Indexhibit
Index + Exhibit

Twittering

2010-06-16 13:12:23

We've been told we haven't been using our Twitter account responsibly recently. We simply were not even aware that we should be having conversations via the space. We are now, all apologies if we've never responded to your note. We are going to try when we can think of something smart, relevant, intellectual, funny, embarrassing (in a good way) and/or possibly even informational.

Here is our Twitter account - join and tell us our hair looks crazy today.

Tweet, tweet, tweeee...that's probably pretty old by now. ;)

NYC

2010-03-30 18:57:50

We are looking for a small retail business, preferably local to NYC, who is in need to a simple site to display the items/objects from their store. The kinds of shops we have in might could include: butcher, lightbulb shop, small shoe shop, specialized (niche) hardware store, etc. Fees for these services are of no matter. Vaska will be in NYC until mid-April. ;)

Update: Thanks folks, but we've had enough interest in this post - let's consider this one closed.

Make bread with Mark Bittman

2010-02-23 17:21:43

Dan and I have been on a serious Mark 'The Minimalist' Bittman craze the past few months. Like many others, we have been introducing people to the "no knead" bread he introduced over at the NYTimes a couple years ago. It's really a fabulous thing. Watch the video:

We invite you to follow Mark's lead and make your own no knead bread. Send a picture with your name and url to noknead@indexhibit.org and we will compile an exhibit of your makings. Tell your friends - spread the word - make some bread today!

Here is a similar collection of photos of no knead bread at Flickr.

Updated: The New York Times had an interesting article today, Better Bread With Less Kneading.

Make Things - Even an Omelette

2010-02-01 15:58:30

Be. Inspired.

Indexhibit and Flash

2009-09-28 05:02:14

Over the years I've been asked a few times to write a Flash frontend template for Indexhibit. Unfortunately, Flash is not my expertise so it would have taken a considerable amount of time.

But the guys over at apdev recently did just this. We'll allow the link speak for itself:

Flash frontend for Indexhibit CMS

Perhaps this can serve as some inspiration for the Flash folks out there. The full screen mode is quite nice too.

Transparency

2009-09-26 17:09:37

Transparency is a good thing.

We completely recognize that Indexhibit could be a bit more transparent of an organization but, as we've mentioned before, we never expected it to become this ubiquitous. This success has been great, but it's not without its downside.

We just wanted to post a quick note that, although it will take a little time, Indexhibit intends to become more transparent. In particular, the new version will be posted to an SVN before it is officially released. We will welcome people to play with it and offer feedback and even improvements if they have them.

If there is one area where Indexhibit has not been successful it's been in creating a community of participants actively helping out with the core code base, themes, exhibition formats and new plugins. We do plan to launch a new section of our website that will cover all of these things.

The second disappointment that Dan and myself have with this project is that it has become so much about code for many - customizations. It's a bit ironic if you consider the previous paragraph. We have always been conscious about keeping the code away from the site but as of today the lack of code, tutorials, API information, etc., has become a drawback. We are not sure how we will deal with this in the future (many more themes and plugins?) but it's something that has clearly become a sticking point.

We have intended to do this for some time, but there were other projects that pay the bills, and alot of time spent trying to figure out some things (which will become more clear when it happens). We have been confused in the process as well - but we also believed in this process (and still do).

We will make this all much more public soon. Thanks for bearing with us...we really have been hard at work for Indexhibit.

Added critique section to forum

2009-09-25 15:27:43

It seems so simple we don't know why we didn't think of it sooner. We added a 'critique' section to the forum to help people out when they have completed customizing their site. Post it up and the community will tell you what they think and help you work out some code as well. Be brave and remember that a critique is only a critique.

Critique me, please!

September 2009

2009-09-23 13:06:02

Hi Folks:

Despite the relative quiet on Indexhibit, this summer has been a very busy time for us. We're really sorry that we don't communicate directly more often with our blog or on Twitter or on our Facebook group, but there simply is not anything new to say for the moment.

There has been alot of consideration about the nature of this project. It began as a kind of art project and became something larger than we expected. Is Indexhibit a service now? Has Indexhibit become a real business? Do we really need a business plan? How will this shape the future? How did this become a job? Is there something we should be doing now to manage all this growth better? What about 'art'?

And, what about that new version?

Things are moving forward very slowly for the moment while we try to find some answers. At some point, things will move much more quickly again. And, I'm sure we will have so much to say that everybody will get tired of hearing from us again (haha, that's a joke).

Stay tuned...and thanks.

Bonjour

2009-07-06 15:11:30

Just wanted to say an official 'hello' from Indexhibit. For people in the states, and everywhere else too, we hope you had a fantastic 'Independence Day' weekend.

Eatock is wrapping up events at IUAV. Vaska (me) is just trying to keep things moving forward.

I want to thank (again) all the people who support this project with donations, time, links back to the project and those who hire us for customization projects. We wouldn't be here without the help.

The truth about installation and customization projects is that we do very few of them - we are rarely asked and we have to turn down projects that look like they will become endless projects (the developers out there know what I'm talking about). Our hope was that these services would be a beneficial way to partially support my time on this project. I'm helping everyday including weekends for over two years now.

We have to wonder what model will work to strike a balance between sustainability for this project and having to sell advertising space around the site. It's always been our wish that we could remain independent but as the project grows, as our expenses grow, as more and more time is needed to facilitate this project in a meaningful way, we're in need of finding new options.

In the grander scheme of things, Indexhibit is just a blip on the radar (but people tell us differently sometimes). The reality is that the larger projects have massive amounts of venture capital and/or other additional funding - Indexhibit is only supported by users and our own pockets. We certainly would welcome some kind of larger support if we felt it could be beneficial for the users.

The New Version

There has been a tremendous amount of development in the past month and we have been showing it around more liberally. But, there is still much to do as we want to get this right now instead of having to push out painful upgrades in the future. We hope that people will find Indexhibit useful in the future as a longer term solution for display and archiving of their works and also as a tool that can help them replicate their own studio and work patterns via the web.

Enjoy the summer, cheers!

Delete Installation Files

2009-06-09 21:11:08

It's stated in our installation instructions (and I'm about to make it bold and red) but you must delete your install.php file once you have completed your installation. If you have not done this already, do it now. If you don't remember if you've done this, check it now. It's imperative.

The file is found in your 'ndxz-studio' folder.

And since we put out a note about this a couple months ago, be sure you also delete the Password Recovery Script after you are finished using it as well.