April 7th, 2009
Exponent Community Shout Out for April
This month, for our first installment of the Exponent Community Shout Out, we're tipping our hat to Maia Good: an avid Exponent user, promoter, contributor, designer, developer, and all around web savant.
Maia has been an active member of the community since its inception back in 2004, participating heavily in building the community ever since. You'll undoubtably know Maia best as maiagood in the Exponent forums. Maia participates daily in helping to solve whatever issues arise. Maia has also written a very detailed theming tutorial for the 0.97 release .
Focusing her attention closely on accessibility, Maia's sites reflect that attention to detail with excellent content structure. “ is one of my favorite sites because of how well I structured the content, and how easy it is to navigate, especially for a bilingual site," Maia starts. "I also like the variety of types of content – text, photos, videos - all shown in a pleasing, and easy to find way on . is a very simple, very effective with comments both on news and movies. I guess I'm biased on this one because I also like the movies content a lot.”
“Exponent is simple to use whether you are a designer / web developer or a person managing content updates.” Maia said when asked what she likes most about Exponent. “As a designer you can define what content to display and how to display it simply creating a Smarty template file which uses the CSS you want, putting it all into your own theme area, and with no need to change core files. As a content manager Exponent allows you to add, modify, and delete content by selecting the appropriate module for the type of content you are working with, whether it's a FAQ, or a calendar of events, in a WYSIWYG environment, there's no need to learn a different interface.”
Aside from spending an exorbitant amount of time playing with all things Exponent, Maia has done (and still continues to do) quite a bit of traveling in her life. “We have a home in Maryland, and currently one in Turkey. I have traveled extensively. I have been to over 30 different countries and have lived in six of them (Brazil, US, Germany, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey) for more than one year,” says Maia.
Recently, (OIC Group, we're re-branding [new site in the works]) asked Maia if she would help us out by taking the reins as the Exponent Community Lead. She's since been very busy and was instrumental in working with us to get the 0.97 release out the door.
On behalf of us here at OIC Group and the rest of the Exponent Community, we say thanks a million Maia! Exponent wouldn't be what it is without you.
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