Zolnerzone site History
ZONE memo of 3/4/06
Tristan, I've been thinking a lot since our "flux" talk on the phone yesterday, and I think the site is due for a MAJOR revision.
1. Most important, each "page" of the current site is LARGER than one screen, making it necessary to scroll down to see the whole page-content, which we both agree is NOT what we want. As I said before, I very much like the "look" of the galaxy and the "enter" to the Zone, but the text belongs more to the "history" of the Zone.
Page 1 should have ONLY the graphic and the "enter" button, with only ONE text line below, maybe "Click on Enter, above, to start your adventures in ZolnerZone."
Page 2 should have a smaller graphic and, again, one line: "ZolnerZone is the Zone of the life of Bob Zolnerzak," then three lines with three buttons:
1) For information about Bob Zolnerzak, enter the Zone here.
BUTTON-1 (maybe Zolnerzak)
2) For information about Zones, enter the Zone here.
BUTTON-2 (maybe ZONES)
3) To continue your adventures in ZolnerZone, enter here.
BUTTON-3 (maybe ZolnerZone)
Page 3 from BUTTON-1 (again, one screen):
1) A small ZolnerZone graphic.
2) A one-paragraph bio that introduces me and my writings and travels and thoughts that led to the ZolnerZone contents.
3) A return-button to "previous page" (to Page 2).
4) A biography-button to "continue biography" (to Page 11).
5) A continue-button to "continue your adventures" (to Page 5).
Page 4 from BUTTON-2 (again, one screen):
1) Same graphic.
2) Essentially the text now on the current first page.
3) HISTORY button (to page 6).
4) CONTINUE button (to page 5).
Page 5 from BUTTON-3 (again, one screen):
1) Same graphic.
2) Text: "This is the central menu of ZolnerZone. From here you can
go deeper into ZolnerZone in three different dimensions:"
3) REALITY button (to Page 8) with text: "What really happened"
4) IMAGINARY button (to Page 9) with text: "Flights of fancy"
5) DREAMS button (to Page 10) with text: "Dreams"
6) VISUALS button (to Page 16) with text: "Photos, videos, and more"
Page 6 from HISTORY button:
1) This memo, sadly larger than one screen, but that's OK.
2) RETURN button (to Page 5) with text: "Return to central menu"
3) CONTINUE button (to Page 7) with text: "Continue with history"
Page 7, for now, has text: "More history"
Page 8 from REALITY button:
1) Same graphic.
2) Text: "We enter the REALITY zone of ZolnerZone:"
3) BIOGRAPHY button (to Page 3) with text: "Biography of Bob
Zolnerzak"
4) JOURNALS button (to Page 12) with text: "Journals by year"
5) TRAVELS button (to Page 13) with text: "Travels by continent"
Page 9 from IMAGINATION button:
1) Same graphic.
2) Text: "We enter the IMAGINATION zone of ZolnerZone:"
3) FICTION button (to Page 14) with text: "Fiction"
4) PLAYS button
5) POETRY button
6) HUMOR button
Page 10 from DREAMS button: Dreams
Page 11 from biography-button on Page 3:
1) Text: "More bio"
2) Button to Short-Fiction Bio page
3) Button to "Yet more bio"
Page 12 from JOURNALS button:
1) Text: "Journals by year"
2) Button to "Notebook"
Page 13 from TRAVELS button:
1) Text: "Travels by continent"
2) Buttons for continents
Page 14 from FICTION button:
1) Text: "Fiction"
2) Short-Fiction button (to Page 15) with text: "Short Fiction"
3) Long-Fiction button
4) "Gain" button
5) "Acid House" button
6) "John" button
Page 15 from Short-Fiction button: [Tris: You're working on this NOW.]
1) Text: "Short Fiction: Sub-genres will change as more and more
material is added from other genres of my writings."
2) "Adolescent work" button with text: "Earliest readings included Poe
and Bierce. Radio provided "Inner Sanctum" and "Suspense,"
obvious generators of some of this."
3) "Biographical" button with text: "Some straight autobiography, some
heavily fantasized, some are accounts from friends that I found
compelling enough to write out."
["Essays" will be elsewhere.]
4) "Gay" button with text: "Since I knew I was gay (without knowing
the word itself) since I was 5 years old, some stories other than
these may contain "hidden" references to gayness."
5) "Humor" button with text: "Other pieces may contain inadvertent
humor, but these were intended to be funny."
6) "Ideas" button with text: "Many half-baked; some character
sketches, some plot-lines, some merely ideas."
["Lists" will be elsewhere.]
["Poetry" will be elsewhere, with text: "A friend, Elaine Restifo,
published a small-distribution vanity periodical called "The
River" which accepted, with my gratitude, some of my first-
published literary work."]
7) "Science-Fiction" button with text: "High-school readings included
Bradbury (for a fantasy element) and Heinlein (for harder
science). Verne and Clarke followed somewhat later."
["Travel" will be elsewhere.]
Gotta stop now: I'm starving for breakfast!