We endeavored this morning to render an ordered list of desired changes to this weblog as part of our ongoing redesign-cum-restructuring, and could find no compelling reason (other than the absolute vanity involved, of course) to not make such a list public. We'll update this list as it (inevitably) grows. The list:
abbr and acronym religiously. We should be exploiting these elements to create a posts-by-abbreviations feature similar to Mark Pilgrim's posts-by-citation. We'd rather include this information within archive pages, instead of on a separate page, as Mark has done.We're happy to be the ten-billionth person to cite Dunstan Orchard's blog as a wonderful source of inspiration. Dunstan's doing more to make his blog beautiful and usable than nearly anybody else we read regularly. To wit: the best, most friendly weblog error-handling we've ever seen; extremely useful "blogged people" and "blogged domains" features (more info); an elegant, innovative tabbed menu interface; a complete and intuitive archiving scheme; and most distinctively, a dynamically-generated, ninety-image header panorama, which, as Dunstan describes, "depict[s] the same scene under a different weather condition, time of day, and (at night) phase of the moon" according to current conditions. Dunstan's raised the bar.
There's probably more to come. Let us know what we should be doing better.