I was thinking of doing a basic “core-facts” Lovecraft timeline. As a big desktop-based side-scroller timeline for the Web. With three strands running parallel to each other: his life events / dates for writing and publication of the works / relevant general-history dates. Sadly timeline creation software is still as crap as it was in 2007, the last time I went looking for it in a serious way. The software is either geared toward: genealogists (ugly, fiddly, expensive); arcane computer-coding nerds (ugly, fiddly to install, always in beta); or business owners or schoolkids who just want a dozen items on a dinky little timeline (can sometimes be pretty, but can’t handle hundreds of items / side-scrolling / slick zooming in-and-out). Anyone have experience of a good timeline software, for the sort of finished Web history timeline that I’m envisioning? I’m thinking I may have to code it in javascript and HTML, as I did in 2007 🙁
A Lovecraft timeline
02 Thursday May 2013
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I’ve already found http://www.chronozoomproject.org/ but the interface it presents the end-user with is really bad, a classic of non-usability.
There are some other JS tools like this one: http://timeline.verite.co/
Further to my timeline idea, it seems a group in London is on the case…
HTML5 (history) timeline creation web app. Fixed-Price – Est. Budget: $5,500.00. Posted April 8 2013. “We’re a London based group of designers, historians and consultants who want a prototype (history) timeline creation web app…”
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