Deploy*

Another question I get frequently is, why the name Deploy*. When I was thinking of a name, deploy was the perfect word.

The New Oxford Dictionary says deploy(verb) means: “bring into effective action; utilize”.

Deploy* trys to bring your web project into effective action and ready to be utilized to create the project right away without the hassle of creating a template (x)html, css, or download the latest jQuery version and create directories.

The “*” comes from the regexp idea of “all” or “everything”. I wanted a way to say, deploy any web project framework. I wanted to keep it minimal enough for a designer to use, but robust to use for a jQuery plugin developer to start on his lastest idea for a jQuery plugin right away before he looses his train of thought.

I hope this clears up any confusion.

Short answer, it’s both.

Long answer, Project Deploy* is the web site that hosts Deploy*. The reason the site has the logo “deploy*” on this web site and blog is because Deploy* is the web application that runs on projectdeploy.org. When you download Deploy* you are downloading Deploy* from the project’s home, projectdeploy.org.

I know a few of you have had this question, so I thought I’d clear it up.

• Better navigational system for people who want to upload this with more than 4 pages.
• Created a monthly cookie which will not show the intro text with the red download button that was on the home page if the user closes it. I thought it was annoying every time I came back and makes it prettier.
• Deleted the updates.html file
• Changed Send us a message to contact in the navigation

This is an update that was before the blog was up, but here it is for information sake as was the version 1.1 update:

• Cleaner code
• Added comments to almost all of the code
• Added a readme file for UNIX and Mac OS X users
• Added a sitemap.xml file

This is a version update before the blog was up. Just for information sake, I’ll post this update for information sake:

• Added meta tags
• Added Fluid.app support
• Cleaned up some code
• Deleted unused files
• Added a robots.txt file

Alright, I got my blog up and running with the latest version of Wordpress. Like always, installed within 5 mintues.

The blog is put up mostly for updates to code, let users know about Deploy* 2.0, additions to the video section, and just overall news. I’m working on bringing everyone Deploy* 2.0 which should give anyone any framework they want.