Incunabula: Design Notes
This site is written in HTML and rendered in CSS + Javascript. The layout is heavily inspired by the geometric design experiments at the Bauhaus in the mid 1920s, but with a neue-millenial edge. UI enhancements make use of Youngpup's very wicked DOM-drag object. Behind the scenes, the site uses a simple PHP membrane-controller to filter URI requests to content resources, stored in a combination of plain HTML files, and database tables. CMS is hand rolled atm, using a combination of Dreamweaver and Kupu. Nothing too flash, but it works, and gives me a flexibility to evolve this site which I wouldn't have with a more standard weblog tool. I'm still toying with the idea of releasing some of this code in piecemeal fashion, which better reflects the way in which it was built, but theres also a very strong impulse to hold off, until there is more of a coherent framework, and push it out all at once. Questions, decisions. Hopefully some of these things can be answered through the development of this site itself.