About the Site
In my book Information Architecture with XML I make many comparisons between information processing and management, and food processing. Food can be presented in an unlabelled can, in which you find an unidentifiable and unappetizing gloop of something that would probably need microscopic analysis to identify. In my experience, many web sites involve similar experiences: nothing is clearly labelled or packaged, and your only hope of finding anything is to fall back on "full text search", often the lazy IT professional's answer to lack of any information architecture or clear site policy.Navigating any information space should be as clear and interesting as diving into a well-prepared salad: all the ingredients clearly identifiable, attractive and their relationship, one to another, clear for all to see.
In starting this site, I set as a goal to practice what I preach (or as some would put it slightly less elegantly - "eating your own dog food"): to apply the principles of information architecture that I argue for in my daily work. I hope the result is a clean, scalable, project that remains easy to navigate and read. This also means that it should be able to evolve irrespective of the technologies deployed in creating and developing the site further. Only time will tell..