CODENAME: FILNET

Around 10 pm ( New York ) (10:15 am Philippines ) and the team are about to go for a lunch out celebration when my iMac rings. GAV is on Skype and probably had already checked the site. We're right, he's so excited and he really appreciated our effort to put Filipiniana.net up. He was so happy with the result specially with how the database works. Well, finally, we got something to show to the world of what we are working lately. Sleepless night is part of it and this is just the beginning. What we need now is to tweak more on the design part of the pages. Yes, I admit that it was not really so cool. It just so happen that we are concentrated more on the database part and additional features we can integrate to the site. The last minute retouching of the main page makes it unbalance in the sense that some of its contents are really just a filler for vacant space. GAV suggested a better solution. Make it as simple as " Apple's site". Yes, It was like a magi...

T'was a time boggling and stressful day for the group as we started our countdown launch. We should come up with the final version of the site and should be online by September 27 (New York date) at all cost. Our publisher who is currently in New York is dying to see the webpage up. And he doesn't care if we have the final content or not. He rather want to see it incomplete rather than nothing to see at all. For the record, I have uploaded our initial teaser page last January this year and he can no longer wait to see it after 6 months. He want to see it so we can have his personal perusal to the site. His friends and international business contacts were already waiting for that page to be uploaded to see what we can offer. This would determine how serious we are with the project and he doesn't want to disappoint them with the target deadline. He personally marketed the site abroad, researched and gathered all the materials and sent it back to us here in Manila. Hi...

As we on the verge of site development, my publisher come up with the idea of Wiki. He asked me if that vision would be possible. He receives positive remarks from us and he tackles his plan to create a wiki counterpart of the popular Wikipedia . So, as we build for the Philippine's first ever Wiki project, we have to research on its fundamental structure. Know also why it gains popular and how the whole site works. Now, I have able to identify my primary concern- designing a wiki. Open - a page could be found incomplete, poorly organized so any reader can edit it as they see fit. Incremental - Pages can cite other pages, including pages that have not been written yet. Organic - The structure and text content of the site are open to editing and evolution. Mundane - A small number of (irregular) text conventions will provide access to the most useful page markup. Universal - The mechanisms of editing and organizing are the same as those of writing so that any writer is ...