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Notes on Pending Redesign

August 23, 2004

In and among my dozen or so projects (freelance, performing, learning Flash for some goddamn reason, housecleaning, writing, trying to resist picking up Doom3) I have plans for a redesign of this site. In theory I'd like to keep it simple, to get it done sooner, but I'm not making any promises. Here's a general list of needs and goals I'm hoping to include.

• No tables, just like the old days.
• No YELLOW.
• featured projects / events, to give more weight/value to my other pursuits (see stopdesign)
• more subtle "keeping busy" list, for my own purposes
• photo of the day / or photo blog incorporated into layout.
• integration with flickr
• well structured CSS, like the old days. simple. markup even more semantic than usual.
• a content randomizer, to dynamically load icons / links to old episodes, static content, favorite posts. Pachaged PHP scripts, or do I need to learn that too? Could be nested randomized includes, but that sounds sketchy. Ideas?
• no popup comments.
• streamlined Moveable Type CSS and classses.
• Fitts law for links to major sections. (see mezzoblue)
• Cute icons for section links (Adobe CS, mezzoblue, others?)
• huge date-based archive of all weblog entries ever since my permalinks began. (sure, kid. but gosh, i sure would use it.)
• modular approach to the process, so I can go live without everything finished but keep moving forward.
• careful use of includes to keep Dreamweaver parts Dreamweaverable
• run through stat failure reports to fix old missing pages
• searchable? PROBABLY NOT
• banner oriented for easy doocey look-and-feel swaps
• More whitespace
• style background widget for blockquotes
• XHTML Strict
• Get added to this page.

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