Rodent Regatta

In short order I got some really solid answers to my questions about Textpattern’s handling of comment-spam. There’s quite a host of features focused on managing comments. Good news with more to follow tomorrow.

Two high profile design sites have been redesigned. Catch a glimpse of what’s getting said at redemption through standards.

What’s interesting about all of this is how seldom there is any universal agreement about what is good and what is bad in design. Once the subjective matters are on the table, everybody’s got an opinion.

My approach is this: I know it when I see it.

In Tables vs. CSS: A Fight to the Death over at Sitepoint, Sergio Villarreal has written a nice comparison of two approaches to the design of a fictional site. [thanks to Richard Erickson of MovableBLOG::Asides for the link]

To better learn CSS, web standards, accessibility, semantics, XHTML, validation…

To set up several additional sites that I’ve been contemplating…

To learn to do some design work…

To have a test platform for all of the above…

To consider a set of tools and methods for switching my existing sites to new tools…

To have a tighter contact with people who are as interested in writing as they are programming computers…

...and because there has been near total silence about the Movable Type licensing changes since May 21, 2004...

...I’ve made a decision to set up multiple Textpattern sites and have WordPress as a second tool that I’ll learn and use. Work will begin next week. Progress will be slow initially, but it will accelerate. If you’re at all confused about any of this, I point you to my About page.

It seems that Stacy Tabb of Sekimori Design has made a decision in favor of Expression Engine.