I didn’t post about it, but last week I changed the theme for my site and cut a bunch of deadweight junk from the sidebar. I think the website looks a lot better now, though I still want to build a static front page for when people stumble onto it via Google. (However rarely that happens, for now.) I also need to rethink the navigation menus, and how some of the information accessible through them isn’t organized quite how I’d like… but that’s not so much of a priority right now, especially since I’m going to have to spend countless hours at my desk between classes this semester.
The stuff I cut from the sidebar was stuff like links to lists of movies I’ve watched in the past year, books I’m currently reading, and stuff like that. It’s all still accessible from links on the page, I just don’t call it out that much. (For example, I used to link a list of recently watched movies. Now I just have a link to my IMDB lists up in the social media section.)
I’m pretty happy how the site looks now, anyway. Happy enough, given how neglected it is content-wise.
Oh yeah, and I also figured out how to suppress the display of the books by a certain asshole in SF/Fantasy lit whose writing I read just before he was exposed for being a complete scumbag. Happily, all you need to do in Librarything is remove the cover art image and the book doesn’t display in your widgets. I’m not deleting the posts in which I mention the books, of course—this is a record of my reading, after all—but at least I’m not giving him any more free advertising.