Development Blog
The MGU Devblog records the technical side of building Malone Global University. It is a place for documenting website changes, navigation improvements, content-production workflows, design decisions, indexing experiments, static-site maintenance, and lessons learned while expanding the university platform.
These notes are meant to make the development process visible. Some entries may read like formal release notes, while others may function as work logs, troubleshooting records, design reflections, or short explanations of how a specific part of the site was improved.
Devblog Areas
What Belongs Here
Devblog entries should focus on practical development work: what changed, why it changed, what problem was being solved, and what rule or lesson should guide future work. This section is useful for keeping track of decisions that would otherwise be buried in file edits, scripts, chat sessions, local tests, and deployment notes.
Typical entries may include CSS refactors, breadcrumb fixes, header and footer injection updates, page-indexing improvements, new department structures, large content migrations, image-production workflows, textbook pipeline changes, and notes about static-site architecture.
Suggested Entry Format
A strong devblog entry should be specific enough to help the same problem be solved again later. The most useful posts usually identify the problem, explain the intended result, name the root cause, list the steps taken, and record the final rule going forward.
- Problem: What was broken, missing, confusing, or incomplete?
- Goal: What should the page, system, or workflow do instead?
- Cause: Why did the issue happen?
- Fix: What exact changes were made?
- Validation: How was the result checked?
- Rule Going Forward: What should be remembered next time?
Community Purpose
The Devblog belongs in the Community area because website-building is part of the public work of Malone Global University. It shows how the platform grows, how problems are solved, and how a large educational website can be built through steady, documented effort.
Over time, this page can become a record of the university's technical development: not only the finished pages students see, but also the systems, standards, experiments, and revisions that made those pages possible.