Hello, World!
by Justen on June 30th, 2008 at 09:51pmSo here it is, the first post. Welcome to my new site. I did a lot of work on it, some of the best of which unfortunately only I can take advantage of right now. I’ve built a content management system for myself from scratch to my exact specifications. Its user interface is powered entirely by AJAX. In administrator mode there is no control panel; if you can see something on the screen, you can click on it and change it how you like. For instance to edit this article, I simply doubleclick anywhere inside it and the article is replaced by an editor. The editor itself is powered by lovely and efficient Textile.
To add items and links to my menu, create a new menu, remove a menu, or what have you, I have a series of small buttons, all of which can complete the process without ever leaving the page or forcing me to fuss with complicated and obtuse mazes of dialogs and menus in a control panel somewhere.
Many features are still in the wings; for example, the feature that will allow you to comment on articles like this, and experience a bit of the editor yourself. Further down the road I plan to build a sandbox version of the whole thing for anyone and everyone to play with, and once the initial feature set is complete the source code will be available to anyone interested in having a look or putting it to use.
Also coming soon are many more artistic and presentational features. This site is an exhibit of my artistic as well as my technical ability, and I intend to spend as much time on the design as I would on any personal piece of artwork.
You are welcome to explore more information about the technical features of my site by browsing the links present to the left and in the footer below. Unless of course you’re not running a standards supporting browser such as Firefox, Safari, or Opera, in which case everything is over on the left. Why is that? Because Internet Explorer is incapable of properly rendering it, unfortunately.
Until next time, happy coding!
-Justen