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In March of 2004, this site was recognized as a Top Blog by BlogsCanada.
Many thanks are due to Jim Elve, developer of BlogsCanada. It is an honour to receive recognition for a hobby, but even nicer to receive that recognition from an organization that I admire.
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-- Movable Type and Wordpress
-- Gallery (Bharat Mediratta)
-- MT-Blacklist (Jay Allen)
-- Textile (Brad Choate)
-- Mozilla Firefox
-- Web Developer Extension (Chris Pederick)
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3 comments for this entry ↓
1 Paul Hoy // Nov 21, 2004 at 5:43 pm
Hi Dennis,
You have a beautiful well-designed site. May I be so frank to ask if you would allow me to copy it? Its purpose would be similar to yours, except I would add file management and searching. It would also deal with mental illness, literature, music, and the arts in general.
Thanks,
Paul Hoy
[email protected]
2 Paul Hoy // Nov 21, 2004 at 5:47 pm
Hi Dennis (again),
The more I look at your site, the more I realize how unfair it would be to let me simply copy it. If you're interested, I would pay you a fee to use a copy, and then change the colours so as not to be an exact match of your site.
I'm quite serious. Let me know.
Paul Hoy
3 dennis // Nov 21, 2004 at 5:49 pm
Paul:
Sorry for the slow response; I was quite busy this weekend. Anyhow --
Regarding your question as to CMS products, the following is a very good comparison site: http://www.cmsmatrix.org/. It has a very comprehensive breakdown of features, costs, etc. Personally, I've used Movable Type for several years and was a beta tester for the latest release. There is a 'no cost' version for non-commercial use, but no formal support is provided from Six Apart.
With regard to the site design, you may have noticed that my site is released under a Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/. I would prefer if you didn't copy my design lock stock and barrel, but I suppose that there really isn't much to stop you (or anyone else) from doing so. I would ask that if you do copy the design, please abide by the Creative Commons deed and make sure the site isn't used for commercial purposes (including any ads) and that you clearly state attribution for where the design came from. I'll waive the 'no derivative works' clause so long as you abide by the other two conditions.
Having said that, there are many pre-packaged templates available for all manner of CMS systems including Movable Type, Wordpress, etc., etc. There are also web-based tools that will generate valid CSS/XHTML designs based on criteria that you select (e.g., number of columns, header, footer, etc.) I would be more than happy to help you generate a design for your site in terms of pointing you to resources, helping debug code, etc.
In any event, I'd appreciate it if you let me know how you're going to proceed. Thanks for taking the time to ask -- it's more than most people would do.
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Dennis
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