Rapid Template Design Series UPDATE

Posted on June 21, 2007
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Working With Template Engines

Amazon.com, we love it, we use it, we buy from it; now we’re selling on it. As soon as Amazon approves our publishers outline on the RTDS, we’re that much closer. Amazon said they would evaluate and set the price accordingly (which is odd) and then provide it for sale as an instructional series.

Getting into college bookstores and instructors along with getting the ISBN and BarCode; well those things were easy. Getting content of this type approved by mainstream book stores and online book clubs is quite a different thing. They want that all important summary of what it is and what its intended to do. Its my fault entirely for running out to my blogs and other sites and publishing announcements prematurely. Its my fault entirely for taking what began as a free set of video tutorials and a small file collection and attempting to make it the jack of all trades which it naturally isn’t. So part of clarification we had to publish many of the key phrases I really wanted to use as supplementals under a category for working with template engines.

Joomla, Open Realty, CRELoaded, osCommerce, WordPress, among others were part of my intention to simply make them capable for stand alone template design packages. But now that has changed and they will be included as part of the series published in supplementals. Maybe in the future after this hurdle is jumped, I’ll look at making some small $20 variants specifically geared toward each of these applications.

So why am I ranting about this again? How annoying right?

Understand that this project has been my pet from the day I let the idea occupy my mind more than casually. Had I not started teaching at the community college part time, I’d likely have never come up with the idea to take this beyond the trivial. Now I’m committed; I either follow through or vanish this achievement into internet history as “the big announcement that never was”. I’ve sought and motivated colleagues to contribute (among others), and I’ve solicited investment based solely on my reputation thousands of dollars to pay for proper production audio and video equipment to produce a professional result. I’ve invested my own money along with the trivial grant given to us by the school for the foundation. A lot is on the line and I know this will be something that will be “arguably” affordable, yet important enough to have real utility value to a student of design.

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