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If you're unfamiliar with Ode, you may want to take a look at the Intro to Ode presentation.

The presentation includes 29 slides that attempt to address the first questions you might have, i.e. the what and why of Ode (from basics to design goals).

Do we need another publishing platform? You might guess that my answer to that question is, "Yes! At least I think we need this one."

Let's start by talking about what Ode isn't. It's not antoher WordPress. I think the people responsible for that platform are doing just about as good a job with it as is possible.

If you're looking for something with a relational database management system like MySQL at the backend and 4+ MB worth of PHP, Javascript and CSS then you really should check out that project. I'm not being insincere or cynical I really do think WordPress is pretty fantastic, but Ode is something different.

That package (and many others) do more than Ode at the moment but as I've already said, Ode is different.

Different how? Ode is simple.

• Ode itself is a single Perl script.
• Content are simple plain-text files.
• The look at layout of an Ode site is determined by a theme that is nothing more than standard (X)HTML and CSS.

Is that all there is to it?

Are Legos just interconnectable plastic blocks?
No, that's just the beginning...