2018 Self-Evaluation Part 1 - CSR's Organization
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 12:59 am
As I said over on the 14th Anniversary topic, I'm going to write some short pieces about CSR this month beginning with this one about the site's basic organization. Burning the midnight oil like this risks making mistakes, but let's try it anyway. What do I mean by CSR's organization? I mean the site's basic structure and layout.
Back in 2004 I had to choose how everything would look and how the site would be navigated. At that time, web sites were still fairly primitive in design, and probably influenced by the Japanese spanking artist Kubota Taira's site I chose a radio button design, although I color-coded mine for easier identification. Nobody does that any more, and I did later add some navigational aides at the top and bottom of most pages, but I kept true to my ideal of simple HTML code that would allow my pages to quickly load. Of course I'm no artist and my graphics design skills are extremely limited, so CSR's pages are more functional than pretty to look at but we've managed since those pages feature lots of visual spanking material that would render a more striking design rather superfluous anyway.
At this point, we're pretty much stuck with the design of most of the pages since renovating all of them would be an enormous task. The Home Page and the various gallery index pages could be remodeled, but I'd have to come up with a new design and I don't really have the time to undertake such a purely cosmetic project at this time. There are two exceptions: the video pages are going to have to be changed for technical reasons, which I'll take up another time, and one of the galleries is less unified than the others.
If you take the time to go through those various gallery index pages - Comics 1, Comics 2, Humor, etc. - you'll probably agree with me that they all make good organizational sense except one: the Picture Gallery. I really can't remember what I was thinking about when I created and named it, but whereas the other galleries all deal with specific types of visual spanking material, the Picture Gallery has always been a hodge-podge of items that just didn't fit anywhere else. For that reason, I intend to split it up, perhaps into these spanking categories:
Newspaper
Stage, Movies & Television
Art (excluding humor cartoons, which would remain in the "Humor" section)
Photographs (not from newspapers or magazines and not of an overtly humorous character)
If anyone has any suggestions about these or additional categories you think we could use, I'd love to hear them. I don't know when the renovation can begin; I've no time for it while the current Comic Strip Series is running but on the other hand we need to do something before trying to get to all of Phil S.'s newspaper stuff. Probably the change will be done very gradually with the old Picture Gallery remaining in place, perhaps with individual items being moved one by one, until all the new galleries have been completed.
Back in 2004 I had to choose how everything would look and how the site would be navigated. At that time, web sites were still fairly primitive in design, and probably influenced by the Japanese spanking artist Kubota Taira's site I chose a radio button design, although I color-coded mine for easier identification. Nobody does that any more, and I did later add some navigational aides at the top and bottom of most pages, but I kept true to my ideal of simple HTML code that would allow my pages to quickly load. Of course I'm no artist and my graphics design skills are extremely limited, so CSR's pages are more functional than pretty to look at but we've managed since those pages feature lots of visual spanking material that would render a more striking design rather superfluous anyway.
At this point, we're pretty much stuck with the design of most of the pages since renovating all of them would be an enormous task. The Home Page and the various gallery index pages could be remodeled, but I'd have to come up with a new design and I don't really have the time to undertake such a purely cosmetic project at this time. There are two exceptions: the video pages are going to have to be changed for technical reasons, which I'll take up another time, and one of the galleries is less unified than the others.
If you take the time to go through those various gallery index pages - Comics 1, Comics 2, Humor, etc. - you'll probably agree with me that they all make good organizational sense except one: the Picture Gallery. I really can't remember what I was thinking about when I created and named it, but whereas the other galleries all deal with specific types of visual spanking material, the Picture Gallery has always been a hodge-podge of items that just didn't fit anywhere else. For that reason, I intend to split it up, perhaps into these spanking categories:
Newspaper
Stage, Movies & Television
Art (excluding humor cartoons, which would remain in the "Humor" section)
Photographs (not from newspapers or magazines and not of an overtly humorous character)
If anyone has any suggestions about these or additional categories you think we could use, I'd love to hear them. I don't know when the renovation can begin; I've no time for it while the current Comic Strip Series is running but on the other hand we need to do something before trying to get to all of Phil S.'s newspaper stuff. Probably the change will be done very gradually with the old Picture Gallery remaining in place, perhaps with individual items being moved one by one, until all the new galleries have been completed.