Drastic web page redesign soon
January 8, 2002 (6:51 AM) ( link )

No reading yet, but I have been working on a way to revamp this web site, making the updating of reviews and the generation of index files completely automatic from my end. I should be done with all the nitty-gritty stuff by the end of the month, and I'll probably be tweaking with web-site design for a long, long time to come. Fortunately, tweaking with design will also be easy: right now, I've got a web-page generator that allows me to take a collection of text-file reviews and then convert them, via the magic of gawk, into a uniform collection of web pages. If I want to change the background from all of them, a simple switch in one template, and I'm done. While I'm sure the programming is a total mess, computers are fast enough nowadays to hide the sheer inefficiency of my code. Anyway, programming is as much fun as I remembered it being; somewhere buried inside my liberal arts shell lurks a dormant (and sometimes not-so-dormant) computer geek.