Comments on: Up for Review

By: Craig C.

Craig C. — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 04:40:00 +0000

The archives page uses the MtDewVirus hack, but I’m looking into other options in the near future. I don’t like the idea of the archives turning into a huge scrollathon, yet I don’t want to break it down month-by-month either. I’m thinking 3-month chunks would be cool, with some means of navigating from chunk to chunk. We’ll see what I come up with.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:48:23 +0000

Whatever you do don’t stop posting, I’ve enjoyed reading your site since I found it (on whitespace). You can count me as a regular from this point forward.

Interesting, well written subjects.

I’m also interested in your archives page, is it custom or a WP plugin? (if you don’t mind.)

By: Craig C.

Craig C. — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:12:59 +0000

Well it was never a lack of confidence driving my angst. It was just the whole “what’s the point” kind of thing. If a blogger posts in the forest and nobody is there to read…

Already the exposure from Whitespace has led several new visitors this way, and I’m getting tons of google traffic on the Guerra scam post, so it’s been encouraging. Now I just gotta find the time to write.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:05:12 +0000

I agree with Kevin, you have to be confident (or act confident). We all have to be slightly egotistical to think that anyone wants to read our blogs but that’s O.K. Don’t worry about whether you deserve an audience. The hard work you put in is enough justification, I think. And don’t worry about numbers. Is Glenn Reynolds really the greatest blogger because he gets millions of hits? (They stay for an average of 8.2 seconds by the way!) Meena Trott said recently that she sometimes feels that she would rather have 10 or 20 readers who really understood her rather than the thousands she gets because of MT and Typepad. That sound cool to me.
Like your blog btw, good luck :)

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:47:43 +0000

Thanks for the feedback guys. That’s two votes against the header already. I’ve never been quite satisfied with it either. While I think it’s a damn cool image on its own and I’m rather proud of my Photoshoppery, it’s never felt like it fully integrated into the rest of the site. I’ve been kicking around a few ideas for a future redesign, so my floating logo will surely disappear eventually, but not any time soon.

“You may remember me from such self-help tapes as ‘Smoke Yourself Thin’ and ‘Get Confident, Stupid!’”

- T. McLure