March 31, 2003
picture pages, picture pages...
Yes, I know, I am posting a lot of silly little “pretty” pictures… its not filler, honest! I am trying to tweak everything to look nice, and add a bit of experimental content at the same time… I would love to have a little rotating show of fairly large-sized thumbnails, but I'm not that talented yet… I think the way the little moblog images are handled at dollarshort is very nice… I'll have to brainstorm some ideas… suggestions are welcome…
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March 29, 2003
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March 28, 2003
finding your voice...
it's interesting that blogging is now popular enough to have inspired tips and advice type guides like this excellent one at NSLog. I am obviously pretty new at this and guides like this are exceedingly helpful.
I also must say, as someone that appreciates fine design, even a newbie like myself can appreciate the elegance of the MovableType software. A finely made tool is truly a joy to use (and I barely know 5% of its capabilities).
Regarding blog tone, it's interesting, especially if you are a somewhat private person, to attempt to write in your own natural voice and at the same time strike the right balance in terms of the personal and public… to write naturally but also be somewhat self-sensoring regarding just how intimate a tone to adopt. This is where keeping your audience in mind is important. This is seemingly easy for me at the moment because being brand new I am fairly sure I have no audience. :)
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March 24, 2003
puttering along
slowly, slowly I am endeavoring to learn how to customize this site… this is slightly frustrating, as I should really be more concerned with content then “looks,” but aesthetics are important to me… when I look at something like Antipixel it almost makes me cry it's so well done… ah well, I'll experiment some more today and see what happens…
March 22, 2003
here I am...
welcome to my new weblog... the first thing you'll notice is that this looks pretty basic and fairly boring at the moment... I'm working on that, but I am learning as I go... I am neither a designer nor a web expert and my efforts to hire people with real talent have been unsuccessful thus far... so it goes...