Fri: Jun 13 2008

"redesign needed, walking into walls"
4 comments,

A sort of update and some personal thoughts regarding the blog.

I have over a month left in the UK and my exams were over last week, which means I will spend this last month balancing leaving arrangements and doing as much slacking and bumming as I have longed to do when spending those afternoons and evenings struggling with revision.

I am also quite keen on a website revamp, not just in terms of aesthetics (I have improved ever so slowly over the years in this respect) but in fulfilling its identity as a blog. I know, I know. Irregular updates. An extremely weak ‘blogroll’. A lazy, dismissive attitude towards the blogosphere. That’s me. Such are the conditions of maintaining a blog. I don’t have to follow the rules. But part of me kinda wants to. There’s also all the other stuff I want to clean up. Links, tags and categories, navigation. It’s terrible and is in great need of organisation.

On the topic of website prettiness, I have had an idea of a layout for a couple of months, but now that I’ve had time to sit down and look over my drafts, I find I don’t like it at all. Cue some surfing over at Smashing Magazine for inspiration, and a look over my private archive of past layouts and drafts. I’m not feeling it. This may take a while.

The other side of the coin is the type of posts I write, the ‘genre’ of blog I aim to create. Little direction here as well. I have certainly been attracted - which may have been evident for the past year - to the idea of writing themed articles rather than personal blog posts, but I don’t really feel I have the flair for that. And anyway, I am so narcissistic that references to my personal life creep in anyway. I rant, I link, I try to write properly once in a while, and then more linking, more ranting, and then I link some more. In the end, this is a blog I’m writing, not a magazine, and I have never had a coherent ‘theme’ to be able to classify the kind of posts I write anyway. I write about books and games, but have also wandered to feminism, photo posts, AIDS, and gloves. It sounds like the inside of my head. And maybe I should stick to that label. I’ve been doing it for years, after all.

So can I only ask of ye readers, and you may drop me a line personally if you want (email/Facebook), what exactly do you come here for?¹ I have a suspicion that most of ya’s are personal acquaintances just keeping up with me.

Oh and thank you for visiting. If you’re lucky, the next time you visit, this will not be the post you see at the top of the page.

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1 - History repeats itself. This is not the first time I’ve requested this of my readers.

 
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4 Comments »

1. wondering what’s in your head. ^^

   Comment by ummi — July 16, 2008 @ 2:03 pm

2. Mostly for the orgasm I get whenever I enter here. Your writings just so happen to impress me most of the times.

   Comment by Joey — August 30, 2008 @ 3:24 am

3. All other web logs are like “bloo bloo I’m a loser I’m a failure to everyone” or “listen to me I am philosophical I got everything figured out ha ha” or some other lame combination of the two. ROFL. You the only one keeping it real, Hazzer.

   Comment by Iqbal — September 1, 2008 @ 1:05 pm

4. I completely forget I put this pathetic post up. Thanks a lot for your comments guys Still trying to figure out the direction of my blog…

   Comment by hazM — September 3, 2008 @ 2:12 am

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