“Jacob Levy”:http://jacobtlevy.blogspot.com/2009/07/virtual-housekeeping-ive-done-round-of.html:
bq. I’ve done a round of cleanups on my home page, including links where appropriate to published versions of things that previously had links to SSRN drafts, complete citations, etc. Also tied ’em all up together in a single “recent papers” list, forgoing the annual sublists. … I’m aware that some friends and colleagues have fancy homepages. But it seems to me that the more bells and whistles it has, the harder it is to update regularly– is that so? (Or is it just a matter of having appropriate software?) The pages I know of that are both fancy and constantly updated are more of the promotional-site-for-one’s-public-intellectual-career type than of the research-and-teaching-stuff type. In comments, I encourage readers to identify particularly good examples of academics’ homepages. Who’s setting a high standard?
I’ve been thinking about this meself, as my home page is badly in need of updating, but have been vacillating between doing a fancy looking homepage with Dreamweaver or similar (advantages: can have RSS feeds on the side; disadvantages: given my lack of any artistic talent or familiarity with CSS, is likely to take a lot of time), a basic text-based job with LaTeX and/or Markdown (advantages: quick and easy to do; disadvantages: needs some aesthetic chops to make it look un-blah), or Movable Type (advantages: easy to update; disadvantages: do I really need _more_ bloggy-looking output on my website?). Any opinions on the above? And also – on Jacob’s question – who out there has a _good-looking_ and _useful_ homepage that I or others can borrow tips from?
