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IOW, build the whole thing very cleanly by itself first.

Finished cleaning up the code to be valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. Now proudly displaying the logo in the corner. Continuing work on CSS, once I can decide what I want it all to look like.

Then it's on to PHP/MySQL: adding, removing, and updating features, and cleaning up code. Eugh.

Idea: a stream of consciousness web page with connected "twitters" - using ajax to control how much of the entire stream you can see at once.

This section should contain how-to's and examples of stuff I can do (like ajax) to create a portfolio.

Should also update the site to XHTML. Oh, and completely redesign the CSS to look more professional. Seriously.

Thanks to work.

A "universal" edit form based on the fields and tables in the database. Pass in an update type, which is checked against a lookup table in the database to see which table is going to be affected, then use another lookup to get all the field names (and their "friendly names") that will be entered.

It could be really handy to have a single module for administration and updating any given portion of the site, even ones I haven't invented yet.

Let's face it: Q&A websites like the Conversatron have been a dying breed since their inception. To paraphrase myself from several years ago, they require a symbiotic relationship between the site and its audience, one which requires the audience to contribute something first, before they can get a return on their investment.

Even so, sometimes the payoff is way beyond the initial investment. Sure, there are good writers and bad writers, and even the good writers have bad days, but that doesn't mean that the form is to blame. It's the closest thing to improvisational comedy that the web has to offer.

What can we do to improve on this form and give it a chance? Innovate.

What I'd like to see is a forum where the same question can be answered by multiple writers — perhaps even an open forum — and the community can vote up the best responses, while still leaving all of them public. Think of it as a sort of, I don't know, Conversatron Idol. Then maybe we'll see the true diversity of comedy that the Interwebs have to offer.

I like the look of this site, but its backend is really a mess and I want to do something very different with it. I would rather work with something that acts more like a homebrew wiki, with templates for the various types of pages; sort of a cross between a wiki and a CMS.

I also want the content to be managed in MySQL, which I realize would increase the workload on the MySQL server, but really. My site isn't exactly high-traffic.