Monday, July 28, 2014

And boom! Your eyes do not deceive you - this is a third review in the same month. We should all celebrate. I know I certainly am.


Okay, it was a little bit of a cheat - it was a board game and apparently those are quick reviews. But since I see all of you voted for a book next in a giant landslide, we'll be able to go right back to spending weeks crying into our drinks and wondering what we did to deserve all this.

On to the next round of votes - on, I say!

What kind of Phantom material should Anne review next?
  

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

It's time! A new review to go on the fancy new Comics page! It's weird. Be prepared for weirdness.


The voting tied this time, so I have to choose between a book or a game next. I'm autocratically electing a game, because this board game has been burning a hole in my living room game shelf for a while, but it should go considerably more quickly than a book, and I'll be back for the next round in no time!

Let's hit that voting booth again!

What kind of Phantom material should Anne review next?
  

Monday, July 21, 2014

I realized this month that the Phantom Project's website hasn't been updated, cleaned up, or really in any way made less embarrassing since I started it. Which was seven years ago. How time flies when I'm being lazy. So therefore you'll see some cleaning up and streamlining going on this week, which will hopefully help keep me more organized and make life easier for all of you that like to visit and don't appreciate being lost in a forest of poorly marked lists.

At the moment, I've updated the following:

  • The Progress Page now separates materials by type and provides better information about their publishing and authoriship. For those of you who have been using it as a list of possible materials for years and struggling through the messy giant list format, hopefully it'll be a little easier on the eyes and the navigating fingers now.
  • Comics now have their own separate page instead of being lost in the flood of other printed works. They deserved it; they're really an art form of their own.
  • Book reviews now have subheadings to separate out childrens' books, fiction and nonfiction, again to help break up these big ugly lists of things.
  • Similarly, film reviews are now separated by feature films and adult films, so it's no longer a surprise when you're clicking along and suddenly porn happens.
  • The iframe situation for the blog is less ugly now, and there are no more terrible nested scrollbars.

That's all for now, but I'm planning to also brush up the FAQ and possibly see what I can do about making the whole place look a little more pleasing to the eye and a little less like what it is, which is someplace I occasionally copy and paste a lot of words and then ignore for weeks at a time. If you have any requests for things you'd like to see or suggestions that would make getting around on the site easier for you, I'm all ears; I can't promise I'll have the skills to pull them off and it's always possible I'll hate your ideas, but most likely I'll be willing to give it a shot in the name of internet harmony.

Back to reviewing for me!

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

It's here! The review that launched a thousand ships!


Now that that's finally on the site, I feel like having a milestone party and celebrating with something fun next. And as luck would have it, comics won the last round of votes, so fun times it is! Below it's time for a new vote, and for this round I'm going to just collapse ebooks and books together - they're basically the same and y'all don't care if I'm reading them on a Kindle or in my hands, after all.

What kind of Phantom material should Anne review next?
  

On to Comicstown!