Category: Admin

The Atlantic Monthly has a good poetry page that you can access here. It has some new poems and articles as well as a searchable archive. We should compile a list of useful poetry links… I’ll keep posting ones as I find them..

A few thoughts on making this blog a little prettier. I like the general format to begin with, so most of this is just detail:
*Title Font color should match the font color in the banner (the “Mind of Winter” color)
*If its possible to highlight the titles of posts it might break up the post and clearly delineate when a post begins
*The name of the poster looks more naturally to me at the bottom of the post
*I always feel better when the links bar is on the left. Also, it should start below the “Mind of Winter” banner, so that the color goes all the way across the screen.

Something that is unnecessary but would be cool:
*A feature that would be really awesome would be to have a link to one single window (that pops up separately) that contains all the poems we’ve done (instead of making them posts). I’d be glad to compile this file. Anyway, I find that as I’m posting it would be nice to have a small window open somewhere that has the actual poem.

All in all this is a great format. I hope that it is well used…

I just installed this ‘Content Management System’ on Sunday, so I haven’t really had time to work out all (any) of the bugs, quirks, annoyances or other features that might be less than desirable. Any suggestions are welcome. If you don’t like the interface, we have options.

Also, I know it looks pretty ugly right now. I was trying to find colors I liked—not necessarily together—and I didn’t switch anything back to normal. I am not a designer and I am artistically impoverished, but I can code well enough, so if you have layout/design ideas, let me know.

Finally, I know the site breaks in Netscape 4 (but it breaks gracefully!). Netscape 4 sucks. N4 doesn’t handle CSS styling very well, so I just hid the stylesheet from N4 altogether (actually, I used a perfectly valid method for declaring a stylesheet, but N4 got that wrong, too). If you’re stuck using an old version of Netscape, I’ll try to come up with something more palatable when I get a chance, but I don’t know how soon that might be.