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Dan Rubin's SuperfluousBanter

Suffering from chronic idiocy since 1977

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New Beginnings…

It’s been just over two years since my first post to Super­flu­ous­Ban­ter, and dur­ing that time I’ve redesigned the site, held a few con­tests, met tons of tal­ented folks through­out the web stan­dards design com­mu­nity, con­tributed a design to the CSS Zen Gar­den (appar­ently, though the design itself doesn’t appear to have been ripped off even once, quite a few of the sub­se­quent sub­mis­sions used my CSS as a start­ing point, ahem :-), writ­ten a chap­ter for a book on web stan­dards, and parterned with a ter­rific designer (on this site and pro­fes­sion­ally).

With all of that, I’ve some­how man­aged to lose focus some­where along the line, specif­i­cally where the con­tin­ued devel­op­ment of this site and its con­tent is con­cerned (and, directly tied to that, my own per­sonal devel­op­ment in the fields of graphic design and web devel­op­ment). I let my com­mit­ment to this site slip from my pri­or­i­ties some­where around the begin­ning of this year, and have felt my con­nec­tion to the com­mu­nity slip along with it.

Promises can be made, but are worth­less with­out action, so I won’t promise to you that Super­flu­ous­Ban­ter will be made new again, start­ing fresh now that Didier has estab­lished his own space in the ether. Instead, I will just do it, start­ing with the long-awaited redesign of SB, and an upgrade to Mov­able­Type 3.

I could list all the other things I’d love to do with SB, but I think the best way to approach this reen­try into the com­mu­nity is one com­pleted step at a time.

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004.

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10 comments on “New Beginnings…”

  1. Posted by Jeremy Flint on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004.

    Dan speaks!

    Great to have you back Dan. Yes, it is easy to get very busy and quickly lose sight of many things.

    Look­ing for­ward to what the new SB will bring us.

    Good to have you back.

  2. Posted by Keith on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004.

    “think the best way to approach this reen­try into the com­mu­nity is one com­pleted step at a time.”

    No doubt. Upgrad­ing to MT 3 isn’t too hard, but if you want to do it right you should do it one step at a time.

    Good luck and I can’t wait to see what you do.

  3. Posted by Ryan Brill on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004.

    Nice to hear from you again, Dan. I’m def­i­nitely look­ing for­ward to the new design for SB, and am also eager to begin see­ing some new con­tent from you.

    Glad you’re back.

  4. Posted by Jonathan M. Hollin on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004.

    Wel­come back Dan. It would be great to see SB pick up speed again. I can hardly wait for the new stuff.

    All the best for the future.

  5. Posted by Didier Hilhorst on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004.

    Now of course I have been priv­iliged to get a peek at what is com­ing in the future, and I for sure can’t wait to see it in action. Dur­ing my time at SB I have been bust­ing your balls to write more. Not because I wanted a blog with a lot of con­tent, but sim­ply because what you have to say is valu­able, to me, to read­ers, to the com­mu­nity at large (and besides, it still was and is your blog.) The dis­cus­sions we often have on IM are all blog wor­thy (yeah, okay, maybe not every­thing…) I’ll be look­ing for­ward to see your thoughts, ideas, and writ­ings again on this blog. Kick some major ass dude!

  6. Posted by Garrett on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004.

    I’m look­ing for­ward to it.

  7. Posted by Dan on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004.

    Well hurry up and do it already, sir! We’re ready. I should talk.

  8. Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, August 4th, 2004.

    good to have you back, Dan.

    look­ing for­ward to the new stuff.

  9. Posted by David House on Wednesday, August 4th, 2004.

    yay!

    I’d be inter­est­ing in the jus­ti­fi­ca­tion of your upgrade to MT3 choice. Was there a spe­cific rea­son you’re not swap­ping to some­thing more open source? Espe­cially con­sid­er­ing it’s becom­ing some­thing of a mar­ket leader nowadays.

  10. Posted by Dan Rubin on Wednesday, August 4th, 2004.

    To answer David’s ques­tion: I’ve kept my eye on Word­Press since it was first released, and it looks very promis­ing as a blog­ging tool, but I’ll admit my pref­er­ence for MT comes mostly from the level of pol­ish in the UI. The MT team has had a lot more time to evolve the inter­face, and that makes it eas­ier for me to use and inter­act with. And based on some of the fea­tures com­ing very soon in MT3.1, the under­pin­nings are only get­ting better.

    “So,” you ask, “are you say­ing that if Word­Press were bet­ter look­ing you might con­sider using it?” — in short, yes. And I imag­ine that, as WP pro­gresses to the next major ver­sion, improve­ments to the inter­face and the user expe­ri­ence over­all will be on their to-do list.

    For what it’s worth, the same thing goes for Blog­ger — I find it much eas­ier to use since Doug and AP’s redesign.