Looking for a design solution

On Wildmind’s blog home page I have a long list of authors, which currently stands at about 45 items. It’s getting longer all the time as well.

I’d really like to find a good design solution that allows me to keep links to all the authors but doesn’t lead to a hugely tall column.

Something like a list of the top 15 or 20 authors with a “more authors…” link that would show the rest would be great, but I can’t see any way to implement something like that in WordPress using the wp_list_authors tag.

Any other creative solution would be welcomed. On the sidebar of this blog’s home page you can see a neat way of keeping the archive list (“Previous posts”) under control. On the Wildmind home page you can see a neat revolving tag cloud. Those are the kind of creative response I’m looking for.

I’d even thought of an “author cloud” but it wouldn’t be a good fit in the space available and I also haven’t found any information — that I can understand at least — that allows that to happen.

Anyone have any ideas? Seen any neat ways of presenting long lists that might work for me?

One Response to “Looking for a design solution”

1. Bodhipaksa says:

   March 17, 2009 at 8:17 am

   Well, despite an overwhelming lack of suggestions I found what I think is a reasonably elegant suggestion — using avatars to represent authors. It’s much more compact since I can have five authors to a line rather than just one. There are still a few bugs to sort out (the title code visible on “hover” is a bit messy) but I’m talking to the authors of the plugin I used and hope to have a fix soon. I’d also like to have a text list of the authors’ names available as a flyout div, triggered by clicking on a link or hovering over it. But I’ll have to do some research to figure out how to do that.