Almost three years later… I got that job, after all. Still have it, although I have not been able to grow it the way I had originally hoped. But there are things to be proud of, and more to accomplish literally waiting there for me to take part in.
But for now, wait they shall.
Shall we agree that just this once, I’m gonna change my life
-Elvis Costello
I’m just not clear on what I want this website to look like. I get pulled two different directions based on whether I look at it as an organizational tool for my public facing digital life (for my use) or as an invitation to my public facing digital life (for the use of general netizens). Probably it needs to do both but I’m struggling to make it work for either. I have also waffled on whether the primary mode should be considered this weblog or the forums… and at this point both of those are probably out-of-date boomer coded modes, I should get me to video. Which I’m doing at a pace… there have been a few Twitch streams and I now have a YouTube Live account (the church is moving to YouTube from Facebook for streaming, this gives me another avenue to explore personally while learning how to improve my work for the church).
The format of the streams is suffering the same sort of identity crisis as that of the website.
So the current front page sucks and should replace it as soon as tonight if I put my mind or enough vodka to it. I think I might like the simplicity of the top menu forums… NAT… shop… weblog… the front page should probably be an overview or sampling of whatever project I’m working on most. So that means I should change the front page to a promotion/exploration/invitation to my streams. Branding and linking my Twitch and YouTube Live pages… embedding? Move… what I think I was trying to do with the multi-tabbed front page… to an About page.
The application of vodka has begun.
So, it turned out I applied a bit too much vodka. It’s now several months after I wrote but didn’t publish the above. Decided to throw it out there for the sake of completeness and also… it very much parallels the new entries I’ve been making on the forums: what is this site built for, how do I keep track, how do I interact with others?
This main weblog has more or less been referred to as facets… and I think I want to keep that… and figure out how to make my jjweek webstream another facet of facets. By which I mean, I should keep writing my stream of conciousness stuff here with the intent of percolating it down to a stream… which can than be further discussed in forums.
The stream is coming along, about halfway through the allotment of practice runs I gave myself before committing to a regular thing. And I feel like I know what I want to say in the next one.
The homepage of the website is probably the biggest opportunity right now… I should put something visual with links to the cool stuff. Not the visuals I had in the past. The next stream should coincide with the addition of streamy links and resources on the website.