There are 14 reader comments
53 01 200311:53AM
It's Paul's work on the front-end and the back-end. I was surprised to see the design resemble that of Ftrain, tho...perhaps they wanted to get the tech in place and worry about the design a little later.
09 01 2003 1:09PM
He does have a fascinating engine running his site.
11 01 2003 1:11PM
And uniquely suited to content like harper's, I've been bouncing around for an hour now.
13 01 2003 1:13PM
Actually, Ftrain looks like Harper's, not the other way around. I've been testing the design ideas I came up with for Harper's on Ftrain (great way to find out ahead of time which JavaScript is broken in IE 5.0.2.3.4.5.3.2.567.4.3.3). Now, Harper's will keep its look and feel, at least for a while, and Ftrain will change at my whim.
31 01 2003 1:31PM
ok, maybe it's just me, but under camino .7 on OSX10.2.8 at www.harpers.org, i get the old design. at just harpers.org i get the new look. what do you think?
18 01 2003 2:18PM
Terrence: we just tranferred our hosting provider. It can take a day or two.
30 01 2003 2:30PM
So does this mean Harpers benefits from all the RDF categorization, taxonomy, and skullduggery that ftrain features? Will there be new features taking advantage of it (or are they already there?)?
54 01 2003 2:54PM
Matt: http://www.harpers.org/Connections.html is the taxonomy. It's MUCH bigger than Ftrain's, maybe 500 topics.
35 01 2003 3:35PM
Damnit Paul, you really need to release the Ftrain sitekit. Pretty please?
05 01 2003 4:05PM
It'll be a little while, but that's definitely the plan. Let me have some lead time!
01 01 2003 5:01PM
Paul's written up a short piece about the Harper's redesign.
27 02 2003 8:27AM
Paul, you and Harper's together is the best thing on the internet all year. Please let me second the vote for the Ftrain sitekit--it's amazing stuff! Every time I start to write for my personal site I think, "If only I could make it like Paul Ford's...."
45 02 2003 7:45PM
Add my please on the site kit, please.
This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.
Liz Lawley48 01 200311:48AM
Wow. I sure hope Paul had some hand in that. If not, it's a pretty egregious theft of design.