I'd like to see the fora constantly on the move, like a herd of sheep (or cats, or worms, or shrews). Your mouse pointer would take the form of a shepherd's crook. As you approached the sections (which initially would be clustered together, like a, um, herd), they would break up and run away from your pointer in different directions. Every time you catch and click on a section, it increases its speed and wiggliness by a notch on future chases, making it trickier to catch. For added trickiness, you could remove the fora headings and make them only identifiable by the tracks they leave, or the manner in which they run away (zig-zag, wiggle, limp etc)
Better yet, replace the pointer with a sheep-dog avatar thingy, which you use to herd your desired subjects in to a penn, and which you control by whistling commands into a microphone plugged into the back of your PC. Obviously everyone would have to wear a flat cap, otherwise it wouldn't work. Do you think you could knock something like that up, Tom?
Re: "expecting a left/right switch"
Weird... I don't get that, but I do expect the sections to be in reverse order within the fora, eg Music should now be at the top of the Spectacle, and Art & Design should be at the bottom.
Anyhow, great idea, Tom, I like it. |
(Like the new layout though -having Creation at the top is good. As is not having to scroll down to Books) 