The underlying structure of Crowd Fusion is definitely out of prototype, through alpha and solidly Beta.  Brian and I spent last Thursday going over the Elements of Crowd Fusion and the Inbound and Outbound linking structure connecting each element to one another.   Needless to say it answered some nagging questions about the interplay between things like media and news and allowed me to 'finalize' how galleries and project pages will be handled on this site.

An example of this inter-connectivity is when you go to an individual project page like Crowd Fusion you get a synopsis and a list of what I'm writing in regards to that project. These are much more defined relationships than simple tags.  Within the CMS you have the ability to specify these relationships to the individual content that you are working with and configure the output to your liking.

Galleries are similar to project pages but instead of linking writing to pages you are linking media.  In the case of Fall FIshing with Rob, the media are photos.   Having media as a separate element that is linked  into content allows for the creation of different viewing methods very simple with our templating language.

• /galleries/ gives a list of galleries with thumbnails.
• /gallery/fall-fishing-plum-gut-with-rob/ shows the gallery information larger photos.
• /media/2008/01/28/early-morning-with-rob/  is a permalink for each media item.

Comments are an element to themselves and can be linked to any other element.  So a complete comment thread could be left on a gallery or on the individual media item.  For my pages I'd rather not have comments on the galleries, so I left it out of the template.