what does everyone think about giving this place a little more class? i put the idea to dave today, and he seemed passively resigned to it. i took that as a yes. what i'm thinking is to put together our own layout, one that's a little more accessible, maybe organized topically. my thinking is that this will make it a lot easier for any potential readers other than ourselves to navigate it, and to take it seriously.
and that brings me to the more important point, which is that i'd like to get other readers. this is a good thing to point future employers to, especially for those of us with an interest in journalism. we've managed to keep it going for a while, now, with a fairly consistent rate of contributions. what does everyone think? should we go, if not the big, then mid-size time?
i'm no designer, and no web programmer, but i am willing to learn all these skills. if people agree with me that this is not an unworthy undertaking, i would appreciate any and all input on what the thing should look like. i was thinking that we have a few simple topic headings, a la a newspaper: economy, politics, fiction, the things ben puts into his butt, etc. underneath these could be the titles of recent posts and maybe a sentence or two from each. on the right or left side, we could keep a list of contributors; the archive, rss links and everything else would read right-to-left next to the blog's title.
the aesthetics are still dim in my mind. dave and i made the profound decision that white would be good for the background. i'm thinking, as i mentioned earlier, of a newspaper-y vibe. keep the layout simple; use as few colors as possible.
que piensan, chorographicos?
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Since most things do eventually end up in my butt, I'm not sure it would be wise to make what would inevitably become an all-inclusive category out of that unless you're all happy with just one.
ReplyDeleteActually, make that two. I generally do not put Canadian politics in my butt.
Otherwise, I am game from putting some fatty new rims on the Chorography. Unfortunately, beyond my moral support and a self-taught crash course in 1999-style HTML I gave myself in preparation for Laura Conaway to advise me to spend my summer getting drunk, I have very little to offer.
Also, if we all truly are interested in pointing potential employees to this site, we may want to stop making quite so many jokes about Michael Ignatief in my butt or death threats to Adam Davidson (I'm looking at you, Lion). I don't want to be a narc or anything.
Really, I don't. In many ways, I really prefer to keep talking about Michael Ignatief in my butt. But I'm just suggesting that that may be the logical conclusion of legitimaxing this thing.
Lion, let me know if you need any flashing subtitles on Milton Friedman's penis. You have my number.
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ReplyDeleteBen only puts Canadian women's strap-ons in his butt, not Canadian politics.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about formatting and maybe a little more organization, though. I also think that it might be nice if we could sort posts by contributor.
Can I put in my 0.02 for less orange? For some reason the particular shade seems really jarring to me. I vote for purple, but I can understand why that may not be popular.
If you want, I can start a campaign around campus - you know, print up a bunch of posters with the URL and stick them places. That might get us somewhere.
Also, if we're going to somehow convince strangers to start reading but then actually continue reading our blog, we all have to update more often.
ReplyDeleteIt's the sad troof.
I tried to write a long, funny comment, and then I wasn't logged in, so I tried to copy it, but then I didn't, and I lost the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteSol, joo have nice pussy. I hope that that makes up for everything.
I'll do a mock-up of what I'm thinking of for this garbage heap and post it over the weekend. Hope you all like white and black, because you ain't but got no choice in the thing.
I can make a spiffy Favicon which is the little 16x16 pixel thing next to the URL in your address bar. I've been doing that for my bookmarks because I am extremely anal retentive and am fussy about what the nerds call "screen real estate."
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