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May 21, 2005
Pixel Styxx: Kilroy Roger's & Hammerstein Ballroom Blitz
Good god of the digital age—it would be like the dude that pushes the big ball up the hill perpetually——that is SO exactly what the web is all about———a lot of grunt & strain that’s never done, never there, and good enough. But hell boy R.D., I just spent I don’t know how many fucking hours—pretty much all day as it’s suddenly ‘bout midnight somehow—just working on the presentation/design of my two (mostly the Off) blogs, which I’m now confused and feeling a little bad about. Confused because in with those bad feelings are really good feelings, and some of the bad are because it’s the nature of the beast, but a good bit of bad because I should have a) used the time more wisely, and b) been quicker and better with the HTML seein’ as how that’s been my profession for top notch high-payin (& falutin’) Global 500 (oh, yes I did) clients. And I’m that inefficient and sucky and having to—oh, this is great, embarrassing example/confession this one here—look up the order of margin&padding attributes. For the records they go top, right, bottom, left. Nice ‘n’ clockwise easy. After all the time of focused and dedicated work effort (and that’s definitely part of the good feelins, the detail, focus, don’t stop til it’s totally 100% done no matter how back aches, eyes glaze, et al—good job, man) I really didn’t get all that much done. No major redesign, new template, layout—no, nothing worthy of such a time suck as that—just minor tweaks, adjustments, additions, fixes, etc. And here we’ve arrived at the core/crux of my confusion, because all that’s even lamer when you consider the following two things (aka clinchers): 1) how much less important relatively the look—however pretty, snappy, artsy, reflective or augmenting of the content it is—is compared to the content, and that not only do I have some to write/record before it’s forgotten and lost but the mounds and reams of written content that I’d like to and should be entered—so, way more content work to do, and that work is also way more a priority, and 2) the fact that I’m doing all this on Blogger, after I’ve spent money on a domain, hosting, and software that goes unused as long as I continue to use blogger—wasting my money and a software package and set-up that is way better, more powerful & versatile, AND looks better (not having that little banner dealy at the top), PLUS, all this work will just make migrating that much harder and will have to be redone in that process. And if I’m not going to get content in, I could at least get MT configured and set-up, but I’m not only not doing that, I’m making that configure & set-up more complicated. Brilliant. And all for very little effect in the end.
But then again, design is muchly in the details. And, I’m really happy with the results—a lo-fi, textjam ala [neighme] Carson (no, not necessarily original, but I think pretty well done) with cool found snips of text from various sources. And the design needed to be done and refined at somepoint. And now I have a blueprint for what I want in MT, which will help that process and also inform some decisions re importing,etc. And I figure I’ll keep the blogger stuff where it is after move, with a ‘hey, we’ve moved, check us out at atribology.net’ notice/link, as way to make proj more accesible, gen more viewers, etc. so that work has to be done there. And Off went a long time with virtually no layout, treatment, etc. now both are up and going and looking good, which will help content be paid attention to (when/if anybody ever comes, but I’m not going to work on that till I’m ready—after move at least), cuz for all the content inthe world you could put on there, if it’s a shit hole, andlooks like a shithole, people will think it’s a shithole, and will treat it like a shithole. (to some degree, anyway). And content, is a never ending job. This I got done (phase I—still stuff to be done but at good point). Very satisfying.
But damn, so much time! I’d change a font and that would fuck everything up, then decide to do it differently, then couldn’t figure out why it was doing x or not y, jesus.
Posted by peligrito at May 21, 2005 11:45 PM
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