Playbills

I've been working on getting a headstart on the playbills... 

it's kind of a boring task to scan them (without destroying the original), reformat the pages, crop the scans and resize the pages to fit the standard size I set for the website.

Ski Dubai

While not perfect, I think the scans are fairly readable, making higher resolution scans would probably make them better, but then the files would be so big, loading the page might take too long... So, sorry I decided to compromise, the small print had to suffer the consequences.

I've added 5 new playbills today: Blackbird, August Osage County, Ski Dubai, I Sailed with Magellan and Graceland.

I Sailed with Magellan

These plays all hold great memories - which made the task more pleasant but also slow because I couldn't help but stop and read every now and then. Some of these plays are already added as an individual play-page to the accompanying website (at theatermusings.com), the others will follow soon.

All of these will get their own blog entry with my own thoughts and impressions of the play.... later...

   




Theatermusings.com

the issues

the things you didn't know you wanted until you find out it's hard to implement... then suddenly you NEED to have them!

So my website building experiment has run into some issues... one of course that the project is growing way to big, so much work to be done while my mind is stuck on tinkering with the blue print pages.

apart from that apparently I am expecting too much... I want to incorporate this blog into the website, that looks like a fairly simple thing to accomplish, next I want to have a blog tag cloud that is relevant to the specific site pages to appear on those pages... so for instance on the Blackbird Page there should be a little tag cloud containing "Blackbird, Victory Gardens, David Harrower, William Petersen, Mattie Hawkinson, Dennis Zacek etc" with those tags taking you directly to the Blog tag cloud so you can cross reference easily... I have yet to find a way to make such a little specific tag cloud appear on the regular site pages. Working on a few ideas but I'm not sure my mind or imagination is as logical as the world of bits and bytes to put it mildly.

Next up to tackle the challenge of adding playbills to the play-pages... without making visitors wait too long for the site to load.

the start of things

I've been working on setting up a website to chronicle my Theatre experiences, plays I've seen, reviews, info on favorite artists and such... it's been an interesting experience to say the least, so many possibilities to dress up a website, too many as it turns out since the whole thing was turning into a carnival of special effects! I'm tuning things down again, still looking for a good way to publish a copy of the Playbills and have not found the ultimate (for me) Picture Gallery but I will soldier on regardless. I have started off by creating one play page and one artist page, they are supposed to be a blueprint for all future pages. If you have any comments, no matter if it is style, color scheme, content, missing stuff or too much, please let me know! this is my first real attempt at building a site, I will walk happily into all the traps that are cliche for novices I'm sure.

Blue print play page is the magnificent play Blackbird, not a very happy play, dark drama if you will, but for me still a love story of sorts. One of my all time favorite plays, hence it's selection to be the blue print play page. Blue print artist page is the multi-talented Hugh Laurie, simply because he is an inspiration.

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