In the beginning there was…
08/06/2008 10:00 AM Filed in: DawsonDoes
In the
beginning, there was maniacal mumbling. It didn’t
take long to discover the source: it was me.
Setting up a new site for myself in a short period of time was enough to cause some standard, basic mumbling, but when I started in on this blogging thing, that’s when the maniacal part started. It wasn’t the actual blog set-up that caused it, it was the realization that: a) phase one of putting together this site was almost complete and, b) I don’t know a damn thing about blogging.
Setting up a new site for myself in a short period of time was enough to cause some standard, basic mumbling, but when I started in on this blogging thing, that’s when the maniacal part started. It wasn’t the actual blog set-up that caused it, it was the realization that: a) phase one of putting together this site was almost complete and, b) I don’t know a damn thing about blogging.
In the
beginning, there was maniacal mumbling. It didn’t
take long to discover the source: it was me.
Setting up a new site for myself in a short period of time was enough to cause some standard, basic mumbling, but when I started in on this blogging thing, that’s when the maniacal part started. It wasn’t the actual blog set-up that caused it, it was the realization that: a) phase one of putting together this site was almost complete and, b) I don’t know a damn thing about blogging.
What do I have to talk about? What does one wear to a blogging? What is a blog, really, after all? I checked Wikipedia, but it didn’t answer all my questions, so I guess I’ll just have to wing it. At least now I’ll have the blog that so many of you haven’t asked for up and running.
This is my first blog post, so it’s as much a test of the system as it is anything else. With luck, it’ll work just fine out of the box: we’ll see. It should have the main blog section—what you’re reading now—and a comments/talk-back section, too. If it doesn’t have the main blog section, that means that you’re not reading this now and won’t be using the comments feed, after all. Logical, huh?
What’s it really all about? C’mon, Dawson, cut to the chase: give us the real meat and potatoes. Okay, here’s what it’s all about. It’s about this site; it’s about DawsonDoes; it’s about my services; it’s about whatever I feel like talking about; it’s about keeping you informed.
Let’s talk about the site, first. Putting this site together has been a real trial for me, not from a technical standpoint, but in finding all the components I wanted to use and then formatting them for the web. Oddly, putting things together for a client is far, far simpler than doing the same thing for myself (I’m not sure exactly why that is, but other artists have mentioned it, too). One of the advantages of working on a job for a client is that they often have at least some idea of what they want, and I just have to produce it to their satisfaction. Not so when you’re doing it for yourself. It took me awhile to figure out just what I wanted to have, then I had to produce it, page by page. I wrote everything on the site page by page as I went along—kind of a stream of consciousness type of thing. Now that the site is up, I can go back and refine everything.
That’s all for now. Remember that this is a test posting. Please feel free to try the comments feed or, if that doesn’t work, simply click on the Contact Me link, and let me know what you think. Criticisms? Suggestions? Kudos? I welcome them all. The more I know about what you think, the better I can make the site.
Thanks.
Lemmeknow.
Setting up a new site for myself in a short period of time was enough to cause some standard, basic mumbling, but when I started in on this blogging thing, that’s when the maniacal part started. It wasn’t the actual blog set-up that caused it, it was the realization that: a) phase one of putting together this site was almost complete and, b) I don’t know a damn thing about blogging.
What do I have to talk about? What does one wear to a blogging? What is a blog, really, after all? I checked Wikipedia, but it didn’t answer all my questions, so I guess I’ll just have to wing it. At least now I’ll have the blog that so many of you haven’t asked for up and running.
This is my first blog post, so it’s as much a test of the system as it is anything else. With luck, it’ll work just fine out of the box: we’ll see. It should have the main blog section—what you’re reading now—and a comments/talk-back section, too. If it doesn’t have the main blog section, that means that you’re not reading this now and won’t be using the comments feed, after all. Logical, huh?
What’s it really all about? C’mon, Dawson, cut to the chase: give us the real meat and potatoes. Okay, here’s what it’s all about. It’s about this site; it’s about DawsonDoes; it’s about my services; it’s about whatever I feel like talking about; it’s about keeping you informed.
Let’s talk about the site, first. Putting this site together has been a real trial for me, not from a technical standpoint, but in finding all the components I wanted to use and then formatting them for the web. Oddly, putting things together for a client is far, far simpler than doing the same thing for myself (I’m not sure exactly why that is, but other artists have mentioned it, too). One of the advantages of working on a job for a client is that they often have at least some idea of what they want, and I just have to produce it to their satisfaction. Not so when you’re doing it for yourself. It took me awhile to figure out just what I wanted to have, then I had to produce it, page by page. I wrote everything on the site page by page as I went along—kind of a stream of consciousness type of thing. Now that the site is up, I can go back and refine everything.
That’s all for now. Remember that this is a test posting. Please feel free to try the comments feed or, if that doesn’t work, simply click on the Contact Me link, and let me know what you think. Criticisms? Suggestions? Kudos? I welcome them all. The more I know about what you think, the better I can make the site.
Thanks.
Lemmeknow.
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