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Thought Of The Day
Share Ever notice that every torrent site has ads plastered everywhere? And not ads for Amnesty International, mind you; commercial, for-profit ads, the kind you get money for putting on your site. I see a lot of porn ads, which … Continue reading
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Why Not WordPress?
Share After a couple of conversations I’ve had with people about Dbasr, I realize that I probably haven’t been too clear on why I decided to build an entirely new CMS, rather than building off of WordPress. WordPress is a … Continue reading
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The Popularity/Viability Bell Curve
Share I just had an inspiration, and I thought I’d throw it up here and see what you thought. I’ve been saying for a while that the more popular a band is, the less likely they are to sell records … Continue reading
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Plugin Architecture?
Share Something nobody’s actually asked me about is whether Dbasr’s going to have a plugin architecture. The answer is: yes, probably, but not in the 1.0 release. Building a plugin-capable CMS is hard. Really hard. Part of the reason I … Continue reading
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On the styling of admin panels
Share I’ve been giving this a great deal of thought, and I think that I’m going to give Dbasr’s admin panel an extremely minimalist design. I’m talking black-on-gray, Helvetica-as-the-first-font-in-the-font-family-CSS-declaration sort of minimal. My favorite site that I ever used, back … Continue reading
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Why Should You Contribute To Dbasr?
Share So maybe you’re here from Twitter or Facebook and you’re looking at my video and my features and thinking “This Dbasr thing is all well and good…but I’m not a musician. Why should I part with my hard-earned money … Continue reading
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