Poll: Form and Function

[thefourthvine]

So, I've finished tagging all my entries. Notice my index posts that allow all of you, including anonymous users, access to all my tags.

Notice that they look fucking awful. And the print is tiny, so I'm not even sure anyone will use them. Plus, I seriously do not want these to be the top entries in my journal for however long it takes LJ to put a "Tags" link on the info page; looking at them depresses me, and I'm probably the only person who actually looks at my journal regularly outside of a friends list.

But, on the other hand, I did tag all those posts. I have no idea what the point was if I can't find a way to let everyone use them to search by fandom and theme. So this poll is asking, basically, for you to identify the lesser of the evils, because they all look fairly evil to me at this point.

And while you're here, could you weigh in on other appearance aspects of this journal? I mean, if I'm going to pitch a major wobbler over the hideousness of my index posts, surely I could also spare some time to worry about the fact that my journal is, well, pretty darned hideous? And that it may also make other people's friends lists hideous?

I mean, OK, I'm going to spare that time anyway, so I guess what I really want is for you to spare enough time to form an opinion. I would greatly appreciate it.

But mostly, please god someone tell me what to do about this whole tags issue, because - the horror. The horror. My dogs are averting their eyes from the screen, here. Dust mites are scoffing at my primitive grasp of website design. It's all very very bad and wrong. Help meeeeeee.

[Poll #518389]

Comments

[dzurlady.livejournal.com]

Obey me. I have a brilliant solution to this problem, which I will relate to you in the comments so that you may worship me as I deserve.
Well, I don't know about brilliant, but if you don't want the tags entries at the top of your post you could combine them all in one post/put together links to all your tags entries in one post, and then just put a link to that post as your personal website (labelled as something like 'Search recs by tags' or something). It would therefore always show on your journal front page and wouldn't clutter up the top of your journal, if it's bugging you. I don't really mind it, but I don't look at your journal as much as you must.
(Don't know if you know how to do this - if you don't:
To put a link in your journal as your personal website, go here (http://www.livejournal.com/editinfo.bml) and enter the post url where it says 'webpage url' and then whatever you want to call it where it says 'webpage name'. It will then automatically show up in your journal.)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Actually, that is a very interesting idea. Because my original plan was to put the whole massive tag-link-fest on the info page, as that's where I go when I want to search someone's LJ. But I know I'm in the minority on that, and it turned out that it would've made my info page the same length as The Complete Works of Tolstoy, so I gave up.

And now I have a sidebar. Which I can't easily link to. But...if I took the index posts off the private setting, moved them way back in time, and put a link to them on the info page, as you suggested - well, that could work rather well.

Must reflect on this further. After I finish making my LJ suitable for human habitation, that is.

Thank you!