... which (used to be) attached to this board.
Back in 1998, when I bought the domain name badastronomy.com, I decided to redesign the site to celebrate. Plus, I had completely outgrown the old format. A friend of mine did the redesign, and she did great job (that whole story can be found
here).
But I outgrew that design as well. I added a third column to accommodate sub-menus and of course the ads, and then I decided to add a section about media, and then and then and then.
Well, the site now looks, not to put too fine a point on it, ugly. It was great six years ago, but now I've really trashed it. It's time for a redesign. Also, I will probably soon bite the bullet and go to a dedicated server (Fraser from
Universe Today, and a BABBer, recommended I do it, too, and he's pretty smart).
Why post about it? Well, my original friend who did the redesign is waaaaayyyy too busy now to do it. I have another friend (yes! really!) who might do the redesign, and she told me I should ask readers what they want.
So. What do you want?
Feel free to suggest. I am open to almost anything within reason. But some caveats--
1) I want to do everything using cascading style sheets. I use HTML tables now, and I
hate them.
2) I would like to go to a width of 750 or so pixels.
3) The ads are staying. Sorry, folks, but at $100/month for hosting, that's a firm statement.
4) I'd like to integrate the blog and BABB better, but I'm not sure how this will work. It depends on the next version of phpBB, but it's something I'm keeping an eye on.
5) It
must be expandable, in that I want to be able to add a new section or something eventually.
I make no promises that I will take any advice given here, but I do know that we have some clever people on this board, so I'm curious to know what you think. I make no offers of reward, either, except the glowy warm feeling knowing that in a very small way, you helped staunch the tide of pseudoscience by making my site prettier. :P