What do you use to generate your archives?
I use Autofox, an AutoKeen replacement made by Nicholas "Tegeran" Knight and myself. It's really cool, if not a bit of a pain to set up. I guess that's what you get when two sysadmins work on a project like that.
In the future sometime, it'll get upgraded. You can ask for a copy of Autofox, but whether or not you can figure it out is another matter.
Why does the site design suck? Have you even HEARD of CSS? And why is the color scheme for the link text so eye-gratingly bad? Take a design class, doofus!
I'm working on fixing up the site design as I go, yes. The thing is, I tend to prefer minimalism over image-rich pages (easier to maintain, less prone to breakage). We'll see. I'll first work on the Beans sections, then Links, then an overhaul of the rest of the site.
What were the Daily Vote Bonus Doodles over in the Beans section, anyway?
See, there was a time when I strived to gain some sort of recognition on the BuzzComix list. Thanks to BuzzComix's ability to put image incentives for voting, I scanned off my college notebook doodles and put them up once in a while as a bonus for people to vote. In theory, this was to occur daily. Hence, Daily Vote Bonus Doodles.
That, however, was a long time ago, and times have since changed. Not only do I tend to have more important things to do, I've also pretty well given up on the votey bits. So unfortunately, there won't be any new vote doodles. I might start putting up random doodles otherwise, though.
But, in the Daily Vote Bonus Doodle Archive, I keep all the old doodles I used to do. Some are interesting, others aren't. Many don't even involve the DoM.
Have you considered putting various interactive toys, gadgets, and widgets for people to play with on the site?
Considered it, yes, but can't think of anything worth doing. Something like a kinda-live chat board thing is right out (unbelievable spamdumps), and past that, I can't think of anything really interesting. Maybe later I'll come up with some downloadable toys. We'll see.
