Fame
Wow… this evening I got a very, very pleasant surprise when I found out some of my cover art (for some music mixes) was featured on the Jewelboxing blog! It turns out that they periodically look through flickr for cool uses of the Jewelboxing cd cases and this time one of my mix tapes was one of the finds! They even spent a little time and dug up last year’s Red Roses Mix! Rock on!And if you’re coming here from Jewelboxing.com, I should hopefully have a new picture up later today!
Concept Wireframe
I haven’t done this before, but I’m going to document the site redesign/realign that I’m currently working on. So far, I’ve got one wireframe up that may or may not be followed by a full graphics mockup directly from the wireframe. Please let me know what you think! Thanks!
Imminent Realign
Lately, I’ve started thinking about updating the design of this site. I do this probably more often than I should, and I believe it has to do with the fact that I never really finish every aspect of the site. Over the last five days or so though, I’ve gotten a lot of inspiration to make changes, especially after listening to a couple of the keynotes from SxSW. The big thing that I’m taking away from everything I’ve heard and read is that I really need to figure out who I am—not so much who I am as a person, but who I am on the web. That pretty much equates to my own personal “brand.” It isn’t a hard concept, but I’ve yet to come up with an answer. In the past I’ve just thrown stuff up here however I wanted to, and with the exception of the odd article-quality entry or rant, has been more of a personal journal than a blog for most of the time. I talk about anything from what’s going in my life to my healthy admiration of all things Apple, LEGO (Star Wars), and VW. Throw in a bunch of photo entries and you’ve pretty much got my site pegged.
I also have to be concerned with my audience, but that would be a heck of a lot easier if I knew who they are. I think right now, most of my hits come from one-time visits generated from search engine clicks, and that’s great. But what I’m going to have to work out is how to convert all those one-time visits into recurring visits—not to mention getting my feed into people’s newsreaders. To do that, I’ve got to spend more time writing longer entires that people will want to take the time to read. I’m not sure how that’s going to happen, but we’ll see. I’m going to keep at it and hopefully, I’ll be able to complete this realign soon.
CSS Mastery
I got my copy of CSS Mastery yesterday and spent the rest of the evening looking through it. So far, I’ve only completely read the first two chapters, it takes awhile to read things word for word, but I’ve learned a few things already! I can’t wait to look at it some more tonight!