Future Plans For The UK National Lottery Pages

• Improving the awful logos at the top of the real and virtual lottery pages (submissions welcome). I don't want to use lottery balls with actual numbers on them in the logos, although questions marks on the balls would be OK. It's why I've avoided using any lottery balls so far in either logo.

• Add a chart that has number frequencies on the X-axis and the number of times a number has appeared with that frequency on the Y-axis. This could be overlaid with a normal distribution's "bell curve".

• Generate more table versions of suitable pages as well as the more boring <PRE>...</PRE> versions. The code to do this is painful and Mosaic for X is so incredibly buggy with tables that I'm not particularly willing to do this.

• Redo the pretty robotic sound samples to produce more flowing speech that isn't from a dalek. A colleague now has a PC SoundBlaster 32 card, software and a microphone, so I'll probably have a go with that, perhaps detecting the browser client and supplying .wav samples for PCs and .au samples for other machines. Mind you, do you really need stereo sound when I read out the lottery numbers and jackpot amount ?

• Enhance the lottery links section (it's pretty basic at the moment), including:
  • Rating each site out of 10. [Done]
  • Indicating last time a good connection was established. [Done]
  • Displaying the date when the linked page was last modified.
  • Indicating if Netscape extensions are used by a site.
  • Indicating if a background graphic is loaded (irritating !) along with its size.
  • Displaying the total number of graphic/text connections and the total size of all data if the link is followed.
  • Show an extract of the text of the home page of each link so that people have an idea of its content (e.g. the first 2 sentences or something).
  • Allowing the entire links database to be searched with any keyword(s). [Done, but not exactly, er, good]
  • Have a form for people to submit new lottery links they've found. [Done]

  I would attempt to automate everything above except the ratings out of 10.

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