I’ve got to ask…
If you’ve visited this site before, what do you think of the design changes I’ve made this past week? I wanted to address the ‘information overload’ common not only to many blogs, but a lot of other websites as well.
As with our homes, it’s much better (in my view) to have most of our clutter tucked away, and so I’ve hopefully managed to keep all the necessary stuff that people like—the archives, recent comments, latest entries—easily accessible, but hidden away until you actually want to access them. What’s more, I’ve actually managed to provide more links than previously to short asides in the right-hand sidebar (three instead of just the one)–although this change has involved doing away with the idea of presenting them in full, and instead providing extracts instead to entice the reader in to get the full story.
tags: blogging, contact form, MyBlogLog, site registration, web design, widgets2004: Maggie’s Moon
2004 was a difficult year, one that I would characterise as involving a dramatic life change. I started blogging the same month I was diagnosed with Mal de Debarquement Syndrome (MdDS), and for the first year of living with the disability my balance was at its worst. It’s nearly always the same for MdDS sufferers, as if the brain struggles to cope with whatever’s gone wrong, and doesn’t do a particularly good job of it. After those 12 months or so, compensatory mechanisms seem to kick in and you find yourself better able to deal with, or accommodating, the weird sensory effects that MdDS puts upon you. I couldn’t spend much time in front of a computer, perhaps fifteen minutes a day, tops, but you’d never tell from the number of poems I published in the first five months, the tail end of 2004, back when the blog was hosted on Blogger.
tags: archives, blogging, creative writing, past, poems, retrospective, stories
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