Through an understandable but very avoidable blunder with which I will not bore you by explaining, I have wound up in the situation you see in front of your eyes — an empty web page. My first thought when this happened was to quickly start uploading all my files back onto the website. I would have to reorganize it all to make this happen.
This would restore the approximately two hundred pages of information on my website; two hundred pages of widely different subject matters, littered with typos, and highly disorganized. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy maintaining those hundreds of pages of unorganized information. It’s even been useful to some people, judging from the 518 viewers who visited the site last month, viewing an average of ten pages each. But as I’ve added things to it haphazardly over the last two years, all the while learning about the best ways to write and use software and analyze things, the website’s been constantly changing until things have become just as chaotic as this sentence, and in which it is just as hard to find the sort of central unifying theme or set of things we expect of a website.
And then I realized that this was a clean slate. A chance to start things over and think things through, piece by piece. A chance to build a nice clean site organized by WordPress software. So that’s what I’m going to do. Starting tonight, I’ll build this thing piece by piece, carefully and thoughtfully. Sure, the organization won’t be perfect–it never is–but it’ll be a big step up from what I had before in terms of usefulness and readability.
Of course, that might lose me some readership. But it’s the way I’m going to do this. Because this is my website, and I want it to be right.
a fresh start
Through an understandable but very avoidable blunder with which I will not bore you by explaining, I have wound up in the situation you see in front of your eyes — an empty web page. My first thought when this happened was to quickly start uploading all my files back onto the website. I would have to reorganize it all to make this happen.
This would restore the approximately two hundred pages of information on my website; two hundred pages of widely different subject matters, littered with typos, and highly disorganized. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy maintaining those hundreds of pages of unorganized information. It’s even been useful to some people, judging from the 518 viewers who visited the site last month, viewing an average of ten pages each. But as I’ve added things to it haphazardly over the last two years, all the while learning about the best ways to write and use software and analyze things, the website’s been constantly changing until things have become just as chaotic as this sentence, and in which it is just as hard to find the sort of central unifying theme or set of things we expect of a website.
And then I realized that this was a clean slate. A chance to start things over and think things through, piece by piece. A chance to build a nice clean site organized by WordPress software. So that’s what I’m going to do. Starting tonight, I’ll build this thing piece by piece, carefully and thoughtfully. Sure, the organization won’t be perfect–it never is–but it’ll be a big step up from what I had before in terms of usefulness and readability.
Of course, that might lose me some readership. But it’s the way I’m going to do this. Because this is my website, and I want it to be right.
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