ChapterZero

Even after this last admittedly pathetic revamping of the site, I feel a hankering for a change. This is to be a record of ideas I plan to or am considering implementing at some nebulous time in the future. Or as the saying goes, in my copious free time.

• A professional looking CSS scheme (probably the hardest goal for me to accomplish, lacking any artistic ability whatsoever)
• A PHP-based, modular building-blocks approach to the site architecture. E.g. calling a php header() function to generate the top/nav content found on each page. That way I could update in one place, and see the changes percolate.
• A bookmark submission and organization program, so as I surf, I can add bookmarks on the fly without needing to write them down or email myself.
• Various shortcuts around MT: a way to edit entries without logging in, etc. (kind of defeats the purpose of MT huh?)
• Incredible accessibility and full compliance with the relevant Web standards (which in itself will probably necessitate a rebuilding of the site from the ground up)
• More content (hah! will probably never happen). But if it does, something along the lines of collectedthoughts.com would be nice. Or even a well executed technical site, on something besides Web technologies.
• Usage of DHTML and scripting (might clash with the accessibility requirement?)
• On the back end, someway of determining what pages visitors visited, etc.
• A self-updating list of all the links I post in any of my entries, and click-thru data. The former for convenience, and the latter for the cool factor.
• Definitely, a well-thought out directory layout (the one I have now just fell together of its own accord).
• Much more integration with the third party tools I’m using (for example, with my Burningbook, Agon). Currently I only minimally customize them; ideally, they would also be modularized like the rest of the site, and easily themable.
• Speaking of themes, an easy way to allow a user to choose and apply personal themes would be cool
• …Anything that comes to mind; comments welcome…

Possibly relevant posts:

• Internet road trip (9/27/2002)
• Speedier hosting Real Soon Now… (1/9/2002)
• MIT Open Courseware (10/29/2003)