A Million Little Pieces Of My Mind

Changes for March 16-17, 2026

By: Paul S Cilwa Posted: 3/17/2026 Page Views: 22
NamtiraMyWeb wizard completed; platform-wide rename from Organica to Namtira; Namtira landing site created; NamtiraLib distribution packages; automatic site version numbering; section CSS cascade system added.
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NamtiraMyWeb Wizard Completed

The NamtiraMyWeb wizard application reached feature completion with all nine pages built and integrated. The wizard collects everything needed to generate a new NamtiraWeb site: source and target paths, site identity, color scheme, theme images, fonts, ownership, feature flags, and layout options, ending with a summary/review page and a Generate button.

Wizard pages completed in this session:

  • Page 4: Fonts—heading, body, and code font selectors with live preview labels
  • Page 5: Ownership—copyright year, holder name, and license type
  • Page 6: Features—checkboxes for search, RSS, comments, sitemap, and analytics
  • Page 7: Design—layout style, sidebar position, breadcrumbs, and footer toggles
  • Page 8: Summary—read-only review of all settings with a Generate button

The application builds without errors. The Frame manages all pages and Back/Next navigation. A status bar at the bottom of the frame displays the current NamtiraLib version.

Platform-Wide Rename: Organica → Namtira

The entire Namtira platform was renamed from "Organica" to "Namtira" after the organica.com domain was found to be held by a cybersquatter. Every occurrence of the old name was updated: folder names, file names, namespaces, project names, assembly names, code, and prose content across all projects and the website.

Scope of changes:

  • Projects folder reorganized to Projects/(Namtira)/ with all sub-projects renamed
  • 24 Namtira.ini navigation files renamed from the old name
  • All NamtiraAudio.js script references updated site-wide
  • All internal .vbproj references updated to the new paths and names
  • All prose documentation on the site updated throughout the Namtira section

A blanket 301 redirect was added to Global.asax.vb: any incoming URL containing "Organica" (but not already "Namtira") is redirected to the corrected URL via Regex.Replace, preserving deep links from any old bookmarks or external references.

Namtira Platform Naming

The umbrella name "OrganicaWeb" was retired. The full platform is now called Namtira, consisting of three components: NamtiraWeb (the web framework, currently active), NamtiraExplorer, and NamtiraDesktop. NamtiraMyWeb is the creation and migration wizard for NamtiraWeb sites.

Namtira Landing Site

A new bare-minimum ASP.NET 4.8 web project was created at Desktop 3/Websites/Namtira/ as a target for testing NamtiraMyWeb. It consists of a single HTML landing page explaining the Namtira platform and the name change from Organica, a Visual Studio solution file, and a .vbproj matching the NamtiraWeb project structure. Publishing configuration was copied from NamtiraWeb.

NamtiraLib Distribution Packages

Two downloadable zip archives were added to the NamtiraLib Getting Started page: NamtiraLib-Source.zip (the full Visual Studio solution) and NamtiraLib-Compiled.zip (just the DLL and debug symbols). The page includes browser security warning guidance for each platform and step-by-step extraction instructions.

Automatic Site Version Numbering

A new GetLibraryVersion() function was added to NamtiraLib, returning the last-modified timestamp of the compiled assembly as a yyyy.MM.dd string. The NamtiraLib Test Bed displays this in a status bar at the bottom of its main window.

The SiteVersion constant in Site.Master.vb was replaced with a read-only property that reads the last-write timestamp of the site's own compiled assembly—updating automatically on every publish without any manual version bump.

The NamtiraLib DLL cannot be directly referenced by a .NET Framework 4.8 web application because NamtiraLib targets .NET 10. The shared utility code—NamtiraDates.vb, NamtiraFiles.vb, and NamtiraStrings.vb—is instead compiled directly into the site by linking the source files in the project file.

Section CSS Cascade

A new GenerateSectionCSS() function was added to Site.Master.vb. On every page request it walks up from the current page's directory to the site root, collecting every Customize.css file found along the way. All matches are emitted as cache-busted <link> tags in the <head>, ordered from root to leaf so deeper files cascade over shallower ones.

This allows any section of the site to have its own visual identity—custom banner, colors, fonts, or layout—simply by dropping a Customize.css into that folder. Subsections can further refine the look by adding their own. Pages with no ancestor Customize.css are unaffected. The first use of this feature is Contents/Computers/35.Namtira/Customize.css, which applies a custom background and banner image to the entire Namtira section.