Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Web Slingerz
It's finally getting back to normal at work and one of the things I've been doing with my down time is figuring out how to update my personal website (bryonquertermous.com) and/or my blog. My current website is very outdated and this blog isn't quite as well organized as I'd like for everything. With the kind of traffic I get to this blog it seems stupid to have a separate website just to house all of the same stuff. I think I'm going to take my bryonquertermous.com domain name and just attach it to my blog and leave it at that.

For this purpose though, I don't like Blogger that much. I've been playing around with Wordpress and I like the layout and possibilities of that more for a central site, but I'm not sure what to do with all of the stuff over here. If I move the blog to Wordpress will my readers come with me? Most of my traffic comes from direct access or through Crimespot, so as long as Graham is nice enough to add my new blog to the site I should be fine there and I can put a link up at this site so I guess that would work.

The other issue I've been folling around with is layout design. I've always been fascinated by layout design and while I think I'm fairly talented at it, I'm nowhere near as good as I'd like to be or as many of the others in my blogroll over there. I'm too cheap to pay the $15 bucks at Wordpress needed to do intimate customizations so that's been a treat and a half on my old brain. But it's coming along.

All through college when I was working on newspapers and literary magazines the part I enjoyed the most was doing the layout. I could pass an entire day without eating or drinking just trying to get everything to look perfect. After I started realizing how much I hate the reporting part of the newspaper busines I looked into becoming a layout artist/copy editor but my crappy spelling and grammar skills couldn't be helped by my design skills or AP style knowledge. Oh well.

So for those out there with blogs and websites, do you see an advantage to having both or would you ever consider combining them?
 
posted by Bryon Quertermous at 12:14 PM | Permalink |


6 Comments:


  • At 1:55 PM, Blogger Chris

    I'm kind of in the same boat as you. Recently, I put together a website at the suggestion of my agent, and I would have loved to roll the content of my blog right in to avoid redundancy. The problem is, any established web-presence I have is tied to the blog. So for now, I'm holding onto both. Of course, you could just auto-forward your domain to the blog, and that would solve any redundancy issues...

     

  • At 2:39 PM, Blogger Graham Powell

    ...as long as Graham is nice enough to add my new blog to the site...

    There'll be a small fee associated with that - 1 arm and 1 leg, preferably your own. Or, if you'd like to defer payment, I will accept your firstborn child.

     

  • At 5:22 PM, Blogger pattinase (abbott)

    Pity the people who can't begin to understand how to customize anything. Oh, for a techie head.

     

  • At 5:46 PM, Blogger John R

    Anyone who combines their blog and their website is a fool and a charlatan and you'd be well advised to avoid such idiotic company.

     

  • At 6:07 PM, Blogger Bryon Quertermous

    I try to avoid you, but you keep calling me at home.

     

  • At 8:10 PM, Blogger John R

    What choice do I have since you barred my number on your cell phone?

    I know you're just playing hard to get, anyway. Tease.

     
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