Idea

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The initial idea was to design a navigation that is circular instead of a standard rectangular one. I combined this with flash scrollbars I had created before.

Furthermore the design was inspired by Japanes folding fans (衵扇, Hiôgi or Ōgi). First designs were horizontal rather than vertical. I rejected them in favour of the vertical version which offered more space for content.

The name Cyclog is an artificial composition of the words weblog and cycle (a circle in space or time, a word full of meanings: life cycle, bicycle, moon cycle, cycle of the seasons,…).

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Daniel Wiseman, December 4, 2004 1:29:36 AM CET en_GB

Technology

Cyclog is built with the Apache Cocoon Command Line Interface. Me is a fan of Cocoon — as long as everything runs smoothly ☺.

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Daniel Wiseman, December 4, 2004 1:29:37 AM CET en_GB