EXPECTED IMPROVEMENTS

I AM CURRENTLY LEARNING MICROSOFT ACCESS.  I am trying to automate my website.  I hope to tie many areas of my website together so that additions and changes are reflected everywhere effortlessly, while keeping the resulting webpage appearance pretty much the same.  However, I am finding that database design is not easy to wrap my head around.  My low-tech manual HTML website may be neglected in the near future as I grapple with this powerful software.

Here's what I want to add in content:

• Sell stuff on verizon site
• Featured books on intro page, blog style
• More author pages
• Missing content in book categories
• A Reference Category?
• More Book Reviews/Recommendations by Me
• An Objectivist page
• Better personal page with
  • more photos - I have scanner and a digital camera now!
  • more fun links
  • my creative writing
  • other things I collect
• Quotations/Excerpts page
• Sitemap

Here are some changes I hope to make to the functionality of my website:

• Be an affiliate (cha-ching!) of Amazon, B&N, Half.com, Ebay, or Abebooks?
• An end to frames (via shared borders)?

EXTERNAL LINKS: BOOK INFORMATION

Tor

• Tor Author Links
• Tor Author Fan Links
• Tor's FAQ Site (very humorous)

General Resources

• Unicorn Bibliographies
• Fantastic Fiction
• SciFan
• The SF Site
• Global Network of Dreams
• Book Search
• Pseudonames of Authors
• Radcliff Top 100
• Internet Literature
• How to write to Scholastic

Particular Authors

• Jeeves and Wooster
• Nesbit and Eager
• Sci-Fan (Brittain)
• Vivian Vande Velde (Author of A Hidden Magic)

EXTERNAL LINKS: WEB DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION

• HTML Goodies (The best HTML site. I learned code here, and even bought the book.)
• Where I got my flag icons (What a lifesaver... small, free matching flags!  Phew!)
• Hypergurl web page tutorials
• Pagetutor
• Web Design Articles
• Web Design Resources
• Graphics
• Data Creek
• Google Directory Query
• Browser Compatibility

Book Collecting Software (That's cheating.  I'm making my own...)

• Book Collector Software
• More Book Collector Software
• Even More Book Collector Software

EXTERNAL LINKS: JUST FOR FUN

Art

• TERRIFFIC art by Kathleen Eaton, of Illinois
• More to come....

Jokes

• How to shoot self in foot (laughs for computer science geeks)
• Anti-war peace protestors? (After you get the joke, click the link and read the article.)

Fun with Flash

• Mr. Nice (cute shockwave dancing/music)
• Drum Machine (Japanese percussion with odd-but-cool visual)
• Japanese Ping Pong (clean fun!)
• All Your Base Are Belong To Us (duh)
• Industrious Clock (really nifty idea)
• Yes and No (tips on driving - funny!)
• The End of the World (questionable political message, strong language, but funny)
• Red Dot Blue Dot (if only it were still on the web... sniff)

INTERNAL LINKS: MISCELLANEOUS FILES

• Movie page