The next few weeks
There's not normally this long a gap between posts around here. I been busy though.
My ex makes hand-made organic soaps/scultures that she sells at street fairs (REALLY good stuff…I got skin issues sometimes and the chamomile soap just handles it). She has this boutique joint selling it too. Doing pretty well.
She want to look into internet sales now, so I get a phone call. Cool, but a definite distraction My daughter is going to do the visual stuff. She's an astounding artist, no brag. If she'd let me hand out some links to some fan sites she designed for her crew on LiveJournal...Anyway, love my kid, taught her HTML and CSS but I've never worked with her. Add to that the need to bone up on accessibility requirements (and commercial site that doesn't is just stupid) and I'm going to have to back away from at least one of my background projects.
That's fine anyway. I've been giving some thought to my approach, the link forum and aggregation blog. I've decided I didn't have a clue in life what I was doing. The link forum needs, well, links. It's like any other network thing: it's value increased as the square of the number of links of some such statistical crap. That means in the beginning no one is interested but me. So I need to populate it, and that means reading a whole lot of sites. And I have to come up with categories that are useful to other people…you may not have noticed but I consider elements that most other folks don't and ignore a lot that other feel important (one of my favorite wise old saying is, "It's amazing how many things there are that actually aren't").
As for the aggregation blog, I have automated assistance but it's still a manual thing. Not to mention that it's pretty much what I do here, truth be told. I have the germ of an idea of a new approach. I need time to let it feed in my subconscious.
So, working with my daughter on a web site for her mother that will make me learn a few practical things comes up right about on time. Rather than displacing something it's giving me space to think about how to get all the ragged egdes of my projects neatly hemmed and cuffed.
