New: Menforpalin.com
September 29, 2008 • (0) Comments
Launched just last week, the new blog MenforPalin.com rides atop ExpressionEngine Core and a cadre of quick-witted-but-pseudonymous writers who’ve had enough with 24-7 Sarah Palin bashing. They say they will use the site to provide analytical counter-punch and set forth a positive case for electing the McCain-Palin ticket. Villagewerx registered the domain, designed and coded the site, but is not otherwise responsible for its content.
That said, I don’t disclaim their points of view and I am proud to help amplify their perspective in the blogosphere.
Face it. The attacks on Governor Palin have been relentless, starting with Theology Professor Wendy Doniger’s claim that “[Palin’s] greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman,” and extending to South Carolina Democrat State Chair Carol Fowler’s witless quip that the Republican vice presidential candidate’s “primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion,” topped only by comic Sandra Bernhard’s exhortation several days ago that Palin deserved to be gang-raped by black men. Why are leftists so afraid of this woman?
Anyway, the new website presents separate EE multi-author blogs for Energy, Politics, Reform, and general rebuttals ("Truth Squad") and happily invites comments from readers. A promotional roll-out is underway now.
All-told, the technical build-out was completed in about two working days and involved seven weblogs, some twenty-five custom templates (plus a bunch of embedded sub-templates and cascading stylesheets) and another plenitude of embedded variables. Midway through construction, I realized that I goofed when I specified EE Categories to separate editorial features. Estimating that the time required to write and fine-tune sufficient conditional code to make flexible templates would have exceeded our budget, I scrapped several hours of work and reverted to separate weblogs rather than categories. This architecture works well and provides an option to style each editorial feature distinctly and to replicate any section by duplicating its template group and feeding in some new variables at no real penalty in system overhead.
Congratulations, MenforPalin. Your efforts have my support.