For Fans of the Journal Entries, a few Questions...

[elfs]

So, I have bought a co-lo. It was pretty cheap, and I don't make any promises about it's efficiency or reliability, but I am hoping it'll be faster than the site at Drizzle. The official opening date will be July 1st, at the current schedule, provided no further disasters happen between now and then. Along with the move I'm hoping to update the look and feel of the website, and provide some more interesting functionality to the system.

The obvious answer to all the questions I'm about to ask is "Just provide it and see if anyone uses it," but I'd like to get a general feel: Would you like to see a Wiki for the Pendorverse (and should there be one Wiki for the Pendorverse and another for the Aimee' series)? Should I move my blog there and use something more familiar, like Wordpress? I'll have 3GB of storage rather than 10MB (yes, that's what I'm limited to) so there will be room for other formats (PDF? PalmDoc? What else?) as well as complete ZIP collections in those formats? How about an RSS feed of the story index, so you'll know when there's a new one easily? Would you guys use a forum to discuss the stories, or not?

The question really comes down to: what should I spend my time establishing on the new server?

Comments

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

The primary offender is Internet Explorer. If a file is served as html+xml, it disables progressive rendering, and fails to display the page at all if it does not parse correctly. The difference between HTML and XHTML is mostly wank, as I see it; unless you depend on being able to parse HTML as XML (which is silly: HTML is presentational, while XML is generally not), the latter provides no extra functionality and adds an unnecessary level of pedantry.