A Few Site Notes During the Pregnant Pause

The entire gay blogosphere (I hate the term too) is waiting see if the Vermont marriage equality bill will be vetoed by the governor and if so, will the veto be overturned by the legislature. Things have gone quiet today. TOO QUIET.

While we wait (it’ll be morning before it comes back to the House), here’s a sneak peek at some things I have planned for the site.

• A new name. Yes, again. Shut up. I hate naming things and I totally suck at it, but this is it. This change will stick for at least a year. This is my pledge.
• Sometime soon, there will be a drastic change in the appearance of this blog. I’m working on adapting a WordPress theme, and if all goes to plan (HAHAHA) it should be ready to go by next Monday. I actually jumped a major hurdle yesterday, and it’s all downhill from here. (I think I just mixed that metaphor. Sorry.)
• The magazine-style index will be going away. The entire text will be available from the index instead of making people click through to read the blog post. A side benefit for me is that I won’t have to find those 85×85 images that are currently on the front. I spend waaayyyy too much time doing that.
• I’m working on improving navigation. Currently it’s okay on the index, but completely lacking in an individual post. I’ve tried to fix that with the current theme, but it’s a no-go. That’ll change with the new look; navigation options in the sidebar will be the same no matter what page you’re on. I’ve already activated a “Popular Posts” feature, and that’ll be staying with a few tweaks that should improve it even more.
• The cool super-sweet drop-down category listing on the front page may be going away. I hope not, but the javascript is fighting with some new javascript and I’m not sure I’ll be able to reconcile them. Hope so, but it might be gone.
• You five or so people who have subscribed to the RSS feed will be able to read the whole thing from your feed readers. At some point the rss address may change, but not yet. If it does, you’ll get a post warning you about it.

And that’s the news! Now to wait for news from Vermont. And New Hampshire. And California. And Iowa. And the Presbyterian Church. And the Methodist Church. And…