Ode is simple! (Simple means that you know how it works.)

Hi and welcome to ode-is-simple.com. Glad you stopped by.

There is a new Ode forum at ode-is-simple.com/vanilla2_forum

It's empty (or just about) at the moment but I've prepared several categories. Please feel free to register and participate.

Though I plan on very actively pushing content to this site, and the weblog at news.ode-is-simple.com, the forum is intended to be a community effort, as well as a resource.

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Mon, 29 Mar 2010

Intro to Ode Presentation

New to Ode? You may want walk through this short (29 slide) intro presentation.

The presentation includes just 29 slides and attempts to answer the first questions you might have about Ode (from the basics to design goals).

Note: The presentation is running through Ode by taking advantage of the S5 standard, which is based entirely on XHTML, CSS, Javascript. Not only is it a nice introduction to what Ode is all about, but it's also a good demonstration of just how flexible Ode's simple themes are. The entire presentation consists of a post and a theme (just like this one).

Intro to Ode presentation

Posted: Mar 29, 2010 3:30pm EDT

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Download Ode

Current Release (r1.2.3 Made avail: 2010/0613)

Note: Installation instructions are included with download.

Important notices

2010/0405 8:34 pm EDT: There is a new Ode forum at ode-is-simple.com/vanilla2_forum
2010/0325 4:38 pm EDT: There is a new Ode blog at news.ode-is-simple.com/weblog
2010/0325 4:34 pm EDT: The first version of Ode is released.

Welcome

Hi and welcome to ode-is-simple.com. Glad you stopped by.

I Hope you decide to give Ode a try!

If you have any questions or comments email me at rob at ode-is-simple dot com

Ode?...

Glad you asked. It's a new platform for creating weblogs (and other types of dynamic sites) which emphasizes simplicity, both in terms of usability and design. The idea is that anyone who is interested should be able to understand how the program works at the source code level.
Find out more...

I'm just now starting to put this site and other online resources together. If you don't find what you're looking for here, please email me at ode.is.simple at gmail dot com.

I encourage you to subscribe to this site's feed to keep up with all of the news and info related to Ode.

Why do we need weblogs?

Isn't Facebook enough? Ask yourself if you're comfortable handing over all of your content to a service that you have no control over for the luxury of wading through ads, and then hoping that they don't change the terms of service at a moment's notice in such a way that you're no longer comfortable with their policies.

Worst case scenario, you could be cut off from both your friends and your content.
That would be a sad :(

Perhaps more important is the fact that we already have a web. If you're like me, you don't see the need to build a web on top of the web and put it in the hands of a single commercial entity. Something about that just doesn't feel like a step in the right direction.

The beauty of the web is its distributed, interconnected diversity!

The good news is that there all alternatives. Start a weblog and invest in your own online presence. Through your weblog, you can keep in touch with friends and family, link to and discuss topics of interest to you, interact with online services like Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Google Maps, just to name a few, and that's just the beginning. Your weblog is yours. It's Your own little slice of the Web.