I've finally done it and built a YourHead forum. Go check it out.

Why do you need your own forum? Isn't RapidWeaver enough?
As RapidWeaver users you probably know how great the RapidWeaver forum is. If you don't then you owe it to yourself to go check it out. It IS great. But...
As YourHead has added more users it's become obvious that we're answering the same questions over and over again in our support email. And no amount of posting it to the RapidWeaver forum or putting it in our reference material really helps, because no one reads the manual or uses the forum search. The hope is that because our forum is just for YourHead plugins and is broken down in a way that organizes our information a bit more, that people will find the answers they need quickly and easily.

Are you afraid that you might diminish the RapidWeaver forum?
Yes. But just a little bit. As the first and one of the more prolific of the plugin makers (Loghound has a bunch too, go check it out), I'm a tad worried about diminishing the plugin forum. However my hope is that important things will be cross posted. Also, it might be a way for the smaller plugin developers to not be overshadowed by Blocks, Accordion, PlusKit, Blocks, Accordion, PlusKit all the time. So maybe it's a good thing.
That said, I have equal fear that the forum will be lost in a sea of YourHead links and will never amount to much traffic. In that case, at least it's got some FAQs that I've pre-populated it with. So it should be useful even if no one actually posts.

Is your forum perfect?
No. We're new to this. I've installed a forum that's similar (although it is quite different too) to the one over at RealMacSoftware. So hopefully everyone will feel right at home. But I think there's a long way to go in customization. I'd really like to hear from the more forum savvy users out there. Tell me what I need. (OK, I already know I need an RSS feed. I'm working on it.) But what else?

Why are you asking yourself questions?
Because I've been writing FAQs for the past few hours and now my brain is stuck that way. Hopefully it will pass.

Anything else?
Yep. We've done a bit of detailing on the old web site theme. Some new backgrounds, some details honed, better compatibility with IE, and some faster downloading images. Let us know what you think. My wife says that the new background pattern is "too random." What do you think?

You can tell the the folks at Microsoft have totally lost it. It looks like they're planning to ship out IE 7 to all users via software update. Now keep in mind, my Mac loving friends, that in Microsoft-land when the big MS hands down an update your computer complies -- resistance is futile. Well unless you're behind a big giant firewall, but even then it's iffy.

This means that the large majority of Web users will wake up one morning and be using a totally different browser. Wow. That's going to be a fun IT day.

Don't get me wrong, I think IE 7 is a big step forward for our slow-learning friends from Redmond. I think some of the features will bring it up to pace with the rest of us who have been happily viewing PNGs and don't really know how to surf without tabs anymore.

But the devil is in the details. And the details of all the browsers are different. Which is why tons and tons of web sites have browser specific CSS/HTML/Javascript, etc. And my guess is that some of that code, somewhere, might just misbehave a tad. Now replicate that effect a few million times and... hilarity ensues.

Things are quite a bit quieter than I expected. Columns, for how simple a plugin it is, had a much more boisterous bunch of people hounding me for bug fixes. Perhaps it's that I've got a ways to go with Blocks that people aren't so up in arms about the bugs. Maybe they're too busy playing with it to talk about it. Maybe they've all gone to use iWeb.

There hasn't been much news for a while. I've been pretty much absent from the blog since MacWorld. Don't worry, I haven't given up and started using iWeb or something crazy like that. In fact nothing could be further from the truth. I've been staying up late coding as fast as I can type!

As is usual for a MacWorld, I've been inspired to do something bigger. This year I was inspired by RapidWeaver and encouraged to find that iWeb is probably not going to change the RapidWeaver market too much.

I'm working on a new plugin, something quite a bit different than the others. I've just sent out my first distribution to a few (un)lucky folks for comment. I'm not going to let out too much though, because it's still changing so fast. But will let you see the new icon. What do you think?