Rodent Regatta

I’ve got two web hosts. I like them both. TextDrive is new and I have less experience doing things there. It’s the home of some future work I have planned. Hosting Matters has been rock solid for me for almost two years. Judging from what can happen when you have hosted information, I’ve dodged quite a bullet by having relationships with these two providers.

Good morning. Metrics are hard to come by in the weblogging world. It’s not clear how many sites have been built with each tool. Somebody knows, but to my knowledge, that isn’t generally public information.

Matthew Mullenweg is tracking the use of WordPress and says that there are now 10,000 sites built with WordPress. How does this compare to Radio, Textpattern and Movable Type?

Slayeroffice.com has a new color shift experiment that follows on the logic of the color palette creator (1.3).

Posting here may be pretty light for the next couple of days, except during breaks. I’m deep into some coursework on XHMTL, CSS and tools for web design.

I only wish tutorials were available for Textpattern. I’m impressed with the software, but learning it in its present state is pretty challenging. Documentation is slim. Tutorials are non-existent.

For those who’d like to dig into standards-based design, try these:

• download Topstyle Pro 3.1 and go through its tutorial
• take a look at the tutorial for Style Master 3.5
• Try out some of the Westciv courses

I’m interested in developing an XML syndication feed for an ERP application. Properly done, RSS could become the next executive information system. Thanks to Richard Caetano for the idea.

Paul Scrivens announces the launch of Business Logs. We’re about to move into an era of weblog design and development that focuses the medium on organizational needs and uses.