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

Hi.

This is the project website for Ode (pronounced oh-dee), a personal publishing engine for the web. Ode is unique in that it is designed to be simple – not necessarily easy.

Simple means understandable (at least it does here).

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Organize your photos by post date

Photos are a important part of just about every site, and a great thing to include on a blog. There are probably many ways to include photos. I tend to think broadly in terms of two:

  • Photo galleries
  • Individual photos

We've probably all seen plenty of both. There are many different ways to create photo galleries and just as many ways to present individual photos. This post a post about where to keep photos on your server and how to keep them organized. It's not a post about various applications, scripts, and styles for displaying photos. I do hope to write those posts too but this isn't that.

A flat file site like the kind you create with Ode is good for a lot of reasons - everything from flexible content creation to backup, moving your content from one hosting provider to another (or even moving to a new platform should you decide that you no longer want to use Ode), and for many other reasons as well. However, you should be careful about how you organize your content to avoid eventually running into problems.

Photos are a good example of something that you will either grow to love or hate about using Ode and for reasons that have little to do with Ode itself. If you keep things organized as you go, you'll love it. Of course the same thing could be said about managing the rest of your digital content from documents to music and video, and for that matter keeping your home clean, managing your finances, and much of the rest of your life as well. One of the more subtle advantages of using Ode is that it encourages to think and act in a way that is beneficial far beyond this project.

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