At one job back in the 2000s a few of us on the team would enjoy a 4 pm break to watch a favorite classic Warner Brothers cartoon, from one of many multi-disc DVD collections we each owned.
To choose the cartoon of the day someone would shout out a title, or the name of a character, but at times memory might fail, and we’d end up watching a Hubie and Bertie cartoon, but not the Hubie & Bertie cartoon we were thinking of.
My DVD and Blu-ray collection continued to grow over time, making the problem of recollection even more challenging when seeking to pull up a particular cartoon or collection of cartoons. Google searches and Wikipedia were infrequently helpful, and fan sites and wikis were overburdened with completionist bloat and barrel-scraping advertisements.
So I built Duckapedia, a phone-optimized site purpose-built for quickly recalling a particular cartoon, and locating the physical disc on which it could be found. Films can be found by character, by title, by premise, or by year (while including only the good cartoons from the 1960s, and nothing later than 1964).
For the header graphic I used Mark Simonson’s Lakeside to evoke the hand lettering of “That’s All, Folks!” I kept graphics fairly limited (a gradient background, a cartoon carrot, and cover artwork for the DVD and Blu-ray cases) to optimized for the speed of navigation from page to page.
I also optimized for the simplicity of coding. I knew that the site would grow to hundreds of pages (nearly 500 at present), and I would be hand-typing all of it. (At most I would lean on spreadsheet formulas to help me populate long lists.)
While I was my own client for this, the site has exceeded my own expectations for how useful it has been, especially when programming an evening’s entertainment with family and friends. Perhaps it can be of use to the Looney Tunes fan in your life.