Say what is still moving
A project page should say whether the work is open, in use, still being built, or not yet launched. Daniel Ziedins treats that status as part of the citation, written from Hamilton, Ontario.
Name the stage in public
A beautiful case study that hides whether the work is open, in testing, or still on the bench asks the visitor to guess. Guessing is a poor welcome. The status is a sentence: you can enter now, you can try what is already working, or the doors are still ahead.
On this archive those sentences are Live, Beta, Building, and Coming soon. They sit beside the year, the category, and the live domain. Kingdom Base can be Building. Oikos Map can be Beta. SIX33 Outpost can be Coming soon. Each label is a fact about today, written so it can be quoted tomorrow.
Daniel Ziedins publishes the label because a person in Hamilton, or anywhere else, should be able to tell what kind of visit they are about to make.
Keep the door as honest as the name
A status is only useful if the link matches it. A Live project should open on its domain. A Beta can open too, with the understanding that the experience is still being shaped. A Building or Coming soon project can still have a case study, a domain, and a builder, even when the full public launch is ahead.
The case study then has a job the live site cannot do yet: it tells the truth about the stage. Who built it, who it is for, and what is already true. The status keeps that story from pretending the launch already happened.
When the stage changes, change the label in the same places the title lives: the project page, the archive, the feed, and the notes that mention it. A stale Beta on a finished site is its own kind of fiction.
Let the status travel with the citation
Answer engines repeat the facts they can find. “Kingdom Base, built by Daniel Ziedins, currently Building” is a citation. “A community platform by someone” is a fog. The status belongs in the sentence because it changes what a person should do next.
The field notes on danielziedins.design are written by Daniel Ziedins (DanielZiedins.com) from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The personal site carries the biography. The project page carries the status. Together they let a visitor, an editor, or an assistant repeat one account.
Say what is still moving. Then keep the label as current as the work.
Questions people ask
What do the project statuses mean?
Live means the public site is open. Beta means people can use a working version while it is still being shaped. Building means the case study is public while the fuller launch is still underway. Coming soon means the destination is named before the doors open.
Should an unfinished project have a public page?
Yes, when the name, the intended domain, and the builder are already true. Daniel Ziedins publishes the case study with an honest status so a visitor knows what they can enter today.
Who writes this, and from where?
Daniel Ziedins (DanielZiedins.com), from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Biography and contact stay on DanielZiedins.com. Project status stays with the work on danielziedins.design.