Things which are in progress

[layla]

So here's what I've been doing today:

1. I made a Wordpress! Eventually this will be the central hub of my website. At the moment it's getting broken a lot as I play with styles and figure out where I want all the content to go.

2. I made a Tumblr! And I gotta say - as much as I always hated Tumblr as a casual browser of the site, I absolutely love its interface as a user. SO. EASY! Thus far, I am finding it incredibly fun to play with and generally quite intuitive/easy to figure out how to do things. I also think that posting a webcomic on Tumblr might work better than I had thought. This will be sort of a general art blog for me -- I'll be posting webcomic pages, random art, fanart, etc. (At least that's the idea.)

At this point, both of these things are highly experimental works in progress. However, after many years of doing all my website content management using hand-coded text files, I think I might be in the process of switching over to all-web-based content management. There are so many more and better tools for it than there were ten years ago. When I started poking around my website's back end today, I was expecting to end up feeling old and frustrated and out of the loop, but instead, the more I explore, the more fun I'm having. So many options! So many shiny content tools! I want to install them ALL. (Galleries! Video! Php goodies! Whee!)

Comments are welcome! If you see anything stupid and n00bish that I'm doing on either one of these, please tell me? In the meantime, I think I shall go back to playing with my shiny toys now. :D

Comments

[sentientcitizen]

Aha, oh, dear - it makes me smile to hear you say Tumblr is so easy to use! Most of us find it incredibly frustrating. *rueful grin* If you're the kind of person who uses browser extensions, I'd recommend looking up Missing E. It smooths out some of the site's quirks and eccentricities, and might keep you happier with it in the long run.

[layla]

Hmm! I'm finding it pretty easy so far? Signing up was a snap, and it was super easy to pick a theme and start posting things. I can see how it might become frustrating if I wanted to do anything complicated with it, though. Thank you for the suggestion - I don't normally use browser extensions, but I'll keep it in mind. :D

[thistleburr]

I think tumblr's ease of use from the perspective of someone with an account on the site is the single key to its popularity.

I have a tumblr too! :)

[layla]

Heh, I was thinking the exact same thing! Because I always found it hideously difficult to navigate, and then I got an account and discovered that all the basic stuff the site is designed for (posting things, reblogging stuff, following people) is SUPER EASY. I may eat my words later, and I guess it might be a more frustrating experience if I were trying to do anything more complicated with it -- I don't think I'd want it as my primary blog -- but for what I want, which is an artblog/sketch dump site, it looks like it's going to work just fine.

[thistleburr]

I use mine for the same thing, and that has been my experience as well.