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MARS s.ite t.emplating s.ystem major announcement follows…

release date:
pending feedback, i think i have a release date set, or at least in mind: Friday the 13th!

special request to LiveJournallers:
if you have not seen the mars s.t.s. yet, please do a brutha a flavor and go see the damn thing and give me feedback. and be as brutally honest as you can be, because you know i have put everything i have in me into this thing and i want it to go over as well as is possible.

selling points:

  • needs no database
  • modular directory structure makes editing a snap
  • adding new themes is as easy as copying the files to the mars directory (no editing required!)
  • visitors choose their own theme, which remain active on returning to the site
  • support for different menus based on selected content
  • pretty darn quick
  • space-age themes
  • most themes feature super-cool semi-transparent backgrounds on content
  • supports both horizontal and vertical menu structures, based on selected theme
  • very little knowledge of HTML required
  • visitors do not need JavaScript-enabled browsers to use it

    caveats:

  • must run on PHP-enabled server
  • uses cookies to store visitor’s theme preference (some surfers don’t like cookies)
  • requires web hosting (and a damn browser while yer at it)

    price schedule:
    beta versions always free
    lite version, 2 skins: $5
    full version, 5 skins: $10
    full version, 10 skins: $15
    each additional skin: $2

    how the transaction is completed:
    payments are taken via PayPal. upon payment, i believe i will have a link to the actual download (instead of a “thank you” page), to prevent having to wait for an email-attachment type transaction. we’ll see how that goes, since this is obviously hardly fraud-proof. i’m not expecting to make much more than $10 a year out of this thing anyway, at least if past history is any indication of public interest. heh.

    upcoming?:
    also, i think for the next major version, there will be a Flash skinning system. i have not yet decided exactly how feasible this will be, but i am going to give it the old college try, for certain.

    …but is it actually ready??:
    i still have plenty of work to get done, most notably revising the instructions (trust me… things got a whole hell of a lot easier for users of this system!), updating the main site itself (which is actually just running the old beta version), and completing the newest skins.

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