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seeking feedback on a web writing gallery
15 years ago
Been fairly busy just coping and working on schoolwork, and I am going to ask for some feedback for a class I'm working on, if anyone would care to spare the time.
I need to design and build a simple web site for my Web Development class and I am going to be building a showcase of writing and related work. It's a class for a Library Science degree and an opportunity to organize my writing in one fell swoop, double win :)
Anyway, what i wanted feedback on is that I've seen MANY artist sites for individual visual artists, but most writing published on Directory sites such as FA, SoFurry, DeviantArt, which have their own issues with organizing so many different authors. Please do not feel like you need to answer every question, but I do have a few design questions I wanted to ask people who routinely read on the web:
How would you prefer to see it organized?
Table of Contents of present stories with historical fragments mixed throughout?
Fictional Chronography as if paging through the Librarian's collection - Prehistory, Recent history, Present?
In order of writing? (like paging through the gallery here :)
Are there any things about formatting or design that would make something admittedly text heavy easier for you to read?
Any particular problems to avoid?
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
I need to design and build a simple web site for my Web Development class and I am going to be building a showcase of writing and related work. It's a class for a Library Science degree and an opportunity to organize my writing in one fell swoop, double win :)
Anyway, what i wanted feedback on is that I've seen MANY artist sites for individual visual artists, but most writing published on Directory sites such as FA, SoFurry, DeviantArt, which have their own issues with organizing so many different authors. Please do not feel like you need to answer every question, but I do have a few design questions I wanted to ask people who routinely read on the web:
How would you prefer to see it organized?
Table of Contents of present stories with historical fragments mixed throughout?
Fictional Chronography as if paging through the Librarian's collection - Prehistory, Recent history, Present?
In order of writing? (like paging through the gallery here :)
Are there any things about formatting or design that would make something admittedly text heavy easier for you to read?
Any particular problems to avoid?
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Having an order different from the order they were uploaded never occurred to me, but that might be an interesting thing to be able to change. It would also be nice if you could have more than one "featured work" but much like the "scraps" section, different people might place the bar for what should be showcased at different levels.
I haven't made an account on Inkbunny yet but I really love how they break written material into pages...literally, like they would be in a book. You have to go see it to appreciate it.
Having a paw in the nuts and bolts of arranging the pages makes it possible, though perhaps more of a headache, to link work differently. I do know folk here that will use a journal entry to create a sort of link index of their works, especially a writer like me that writes things with the same world and characters ENTIRELY out of chronological order :p It also makes it possible to have more levels of "scrap", from sharing notes and outlines, to actual fragments and drafts, on to more or less finished works. I suspect the working definition of "scrap" here is just "Stuff that i don't want to be the first impression when they click [gallery]"
I must poke around Inkbunny more. That actually speaks to a discussion i was having with a couple of the other students about pros and cons of scrolling verses paging. I mean there ARE still a few actual readers using the internet, but i want to make it as easy on them as possible. :)