Changing Website Themes

I'm really getting annoyed with all the stuff I can't control with the template I bought, and there's this irritating habit of new page elements like menus and buttons not loading correctly.

So, I've been looking around at other Wordpress website theme makers. I've found one that's really awesome. It covers just about every form of customization. Regular Page layouts, too, such as a "story" layout, i.e., full page widths. That's better for writing out episode summaries. Right now, I have to design my own and that's ticking me off.

The new theme, called Deja Vu by mysitemyway.com, can be customized for darker colors, though I believe I'll keep with a light background, dark text. Anyway, it's really nice and $8 more than I paid for the one I currently have. Typical. But if I want the perks in a theme that let's me customize almost everything, I'm gonna have to pay a little more.

*sigh* Anyway, feedback on the new design, if you're so inclined to look, would be great.

Writing Episode Summaries

This post concerns Stargate SG-1, but it can refer to any fandom.

I plan to put episode summaries back up on my website. I'd taken them down two or three designs ago, and so I thought I'd saved them. But, I didn't. And now, I have to decide on the drudgery -- it's how it feels -- on writing out the entire episodes or just one or two paragraph summaries.

Now the drudgery part is due to making the decision to write out *all* of the episodes. And frankly, that will be extremely difficult for some episodes I'd rather forget ever existed.

Which brings me to the second quandry, and that's whether to insert personal opinion in the write-ups, or leave them unbiased. Frankly, I'm kinda leaning toward the former, not the latter. I can write up an unbiased summary and then put in my two cents after. I can completely ignore my slashy bias, but my love for the team is not so easily ignored.

Maybe I've already decided and I'm writing out pros and cons, and I ended up with one con: Full episode descriptions are too lengthy for those looking for a synopsis, not a novelette. Alternate: Synopses are too short for those wishing to read details.

Solution: Write out summaries (including my own opinions at the end), and add a link to transcripts for those who want longer reading. Thanks to slamaina, I have pdfs of the episodes (dialogue continuity transcripts) and can share thanks to extensive storage space on my hosting site. :)

So... now on to the exhaustive task of writing 214 episodes. Oy.