The ASCII style of the site is novel, although not very functional. Google is not correctly indexing the site - the googlebot does not understand that there are columns of text, and treats the menus as part of the paragraph. Furthermore, search results from VisualCore.com are showing up at the bottom of the list. Another and perhaps bigger problem, is that copying text off the site is painful. If it is multiple lines, you always get chunks of the menu mixed in with the code (or other content) you are trying to copy.
So I have been working on a new graphical style, hopefully the initial release will be by Sunday (tomorrow). The layout work is done, I just need to flesh out the page content. I am also adding the ability to post comments to everything, which will be nice.
After the initial release, I plan to employ a few of the various open source JavaScript libraries, to see how they perform and to get some experience with them. For now, I plan on using Prototype (of course), Scriptaculous, Moo.Fx, LightBox, and maybe ASP.NET AJAX - although, it is a little bulky, so I'm not sure about that yet.
Posted in Design on January 26th
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