Journal organization, part 2 April 1, 2008
Posted by chorenn in Miscellaneous.trackback
You might notice a new look to the journal. Once I started adding stuff to the sidebar, I started to dislike the old theme because of the way it displayed the sidebar headers. So, I’ve chosen a new look, and we’ll see how this goes. I’m not sure I’m fond of the vertically-squeezed webpage layout that’s so popular nowadays, and I don’t know about this tiny font (isn’t the point of a public web journal is to make it easy for people to read what you write?), but I’ll see if they grow on me.
I’ve added my first session journal entry, which you can see on the right, just under “About this journal.” The “Campaign Journal” page will have links to all of these session entries, organized into either the “past” (old sessions) or “present” (current sessions). I’ll also have inter-session entries, meaning discussions of offline “sessions” held with usually only one player to take care of something personal (sometimes these things are held entirely in email). I noticed the need for this while writing the current session entry — many of the things mentioned in it stem from some inquiries that Sparrow made on his own time.
The “Campaign Journal” page will always have the links to the session entries, but I plan to remove the session entries from the sidebar as they get old and new ones get added. You can always refer to the sidebar to see what’s new (or to see just how much of a slacker I’ve been).
At this point, everything except the session entries will be kept in the main blog, just like I’ve been doing before. Perhaps, as I write more and complete more things, I’ll organize them in the sidebar a bit better (the list of player characters comes to mind). Any other suggestions, comments, and criticisms about the organization and presentation of this journal are welcome!
I honestly like the new looks. For the details, they are a bit harder to read, I have the feeling the font is a bit smaller and here on my laptop at work it’s quite an adventure to figure every thing out, once you’ve been through a whole working day.
Still I’m looking forward to read the Journal pages soon and a lot more.
keep this nice thing up and working, it’s a great read!
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Markus
I think what I’d like is for the main text font to be a bit darker and 1 point larger, and the sidebar font to be 1 or 2 points larger. I’ll be looking at the CSS sometime soon to modify it, and buy the custom CSS upgrade. $15 a year isn’t a bad price.