complex sites too.

Modx allows me to be creative in form and well manage the many tasks and purposes of a modern website without too much of a hassle.

We recently upgraded the website look and feel, improved the site graphics (I hope), and performance too. We got the routine upgrade nastiness all done in next to no time. Hoorah.

My goal is to get the Weight of Space on the street by the late spring or early summer. I am banging away at the 2 AU follow up. Then again maybe I procrastinate.