The Lexicographer's Rules

Over the weekend I moved the site to a new service provider, one offering incredible high-speed hosting for database-driven web sites (and for less than a third of what I was paying elsewhere for dismal speeds).

EngineHosting has smartly shown that they understand that static web sites will soon be, if they are not already, outnumbered by database-driven web sites. So they’ve paid a lot of attention to making sure that the MySQL servers are top-notch.

As a result, I’ve been able to restore the full-blown search functions which are so very necessary for a site like this one. It makes finding things less painful

Over the next few months, I’ll be making substantial changes to the look and operation of the site, and hope to offer features like:

—rating of entries
—automatic look-ups in dictionaries at other sites
—customized searches across a wide spectrum of freely available online glossaries, lexicons, and dictionaries
—new categories of words being recorded
—RSS feeds for categories and subjects
—integration of unresearched citations and fully-researched entries
—a focus on visitor comments and community

I welcome your comments and suggestions. I do track what visitors do on the site and how they do it, but I’d appreciate your specific, detailed comments about what you’d expect to see here. Leave your suggestions here in the comments or drop me a line at editor@doubletongued.org.

Well, first you have an unclosed anchor tag in your post. :)

Second, I’ve only just remembered despite reminding myself numerous times after listening to the show to drop by your site so I don’t know what things used to be like. Have you always been using ExpressionEngine or only since you moved to EngineHosting?

As for what I expect or would like, I think one must temper ability with a dash of taste. Just because you _can_ do a thing does not mean you _should_ do a thing. But, if you wanted to make me happy about commenting then get the Textile plugin so my underscores become italics.

Thanks for the note about the anchor tag, Chris. I’m afraid my browsers automatically close it, so it wsn’t obvious.

I probably will not be installing the Textile plugin, though.