Actually, I did not do the freebie stuff. I went from coding my own static pages and inserting a script for the commenting that I made (it was called PixelledCOMMENT at the time) that acted like a self-hosted Haloscan (.com). Then b2, I got a whiff of and tried it… and liked it.

There were so many plugins much like WordPress, and the code was not much different, so when WordPress finally was birthed, I changed over with ease and converted all of my static pages to the content management that WordPress could offer. It was awesome. The changes and plugins and enthusiasm of the users were great. I waded in and I literally was a sponge learning what I could pre-WordPress for Dummies type stuff. I knew as a web designer this script would be great. It was right off the bat. And so, after switching several domains and blogs, I am still using WordPress after more than 6 years (3 years on Blondish.net alone.)