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That is a nice site. All the reviews are from you? You are using a custom tool for the static page generation? Small thing: on the main page, you have a-links
by onli 12y ago
That is a nice site. All the reviews are from you? You are using a custom tool for the static page generation?
Small thing: on the main page, you have a-links into buttons, for the audio-book, e-book and normal one. That doesn't work for me, a click just presses the button (newest FF under Ubuntu).
Do you want hints for the design?
- DanielBMarkham 12y agoSure! Email them on. The site is almost 4 years old, and it's starting to show its age. I would do much differently were I to start over. Yes, currently the reviews are from me. I let the site slide for a long time because I only wanted books that would still be good ten years from now, and you don't see a lot of those released each year. Interesting problem I ran into with the site? Gushing reviews. Turns out if you only review the best stuff, you quickly run out of superlatives. That was the main reason I didn't finish reviewing all the entries. The challenge I took when building the site was to do as much as possible without a transactional database or realtime back-end system. The site compiles from an MS Access database to JSON, which is then stored on the server. I found with a semi-static database and rich querystring, I could do a lot more than most people would imagine. It made me start deeply thinking about app architecture -- completely changed the way I look at it. But the UX? Not so much.
- onli 12y agoI sent you an email