Future plans...

I thought I'd take the time to explain in further detail what, at this point, I have planned for my website sometime in the (hopefully) not so distant future:

1, 2). First off I am currently working on an intro page. This page will take the place of the homepage you now first see when you enter DavidSanctuary.com. The intro page will be used as a portal to the existing davidsanctuary.com as well as a way to navigate to three (at this point in time) additional sub-sites each dedicated to a particular interest of mine. As of right now I have planned to make sites relating to music, books, and outdoor activities (hiking, camping, rock climbing, boating, etc.). Depending on how well that works out, farther in the future I may add more sub-sites possibly with something like cooking. In essence I would like DavidSanctuary.com to become a decent representation of my interests and what I am involved in. You could say that it will be my 24/7 Christmas letter.

After I do some more research and learn how to do some basic Flash work, I will incorporate that into my intro page so that it looks more modern and has some movement. I am currently working on this intro page and hope to have a prototype up shortly.

Once I have at least one of the additional sub-sites up and running (with the proper hosting) the current DavidSanctuary.com will become movies.DavidSanctuary.com, with the other branches following suit (i.e. music.DavidSanctuary.com, books.DavidSanctuary.com, etc.).

3). On the current site I have plans to add a page for foreign movies. Most of the content on this page will be Italian movies, as I have not seen many films from other foreign countries. In format this one page will include similar content as most of the other pages, but in abbreviated form.

4). I would like to include a page for my little brother Levi's foray into filmdom. I'm not entirely sure on the format yet, but it will probably include one or two of his short films, as well as some personal words from Levi. Maybe I'll be able to get him to keep us all informed about what he is working on or has planned. You can see some samples of what he has done here!

5.) Last is the three pages I've been working on for a couple of years now: My Top 5 Actors, Actresses, and Directors. All three of these pages have been started with the Directors page nearly finished. I was very close to unveiling these a couple of years ago, but during a reinstall of Windows on my desktop they mistakenly did not get saved. Therefore, I lost all I had worked on and had to start over from scratch. Unfortunately, since then my free time has been incredibly scarce and I have not been able to finish them all. I would like to get them all up at the same time, since they are in a way connected to one another. However, maybe I will work on them one at a time and put them into service when I finish each individual one.

As you can see I have a lot in the works, whether in production or merely in mind. Since I only have three and a half terms left of school I hope to have a lot more time to get all of this done once school is over. I'll state right now that I'd like to have all of this done by September, 2009. There, I set a deadline; now I'm going to have to work to keep it, so I don't disappoint.

Remember, if you have any suggestions about anything I've written here or something I omitted, leave me a comment. Also, if anyone wants to volunteer their web design skills to help me out (especially in regards to using Flash) that would be fantastic.

~David