The more I get involved in this project, the more I realize how fall it shorts of its full potential. I wish I had some more knowledge before I started this project. Right now, it's not "adding feature modules," it's "hack the code so stuff works." Not a good method of managing a site. Especially since the hacking method will eventually lead to a hard to manage site.

In any case, I ramble. The new project I'm working on has very close ties to Tabulas - you might also consider it a spinoff of Tabulas. Since starting this project, I've come to realize that I can't make Tabulas "your all in one solution." Besies being a programming nightmare, it's hard to manage all the features under one easy-to-use UI.

Furthermore, there's not an aura of "technical perfection" on this site. The code is messy, almost nothing is standards compliant, and there's no documentation.

Until I fix these issues, I can't get Tabulas up on the playing field. As Typepad releases tomorrow, I have to realize that "yes, there are better sites" on the web. But there's very little I can do against Typepad. I'm running up against two people with greater devotion and time than me. Furthermore, half of the Typepad team hs years of experience over me in programming. I cannot win.

So what do I do? I continue to do what i do. I chug along, making stuff slowly better, until one day I can sit back and say, "Damn this is a good product."

But I can't let myself be overwhelmed. There's pages and pages of stuff to fix and make better, but I have to take it slowly. Knock down one bug, add one feature ...

Eventually Tabulas will rock even more.