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I've gotten a lot done on FromThePage over the last month: I finished a navigation redesign that unites the different kind of actions you can take on a work, a page, or a subject article around those objects. I added preview and error handling functionality to the transcription screen We — well, Sara actually — figured out an appropriate two-column layout and implemented … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Layout, Usability, and Collections

Well, that was fast! Four days after announcing that this blog would take a speculative turn (read "stall") while I spent months on article links, linking pages to articles works! It only took me about ten hours of coding and research to learn to use the XML parser, write the article and link schema, process typed transcriptions into a canonical XML form with appropriate … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Article Links

I haven't spent much time on this blog talking about vision or theory. Perhaps that's because blogger theorizing reminds me too much of corporate vision statements, or maybe because I've found it less than helpful in other people's writing. However, once you start talking about money and control, you need to figure out what you're not willing to do. There a few principles … [Read more...] about Principles