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History is Now
A few last notes in preparation for launching the home page demo. The new and coming soon pieces are things that I want to keep up to date easily, and in a large page like this they're sometimes hard to find. The master page architecture makes this unbelievably easier to manage, but I still like to have things as short as I can get. That on it's own is a good reason to pull each of these out as a user control. But even more importantly in this case, I want to be able to keep this news up to date and consistent across multiple pages; currently I also want it on the Roman Forum and in the future I may want it elsewhere as well. Yet more good reasons to pull these out as user controls. I played with the idea of making them one control, but keeping them separate will give me the ability to use them singly in the future without modifying anything. I can believe that the website log would be good to have the coming soon, and the EC Beta news would be a good place to have the new section, and maybe not the other. So I'm doing them separately.
This is pretty much the home page as I intend to run it. I want to update the SEO keywords for Earth Chronicle so that they're not optimized for the demo on the beta site. For the future, I want to consider whether these pages should have the same keywords as what I'm running on Earth Chronicle, so that I don't accidentally forget and run pages that include keywords like "template" and "demonstration". I will still have customization since the forward and back links don't belong on the Home page. They're only here as part of the navigation around the ongoing testing section. This will be interesting to keep an eye on, and I'd like to find a way around having to make changes. This is a bottleneck in my iterative development but it may be unavoidable in my current master page architecture.
[chroniclemaster1, 2009/10/30]
Welcome to the Earth Chronicle, the best public domain library on Earth. Our collection of articles is thoroughly checked for accuracy, and you can use anything you find without the need to ask anyone's permission. No copyrights, no copylefts, nada. You can trust what you see, and use what you trust. Period. This website is that simple.
We accept articles on every topic imaginable. Earth Chronicle is dedicated to history, but really... what isn't part of history? So if you'd like to help out with your own special expertise, check out all the ways you can help, whether it be football, photography info or a collection of images, music in any form or media, cooking, math and science, or the kind of history you read about in history textbooks. All our articles and media files come from you, just like Wikipedia except that we rigorously review everything before it's posted. So if you want to share your knowledge, if you have a collection of your best photographs, if you've created some beautiful artwork, if you'd like wider exposure for your newest font, or you've made some killer musical loops or a fantastic set of instructional videos. Find out how you can share them.
That said, we currently specialize in world history; take a look at our excellent system for making the outlines of world history simple and comprehensible. World history is too broad to learn by studying Napoleon and Caesar, the American Civil War and the Industrial Revolution. Check out our Timelines to see how you can make those pieces fall into place.
And as you'd expect for a sophisticated website, we have a lot of expertise in a wide variety of internet technologies. Learn from our projects at Earth Chronicle Beta, or stop by just to give us feedback on our next generation of improvements.
New!
Earth Chronicle is posted! We're back and better than ever. [chroniclemaster1 2009/10/25]
We've posted our first serious programming work in C#. Check out our demonstration using a Data Access Layer (DAL) to power a Link Factory. Consider this a preview of what's coming soon to automate the website behind the scenes. [chroniclemaster1 2009/10/29]
Coming Soon
Our Timelines are coming on line as we speak; check out what we have up. We're busily revising and fleshing out several years of notes in order to get everything ready for you. :D
:D Hurray! We've found public domain Mercator maps compiled from elevation data taken by NASA and JPL's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) in beautifully intricate color detail. These will form the core of Earth Chronicle Atlas, and be posted as soon as we can.
Check out what we're in the process of designing at our Beta website. We'd love your feedback.
See what we'd like to design (especially if you'd like to help!) on our Website Log.
"Stars fade like memory the instant before dawn. Low in the east, the sun appears golden as an opening eye. That which can be named must exist. That which is named can be written. That which is written shall be remembered. That which is remembered lives."
Ellis, Normandi, trans. Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1988. 43.