Metaplanar Babel

I’ve been working on Serenity for a while now, and I think it’s close enough to being finished that it’s worth pointing it out. Most of it’s major flaws in IE have been fixed. I haven’t checked it in anything else, so I wouldn’t be surprised to find that it breaks down somewhere, but for the two “major” ones, the design works. Sizing up the text in IE still breaks the sidebar; I’m not quite sure what to do about that. Eventually, the sidebar breaks in Firefox too, but you can at least increase the font size twice before it does. Anyway, I’m fairly pleased with how the design has come out so far.

Jennifer from geeksmakemehot asked in my minipost if I was planning to release the theme, which kind of surprised me. I’m nothing like a graphic designer or what-have-you; I never figured anyone would like what I’ve done that much. Regardless, I’m still not sure if I want to or not, because the theme still needs a lot of work, but I guess we’ll see.

On another note, Jon and I were talking last night about the possibility of coming up with some sort of plugin for Wordpress that would allow for cataloging collections of things. I’ve been wanting to do a listing of our movie collection for a while, but I haven’t been able to locate anything that would really help me do that except that plugin that creates a tag to automatically search out titles on imdb or Amazon. I could just use those and keep a huge long Page with all the titles, but I’d really rather do something a little more elegant than that. Our current thought is to try to come up with something that allows multiple collections, so you could have a movie list, a music collection list, book list, or whatever else you could come up with. Some of those would have automatic link generation from IMDB or Amazon. Anyway, one of the things I’ve been thinking about is how one would present data like that. Working in a library has given me something of an appreciation for how hard it is to give a meaningful presentation to large quantities of data. Hopefully we’ll come up with something that’s really cool and works well, but at this point, I think I’ll just hope that we actually do something with the idea, rather than shelving it out of laziness like we usually do.