It’s been several years since I attempted a redesign of my curricular website, which holds trusty old handouts, some of which I tweak on a regular basis, and some of which I haven’t touched in years. I’ve been thinking a lot about navigation and layout, especially now that most people’s computer monitors have fairly high resolution, and the growing number of widescreen monitors is opening up some space on the right-hand side of my web pages, which I hadn’t previously been using. I’ve already put a “recent related entries” feature on the individual blog entry pages (the system selects those automatically based on category… it’s not perfect, becuase it doesn’t weight more heavily an entry that shares three cateogries as more similar to an entry that just shares one category with the current entry, but it’s better than nouthing).
I was reading a Washington Times article on the press coverage of Obama’s doings, when I noticed this widget.
To my mind, the collapsing menu thing is done better at the Evening Standard, where the panels will glide open when you hover the mouse pointer over the title. (Horrors! I just checked, and the mouse-over menu at the Evening Standard doesn’t appear to be working anymore.)
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing.
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters.
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve…
Nothing in this stack is pressing, but they do include rough drafts of final papers,…