pMachine is giving away a total of $15,000 in cash and prizes in their aptly-named $15,000 Web Design Shootout, and as if that wasn’t enough to prove they’re insane, they’ve invited me to be one of the judges.
It’s fair to say that my participation in (and to some extent, passion for) all-things-blog went on walkabout in 2005. The list of blogs I visited on a weekly basis dwindled to three, and after launching the most recent version of this site, entries destined for public consumption went instead to a folder named “Posts” or directly to the Trash. I tend to sculpt entries over a period of time rather than fire off fleeting, inconsequential whims, and I suppose a byproduct of that methodology is, among other things, a folder of 43 entries which have never seen the light of day.
It’s a good time to divulge some of the motivations and machinations behind etherfarm v4.0. There’s no way I’ll be able to do this in one article, so I’ll take a stab at regularly publishing etherfarm production and ExpressionEngine information on Thursdays. This kind of weekly series will allow me to consolidate EE-related punditry and code geekery to one day a week, so the non-technical readers don’t feel alienated. In this article I’ll tackle layout.
The names for this site’s major sections—Synapse, Oculus, and Mandible—debuted in 2002 when etherfarm version 2.0 launched. For whatever reason, this use of unconventional terminology has always irked certain people. I’m fine with this; if etherfarm is ever a site which appeals to everyone, I’m clearly doing something wrong, and of course, everyone’s entitled to their own opinion. Every once in a while, though, I come across sites which reference or review etherfarm using qualified complements such as, “once you get past the ’clever’ navigation…” or “despite the intellectual pretentiousness…” …
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