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.
Because posts are plain-text files you're free to use any editor you like. That's a big deal. There are many fantastic editors available, many of the best are open source apps and of course there are also some great commercial applications.
These editors are as varied as the people who use them and the jobs they're asked to do. If you were to ask enough people, the answer to the question, "Which is the best editor?" is likely to result in nearly as many answers as the total number of choices. One thing is for sure, editors, as a class, are some of the most mature, subtlety brilliant software applications available. Why then, when it comes to writing online, are we asked to abandon these finely honed tools in favor of the blunt instrument that is the HTML form? Even with all of the new spiffy 'Ajax-ified' features that have come to define the new wave of web apps, the best web-based option is a poor substitute for even a mediocre standalone editor.
Ahh, but being able to write in a browser is so much more convenient. I agree... Ode's simple posts allows us to do both :) (More on web-based posting later.)
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.
I support the open web
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