Now that the new build is live, I'd like to list a few of the features I plan to add in the near to not-so-near future:
- A List O' Links to the side of this main box. Anyone who has talked to me on AIM knows I surf an incredible amount and have a link for absolutely everything. A links sideblog— did I just write sideblog? I suddenly feel unclean— would be a good place to divulge myself of the many websites filling my "Come back to later" bookmarks folder.
- Entry titles and categories. These two features promote a more essay-based weblog rather than the journal-ish one I have kept up to this point. I have been trying to move in that direction for a while but decided to stay with the old day by day format for this build.
- A stats page. Not visitor stats, mind you; stats about this weblog. One of the many benefits of having a database backend is that I can display useless yet interesting facts about how many posts I've made, their average length, how much the length has changed over time (with graphs!), the age of this weblog to the second, the average length of time between posts, etc.
- Searching. I can't count how many times I have needed to search for a particular post among the three-plus years I have kept this weblog. It's a pain that I would very much like to make go away.
- Better picture uploading. Right now I have to upload pictures and write the description blurb all by hand. I'd like to be able to write an entry, upload some pictures and a description through my normal form and have the code take care of the rest.
- Somewhat useful, gee-whiz stuff like RSS feeds, entry interaction mapping (the subject of a future entry), link trackbacks, blah, blah, blah.
With school starting to pick up, who knows when I will find the time to work on any of these things. The kind of time I had this past week will surely become very rare. For now, though, I'm extraordinarily happy with what I have.