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Further and further
So the redesign is almost done, in fact. I need to clean up the page title graphics — I kind of went all over the place in terms of font sizes and spacing — as well as the sidebar, which shouldn’t take so long. I really like the new home page, in fact. It mimicks a book’s table of contents, and cuts out of a lot of unnecessary stuff. The hardest part, I think, to writing these sorts of hypertexts is it’s so easy to become disorganized. Growing things organically is good… but it can be very confusing at first. Initial confusion is ok when you’re telling a story — I guess it’s the principle behind in medias res — but for a straightforward Web page, it’s deadly.
The major upshot of the upcoming front page changes is that I want to use the blog as the sole place where new stories, site changes, etc., will be announced. So that means more of a commitment there from me. I think I can hack it.
The final content I have left to move over and simplify is the Code and Oddments page (which will probably be retitled). It probably needs it the most — there’s all kinds of stuff on there and if you’re a new author, it’s probably really hard to decide what you actually need. The other big simplification is that I’ve finally started to move the Macrocodex over to tiddlywiki.org. Almost all of it will become irrelevant to people who use Jonah when I put out the new release. Because of the ground-up rewrite, the API is totally different (and much simpler! I hope). Anyway, that will take time, it is sort of interesting to get all wiki’d. It’s my first real wiki experience… while Wikipedia is fun to read, I’ve never really bothered trying to edit it.
Finally… I’m thinking of dropping post titles from this blog, because a) I can never think of any cool ones b) who puts titles on their journal entries in real life? It’s all just a mishmash.
Later this week I’m planning to post a review of 6 Sex Scenes. It’s not new or anything, but I just discovered it. In the meantime, you should read it. That’s the one-sentence review for now.
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