Letexa Blog

Here are four screenshots from the new site. It is organized in three parts: content, authors, employees. Content: obvious. Authors: for those creating content. Employees: those who build the infrastructure and support the customers viewing content and the authors creating it. The general community ideas as outlined in the current letexa.com “About” pages apply.

Design philosophy:

• No colors. Color is for content. The framework stays humbly in the background!
• No images - NONE. There is no logo file, no GUI background images, none. Everything is done with text and boxes available via simple CSS.
• Keep it simple.
• Be different and unique.

Homepage

Content index page (clicking “Learn>>” above)

Categories page (clicking “Categories>>” above)

Categories page with items (clicking on a category with items above)

Mörre

To give a status update - this site is by no means abandoned - I’m preparing a relaunch of the site with full features and more content. The new site is going to be based on Ruby on Rails (2.2.2), the current site still is PHP. I worked on a commercial RoR project in the meantime, and after letting it sink in I decided to switch. Not that I ever loved PHP that much, the question was using a J2EE platform instead… RoR does have its own issues, definitely (come on, to believe the Rails application should take care of all data integrity, instead of e.g. using (foreign key) constraints in the database… hint: it doesn’t work in all (runtime) cases), but to sum it up, I decided to go for it (and I put the constraints into the DB manually - a very simple one-time effort only anyway).

Mörre

There are quite a few jobs available, go to the homepage!

Mörre