The dev blog for Justin Duewel-Zahniser's Chapbook poetry sharing web app project. I'm going to post random stuff here that's too big for the dev list and hopefully get conversations going with testers/users.

Re-Design Progresses Reasonably

I’m happier with the layout.  I’m only wondering now if I shouldn’t use a brigher shade of blue.  I don’t know if I so much need more color as I just need the page to be less drab.

The new size of the poem text is much better.  I also ditched my custom comment code for Disqus integration.  My own comment code wasn’t bad, but there’s more value in me spending time on poetry-related things.  Disqus provides threading, reputation, email subscriptions and more that I don’t have to rebuild in yet another way.

The big outstanding items are:

  • Search (waiting on Heroku)
  • RSS
  • Chapbook upgrades - this has the least love because it’s the newest model
I’m also now debating Clickpass integration to support OpenID.  I can’t see a downside to supporting OpenID, although I don’t think it lets me shift my account code elsewhere, since I still need to maintain a local copy of the profile and keep passwords, etc. 
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