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

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Hi and welcome to Ode (pronounced oh-dee). Glad you stopped by.

Important: Ode is very new.

In the coming weeks I intend to post a lot of information to this site, and of course the complete project (including a set of sample themes and documentation) will be available for you to download.

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Wed, 11 Feb 2009

Introducing Ode (Hello :)

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...

Posted: Feb 11, 2009 1:15pm

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

I Hope you decide to give Ode a try!

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.

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