With the house empty and a empty DSL line I sat down tonight to get to work on the design for Revision Magazine. Although Brian Gardner's theme is nice and WordPress is powerful; to really get this going Stuart and I decided that we'd need a custom Zine Management System. While he dove into the intricacies of the CodeIgniter framework I decided to tackle the design; aiming for a highly usable design that would put a ton of content right at the reader's fingertips. With this goal in the spot light I'm aiming for a gridded design with the most important items focusing in the top left with everything else spreading away from it in circular patterns. For those of you anxious to see some stuff, screenshots will hopefully come soon.

A little parody on the whole "What would Jesus do?" thing, the WWDD in the title stands for "What would Dirk do?". Pretty simple, huh?

The Opportunity

Brian Gardner recently decided to give away a few copies of his excellent Revolution News Theme, a sub-theme of his quickly growing Revolution Theme. Although few know it, I'm acting as a managing editor of the most unknown online magazine on the planet, Revision Magazine. While still in the formative stages (We don't even have a single issue out yet!), I personally feel that there's a lot of potential to do something really useful and really cool with it. Kind of like a more formal Smashing Magazine, so to say.

The Question

So here's my request:

Dear Brian, Although you've likely already read the first part of the post, I'll give you a little summary of what it says just to annoy you. Although small, Revision Magazine has some potential, and having a high-quality theme such as Revolution News on our front-end would really give us the opportunity to form a great online magazine.

Thanks, Dirk Gadsden