Sinterance

Part II: exciting ideas and future plans!

okay, the core-y nugget of this idea/vision is pretty cool, i think, and is what will make this thing work, if anything will, as I've wanted/envisioned it to.in fact, now that I'm thinking about it this way, i think it probably wouldn't have been successful the way it was planned before with just straight chronological arrangement/presentation, with the most recent entry the one visitors land on (as 99%of all blogs function). That's because what I think is interesting about this project/story, is a) some of the crazy, extreme hijinks and lows that are, someof them, well in the past, and all of them, unless a visitor comes the day after a spectacular backslidin' relapse, in the past to some degree, and there for not available to make a first impression or any impression at all perhaps, buried, lost, not made most of, etc. and b) recovery in real time as it is figured out, and as the record itself is part of, instrument in that process, and recovery will only be compelling to strangers, and people coming in in middle, etc. as it relates to illness--recovering from what? how far have come? etc.--so, the now with the then together and in same view--which is what my idea is: To have home page display both most recent entry and a somewhat random archival entry. How, exactly this will be executed is still TBD. Will current be always restricted to only the last OFF post (advantage of higher contrast, but also a little different idea, making that side/window a thermoter of progress, marker of furthest gone, place getting back to if off, one end of spectrum)? Will other, historical doc, be one of selected greatest hits that cycle and recycle through, or picked from pool comprising most all entries but each quickly approved, or all of them 100%? Or up to certain number of days or weeks or months ago? Or, always exactly six months or year ago? Probably always from On blog, but could be differently interesting also if taken from both on & off--could see progress in recovery efforts, or trial and error, dfferent strategies, etc. Anyway, I think it'll be really cool tohave two side by side like that. for variety, & comparison, & understanding, & entertainment reasons...

But it'll be difficult given my slaved over precious design. All my extracurricular text snippets take up a shload of real estate, I know that, and yet/because of, I like it. Have though of some options. a) [as much as I truly detest splash pages,...][but this won't exactly be a splash page, since the snippets do work and...] it may have snippets from both homepages combined, may have lots of links (TOC, Archives, individ. blogs, rss & that mumbo jumble, etc) and info, more about whole project and blog--how it works, multi-s the two, etc.--etc etc. so that home page is visually appealling but also full of information and access and is otherwise useful fororientation, etc. Then either a very prominent link to separate page dedicated to the two entries of the day (would non-current entry be same for all users all day? or always random every page hit? i think latter because easier, and more exposure for returning single user--another way to access info, not unlike SG's random photo sampler show--and different ones across users so that they tell each other and then go look for each other's, etc.) (and from their, as well as home page, links to linear, blog-specific entry archives) or page split between two entries belowthe fold (with lots of calling out of that location). or, the idea I'm leaning toward, though if I couldhave my cake and eat it too, i'd have all my snippets and design and info on home page AND two entries side by side. But that's impossible so...next best (?) is one square window that scrolls and is tabbed at top to toggle between most recent and most random. So of course I've over talked this one again, but that's the little gem, but it's really imperfect that one or other text has to be chosen maybe I keep designs for homepages of each blog (because will have th eon and the off separate as are, and on combined blog for three total. So, two pages as are, one combined page without the frills, just the entries, some brief explanatory crap, simple--even better, with links to separate blogs. Yeah. that rules. I worked it out right here right now while writing about it, as I desparately and very naively hope to do with a crack smoking habit. heh Who am I kididng? We'll see.

The combined multiblog will have combination/organization/presentation options and design elements to differentiate origins and types of posts, etc. very cool to be able to see togther as well as separate.

Okay, just have to do it and stop talking about it. Thing is, I'd love to just do it 24/7 until done or satisfied or burnt out, but with work full-time, it makes me just want to hire somebody to do it for me--but only because my energy and time are so disproportionate to the task, because ideally I do it all and love it, pour self into it. heart and soul and other cheese. feels like it will take forever to get migrated, designed, configured, imported, set-up, plug-insgoing, all features in place and functional, and all content in--man, that's huge...