Interactive text tool, please test.

[grammata]

Here's an interface for browsing and searching Shakespeare's plays. I wanted to design a graphical index for visualizing the plays and getting an overview of search results.

I'm trying to keep the design simple, with a focus on the content. Still, I'd appreciate some ideas on how to spice things up a bit. The search function is a bit of a kludge, if you want to hammer on it a bit, I'll be grateful for any bugs you can turn up.

Shakespeare explorer (http://maps.grammata.com/shakespeare)

Thanks, testers!

[Pasquale]

ahahaha. Awesome.

I wish something like this was around for highschool english..

[duncanhall]

That's awesome, very good work! I coudln't find a single bug (and believe me, I tried). Only preference would be to make use of the scrollwheel as there is some vertical scrolling, but other than that, very good. Seems like there's a lot of people who might find this useful.

[grammata]

Good suggestion about linking up the scroll wheel. Hate dragging scrollbars, myself.

Hope the Shakespeare doesn't conjure up too many bad associations from school :). I'd like to try combining interactive visualization to other kinds of content, something more relevant to most people's lives (the news? sports results? stock performance? youtube videos? myspace pages?) Using a graphical index gives you immediate access to a lot more content than the paged results that you get from Google and the like. Any thoughts along those lines?

[duncanhall]

Music would be a good one I reckon, because everyone likes music. Not sure exactly what you could be indexing though. A flat catalogue of artists and songs might be a little dull. I might see if I can come up with something intriguing as I like your ideas.

Other than that, anything that has an API would make things a lot easier (eg Google, flickr, facebook, yahoo maps). The success of whatever it is that you make is partly going to be down to how much information it has indexed. And this will be vastly more if you can be getting your data from an external source such as one of those APIs.

[hybrid101]

holy crap i love that:D
bookmarked:P