Sillyness, werd

Alas, I’ve yet to even know the opportunity. Someday that will hopefully change, but until then patience and living vicariously through others will simply have to do.

Joseph-Beth is my favorite bookstore of all time. And my favorite spot in Lexington when I visit (along with Common Grounds).

I’ll make sure to look for your book next time I’m there!

Congrats Chris, it must feel good seeing your book on the shelves.. Something i doubt i will ever get to experience.

Looks like a great book to, and here i went and ordered that silly php/MySql bible.

Is the book based around Habari?

Also your “My Book” hyperlink goes to a 404 on Amazon.

Anton: I know how you feel. I had much the same thoughts until I literally fell into BDS. You never know where your chance will come from!

David: I agree with you on the JB part, but I just never got into Common Grounds. I was a Coffee Stop man all the way. Oh how I miss the Rocket Fuel…

SEO Carly: The book covers the major Blog systems at the time (almost 2 years ago now!). I wrote the chapter on WordPress, with Michael Heilemann. And thanks for the heads up, the link is now fixed.

I have just place an order at amazon.com for your book and it will arrived in 2-3 weeks time. Thanks!

Ok i’m sold, i’ve started getting in to Blog design and tinkering with writing widgets and it looks like the book will help.

I’ve got a Gift Certificate coming my way, however i just looked and there’s 1 Book left… Going to be a tight squeeze!

Chris sorry to derail things away from your book, but is there a theme repository for Habari?

I’ve decided to use it for my new project, but i’m quite a newbie at designing themes (hence ordering your book). I just downloaded a theme called Connections, it’s nice and all but it was wondering what else is about?

I have checked the Wiki but unless i am overlooking it i cant seem to find a theme viewer or collection of Habari themes. Is this something in the pipeline?

There isn’t much at the moment unfortunately. There is a page on the wiki listing available themes:

http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Available_Themes

And there is some information on the wiki explaining how to make themes, but that is about it. I should really do a proper tutorial on themeing with Habari. It would be a nice companion piece to my WordPress Series…

Yes that would be excellent Chris, if there is any single one thing lacking or rather should i say preventing Habari gaining momentum faster is the lack of themes, plug-ins and modifications.

People love to customize things, and Habari is more a roll your sleeves up and get busy with code in order to bend it to your needs type system. This is fine by me because i can code and design to a good extent, but it cuts out the masses.

So to get it more mainstream, a theme and plug in repository would go a long way at achieving this. Also a showcase of Habari sites and a good demo. Is there even a default demo Chris? Back when i first downloaded it i couldn’t find one, i think a lot of people like to “see” what they are taking the time to download and install before doing so.

Either way i’d like to knock together some themes for it, even if they are just some basic clean looking ones.. Time is my own worst enemy.

I have bought it! It will arrive in 4 days. Hope it is worth all these nice commements. Thanks.