THE ENTITY
butterpaper.com is run by Peter Johns, a Melbourne architect (now non-practising) and web developer (2001-). The Butter Paper web practice has been in business from 2002-2005 and 2010 ongoing. Opinions on this website do not represent opinions of this practice.
THE WEBSITE
Butterpaper.com is a website in perpetual development. It started in April 2000 (as Zebra ) and was an exercise in organising an unwieldy array of bookmarks, and mentioning small items of news discovered in the print press.
Butter Paper grew to thousands of links and blog posts in many categories, vainly attempting to provide a library of some architectural sites in the australasian region. This architects directory has now been mostly retired.
More recently I’m just trying to keep its rather old infrastructure functioning, but have occasionally been adding new content as well as things I’ve published elsewhere.
Butter Paper welcomes any feedback, propositions, articles, news, coffee. Anything really.
ADVERTISING
This website was accepting internet advertising before Google and social media destroyed the market. Posts on this website are generally independent and unsponsored. If a post promotes a sponsor, this will be noted explicitly.
THE FORUM
The public forum was active from about 2003 to 2014. It is currently closed and offline.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Butterpaper is eternally grateful to the labours of the open source community responsible for much of the nuts and bolts of the site. These include the Textpattern content management system , Lussumo’s Vanilla forum , Simplepie RSS integration , MySQLand Mariadb databases, and the PHP server-side scripting language. Not to mention the many add-ons and plugins that have helped to customise the site. Thanks also to the crew at Ilisys web hosting between 2002 and 2014, and to Micron21 since 2021.
Thanks for your visit.
Peter Johns, 2025
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by Peter 04.06.12