The corndancer.com website
is an internet-based laboratory
created to facilitate the dynamic development
of computer language skill sets,
business success concepts and formulas,
e-commerce seed projects,
and web database design and management.
The site provides an unfettered venue
for writers to publish without corporate constraint
and to archive written works for their readers.
It provides online gallery space
for artists and artisans to display their creations.
For each of the practitioners who fashion its content,
corndancer.com is a gateway
into the Great Game
of Ideas, Persuasion, and Consequence.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Windy and unwieldy is this page,
an informal apologetic for the website.
The narrative drifts from fragment to fragment,
offshoot to channel,
in the attempt to span then-ago to nowadays.
It is a timeline of sorts, a history.
We justify.

corndancer.com
Site Status Report

CURRENT PHASE:
Phase Four: Mitosis and Renewal.
August 1, 2002, through today.

PREVIOUS PHASE:
Three: The Long March.
October 4, 2000, through July 31, 2002.

PREVIOUS PHASE:
Stasis and Consolidation Two.
September 7, 2000, through October 3, 2000.

PREVIOUS PHASE:
Two: The Forty-First Yard.
July 31, 2000, through September 6, 2000.

PREVIOUS PHASE:
Stasis and Consolidation One.
July 27 through July 30, 2000.

PREVIOUS PHASE:
One: The Launch.
July 14 through July 26, 2000.

ASIDE: Upon updating this page in autumn, 2001,
I realize how weary I have become
now that the mainstream is too far removed
from the shore to which I've flown.
This page is spotty at best.

Maintained by Ebenezer Baldwin Bowles
and a byted crew of interns and associates,
the site was launched on Tuesday, July 18, 2000.

Seventy-seven html pages and 61 .jpg images
populated the site on Labor Day.
Corndancer.com contained 14.639 MB of pages, images, and data.
Visitation statistics recorded by DellHost's Windows 2000 Server
reported a sluggish response from the great world beyond.
We average about 50 requests for pages each day.
Site hits, however, are not an issue at present:
We have intentionally hid the site from search-engine crawlers
and avoided active promotions or discovery through meta-tags
because of the site's primitive level of development.

Three areas of corndancer.com were developed
to a reasonably competent level of design and substance:
the Blue Nudes section of the CornDancer General Store,
Chad's Linux subsite,
and Letters from Cricket Song.
The major deficiencies in development were
the sketchy, uneven character of the Small Business Vortex,
the rudimentary visual style of many of the pages,
and the absence of a ruling passion beyond Letters from Cricket Song.
The expansion of that ruling passion, we think,
will impart a discernable sense of identity to the website, so....

....we're working on it.

Of the 21 web pages brought on-line at launch,
20 were written in HTML on Word Pad.
One page was produced by the WYSIWYG feature of Microsoft Word 2000.
Graphic arts elements were created with Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000.

29 HTML pages were active
when the site's presence was announced on July 21, 2000,
in E-mail bulletins to friends and associates
and in links embedded in the first Letter from Cricket Song.
The site contained 49 .jpeg images.
At its core the site's HTML code is sparse,
unsophisticated, and a bit erratic.
The only sophisticated code was produced automatically
in two pages written in Microsoft Word 2000.

A table at the bottom of most pages
indicates the developmental level of the page.
This is the scheme in use:

Empty
Raw (Copy or Design)
Partial Draft
Solid Draft
Mature (Narrative or Design)

The site features four major elements:
Small Business Vortex
Id: This is who we are
Letters from Cricket Song
CornDancer General Store

Developmental Website

Page launched: July 18, 2000	Most recent revision: October 8, 2001
Developmental Level: Solid Draft

By Mutual Agreement to Mutual Advantage.