Where to Begin?

So, now that I have a basic site up and running, what next? Things in my todo list (in no particular order):

  • Visual design (see separate list below)
  • Comments/trackback
  • Blogroll
  • RSS feed1
  • Setup a logfile analyis tool
  • gzip compression
  • Write!
  • improve the wikieditish flavour. I want to add links to insert em dashes, en dashes, etc., add a preview mode2, and clean up the textile help I copied from the Textile homepage.

1 Technically, I already have an RSS feed, thanks to the wonders of Blosxom’s flavour system, and the built in RSS flavour. I’ve even made a tweak so it will validate. But I intend to do more.

2 In fact, I want to go one better than preview mode. The idea is a ‘publish’ checkbox. If checked, works just like now. If not, the file is saved as something.txt~. Will have to do some tinkering so wikieditish can still display the ~ version.

Most of the above are just a plugin away. I just love Blosxom! Even gzip compression just became available today as a plugin.

The visual design I’ve already begun, and continue to play with. Todo’s here include:

  • Fonts (!)
  • Fix IE rendering (ugh)
  • Tweak right-side ‘panelets’ color scheme, sizing
  • Improve rendering of story titles and panelet titles
  • Overall negative space tweaking

I’ve reading up as well. I have Zeldman’s Book 3 on order at Amazon. Meanwhile, I’ve been browsing such places as:

3 Full Disclosure: I have enrolled in the Amazon Associates Program. The provided link to Amazon.com includes reference to this site. I will get a kickback if you buy through this link.

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Posted August 18th, 2003 at 7:39 am No Comments »

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