My idea was to have a two-tone grid/logo that represented the opposing poles of a magnet. The green and amber are very near the same green and amber used on older monochrome monitors. There is also, historically speaking, something of a debate about which is better: green or amber. So not only do the two colors represent the opposing poles of a magnet, but they also represent opposing sides of an argument, which falls in line with the mission of truthmagnet, which is to examine arguments and find the "truth".

Truthmagnet includes a full Content Management System whereby content is uploaded and edited for the site. Each entry is timestamped, and contains at least one link, which is in the title of the entry. If no link is provided, it degrades gracefully. In the archive section, site users can view a listing of previous articles including their "title links".

[update 6/11/2002] I've recently added "themes" to truthmagnet. When new users come to the site they are presented with random themes on each page view, until they choose one as a default. The themes change the title graphic as well as the overall colorscheme for the site. Some of them are (intentionally so) pretty outlandish, which encourages users to explore the themes section and pick a default.

In addition, I've added a bookmark manager to truthmagnet for my own personal use. This allows me to always have access to my bookmarks, regardless of which computer I happen to be using. While I had originally hoped to create a page that I could go to that would automatically grab the last page that I was so that I could add it as a bookmark, it turns out that the DOM doesn't aloow it, for security reasons. Allowing javascript to access the history tables in your browser is a pretty unsafe idea and is simply not possible.

The bookmarks when entered are able to be put into on of the various bookmark "categories" I've setup (like the subfolder in IE), so that the list is managable. I have also included the option of marking a bookmark as a being for frequent use. Frequently used bookmarks appear on the right, the chosen category appears on the left.

Also added to the bookmark page (which is my homepage now), is a google search box, since half the time when I open a browser the first thing I do is go to google. This save me an extra step. As a bonus, the google search results come back to me in the truthmagnet "nebula" theme.