Design within the verge
Sep. 11th, 2006 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI've been thinking a lot about the redesign of the Pendorwright site and have been trying to wrap my haed around the basic concepts. It's not that the site "looks old": actually, I kind of like the 2002 design, personally. It's white and crisp and that splash of color on the left, when read in depth, says something important: I value my privacy and I'll value yours as well.
I've been playing with a whole bunch of ideas but, really, the original site's design worked pretty well, all things considered. But I have to address a few realities, both as a designer and as a writer, in addressing the serious move to a new server.
Here's what I'm thinking: I'd like to ditch some things. First, there are plenty of sites out there that now offer the What to say to the police section. I'd toss out my webdesign and code sections and put those on a different website, one that I use to sell something other than the stories. Pendorwright is for the Journal Entries and writing in general, not about my less-than-l33t design skills. The site needs a re-alignment and a revision in accordance with 2006 CSS and XHTML, but I'm trying to resist the new color scheme.
I am planning on installing a mediawiki, where each story will get its own wiki page, as will each character, setting, major events, and even concepts and organizations (such as The Fall, The Taboo, Wish's Children, Singularity Firewalls, and so on). One thing I did settle on this morning is that the HTML story pages will not be static. I wrestled long and hard with this one and decided that there were far too many benefits from generating the stories on the fly, such as search term highlighting and external link decoration (not to mention the inevitable return of Swedish Chef Mode).
Now to find the time to do it all.
(Oh, and if you think the title of the song is long and pretentious, the album it comes from is entitled The Transmutations Of Supposed Angels Or Beings That Once Were Girls.)
I've been playing with a whole bunch of ideas but, really, the original site's design worked pretty well, all things considered. But I have to address a few realities, both as a designer and as a writer, in addressing the serious move to a new server.
Here's what I'm thinking: I'd like to ditch some things. First, there are plenty of sites out there that now offer the What to say to the police section. I'd toss out my webdesign and code sections and put those on a different website, one that I use to sell something other than the stories. Pendorwright is for the Journal Entries and writing in general, not about my less-than-l33t design skills. The site needs a re-alignment and a revision in accordance with 2006 CSS and XHTML, but I'm trying to resist the new color scheme.
I am planning on installing a mediawiki, where each story will get its own wiki page, as will each character, setting, major events, and even concepts and organizations (such as The Fall, The Taboo, Wish's Children, Singularity Firewalls, and so on). One thing I did settle on this morning is that the HTML story pages will not be static. I wrestled long and hard with this one and decided that there were far too many benefits from generating the stories on the fly, such as search term highlighting and external link decoration (not to mention the inevitable return of Swedish Chef Mode).
Now to find the time to do it all.
(Oh, and if you think the title of the song is long and pretentious, the album it comes from is entitled The Transmutations Of Supposed Angels Or Beings That Once Were Girls.)
Good idea
Date: 2006-09-12 09:53 am (UTC):)