Monthly Archives: September 2005

There’s rarely a time I don’t have an aging ‘to do’ list of items to post or infrastructure pages to update on the site. One item from that list I finished today — posting the comments from the Locus polls earlier this year, which I’d gotten permission from Locus HQ to post back in July. But the trip to Worldcon and Europe beyond, and then the resultant catch-up period following, delayed attention to that until this week. Another, even more lingering item: the Directory page for magazine issues, which I’d let lapse over a year ago. I posted that page for 2005 this evening, though in bare-bones form; it still needs gathering off-site review links, from SF Site, Tangent Online, etc. (You’ll find that page via the drop-down under Directories on the homepage.)

Some comments on TV shows next time.

It was a strange weekend, this past weekend, with Monday a holiday; for 15 years or more I’ve always been away at Worldcon over this weekend, which usually overlaps my birthday (on August 30), so that casual friends have gotten used to never thinking about my birthday, since I’m never around when it happens. It’s just as well; I’m not a party person.

A couple quick notes — I’ve gotten absolutely no feedback, for or against, about the little javascript drop-down menus I installed on the homepage last week. I think they’re pretty cool, and might add them in a couple other places, unless I hear some reason not to.

As for Katrina, beyond the posts I’ve already done, I expect nothing more. It’s being handled better by others. I did have a submission by one of my contributors on the subject, over the weekend, until he decided to withdraw it. It may morph into something else.

More later.

Today’s tweak of the homepage design is to add javascript drop-down menus to the archive headings at the top of the center pane of the homepage; instead of just reaching the archive pages by clicking on the headings, if you hover over them — or actually, hover over the downward pointing chevrons next to them — little drop-down menus appear containing links to the latest, or most important recent, items within that section.

As usual with such newer technology, older browsers may not support it, but I think the only negative consequence of this implementation is that older browsers would simply not display the drop-down menus… the links to the archive pages would still be valid. As always, if you or any of your team notice any problems or unforeseen negative consequences, you’re urged to notify the webmaster …