Checked out your Pandamian alpha/demo. Very nice Table of contents is a bit out of style – looks like my own FrontPage Express hack-ups ;o) Guess it ain’t the final version?

Other than that, it’s damn good work already. Sure, it’s an alpha, but every page oozes the IDEA of making it effortless to read a book; clean, intuitive and instantly “masterable”. Many interface designers could learn a lot just by looking at your alpha!!!

@Yipeng: Thank you! Let’s go change publishing, ae?! :)

@Meng: Thank you. I should’ve guessed you’d quote something that puts me to shame! That’s a marvelous (and true!) abstraction of what I said, and in a sentence, to boot!

@P Dugan: thank you.

I’m eagerly–well, strenuously–awaiting for the functional Pandamian. Can’t wait to see how it works.

I had to learn how to use WordPress and Blogger and Drupal, and while they have their good points none of them are easy. I’ve been dragging my feet on learning how to Epub for Kindle and Ipad or whatever because it takes time and energy, and I have enough trouble finding time to write chapters for my stories when I’m busy raising three kids and paying for a mortgage.

Having a place where it’s point and click and finished sounds awesome, I’m really excited to see that Pandamian is finally lifting off. Congrats!

Relative simplicity and a range of attractive themes is what drew me to choose WordPress over other current CMSs. But I’m well aware that I’m relatively tech savvy and even WordPress might confuse other people. If I know what I want I can generally use Google to find a tutorial for it and even so there’s been a couple of times when tweaking my theme has had my hair falling out and I’m sure there are several places where my design could still be smoother.

@Becka: Yes we have. Migration from other digital platforms are trivial – it’s migrations from books, or scans that’s going to be hard. This feature’s not going into the first couple of iterations, though. No point to build bridges when the island itself isn’t attractive, or useful. We have to make sure you’ll want to use Pandamian before we even consider building migration tools.

I know it’s early days, but let’s suppose when you release it it’s so cool that I want to migrate Firebird Fiction to it.

At the moment Firebird Fiction uses WordPress as its CMS, I’m mostly happy with the site design, and it already has over 100 entries with permalinks. As far as I know if I were to migrate to a new CMS I’d lose my design and link structure at the very least. So even if I wanted to migrate I probably wouldn’t unless it was really easy to do so.