in answer to jonny's comment, the old stuff is all still there, so any direct links are not broken. there's just no way from the new front end [small ritual 6] to the stripy-menu stuff [small ritual 5] yet.
in fact the sr5 site started out looking and working very much like the new sr6 version. but the main menu using words was too long to do horizontally, so it had to become vertical. then i had a neat stripy submenu system so you could see all the site content at once. but that didn't work, because a submenu with 24 entries runs off the bottom of the browser window and you can't scroll to get it. so the submenus had to become the section menu pages. but that makes for clumsy navigation in each section, hence the previous/next buttons. etc etc. in short there's just too damn much content, and the old stuff swamps the new.
and i'd realised that my original categories from the old orange-menu site sr4 were too fixed, hence the section 3/4/5 etc structure and the code-only menus, so i could move stuff around and retitle it easily if i thought it was in the wrong place. that doesn't help if you want stable links, but i want a movable thinking space.
i guess i need to find a way of tying sr5 and sr6 together. in effect one is image-based and the other text-based. one is a current working space and the other is archival. maybe those distinctions will sharpen.
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