The Rambling Webgeek: Playing with the interface to the CYOA features again. I’m hesitantly declaring it perfected, having sacrificed compactness for clarity.

I’m also sitting on a redesign that should look better at higher resolutions (I always forget to test for that), to make sure that I really like it and that it’s not just the caffeine talking. I’d also like to avoid having another design that only lasts a week, just on principle.

None of these old designs are just chucked in the trash, by the way. At some point when I have an actual web host, I’ll get around to letting users pick their own design. In theory, that’s possible now, as one of my supplemental web hosts allows CGI and SSI. In practice, however, I haven’t any more compelling reason to move everything over there at this time. (Mostly because Perl causes me intense cephalalgia, whereas PHP does not.)

The third time is not the charm: it would appear that two things haven’t changed since the last time I played with remotely-hosted comments. A) It doubles the load time of your page, B) understandably, no one feels a compelling need to talk about the things I say. I do however love the way Sylloge does comments, as a sort of on-page guestbook, and I’m thinking that’s the way of the future. It would definitely solve problem A, at least.