I suppose that after having this site/blog up and running for as long as I have I “should” have decided on a direction for it by now. But. Is it really important to actually have a well defined “direction” for a personal blog?
If your life has many different facets, then shouldn’t any blog you run reflect that? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
For a business-type blog direction is important. You want your visitors to know what to expect, not just from your blog, but from your business. However, I feel that the sky’s the limit when it comes to personal blogs. They are there solely to provide an outlet to your personality — a place for you to spout off share information and ideas.
That isn’t to say that your personal blog should be an unorganized jumble that is completely incoherent and impossible to follow. There does need to be some level of organization and some level of direction for each of the organizational areas so as to provide your visitors with some reason to return.
I feel as if I’ve failed at this with My Humble Abode. For that, I am sorry. I honestly have spent more time thinking about other aspects of my life (such as my budding photography endeavor) than I have on what I wanted from this site.
That will change. I have spent the last couple days redesigning the look of the site to give it a more personal touch and to visually “brighten” it up. I felt that the old look of it, and honestly several previous versions I recently stumbled upon in my backups, was dark, drab, and dreary.
If you have comments on the new appearance, please leave them in the comments for this post (or send ‘em to me via the contact page) and I’ll take them into consideration.
As for the organization and content, well… that’s going to undergo some changes in the coming few days. I’m going to try to reduce the number of post categories and number of tags used as well as to try and make them more useful. Actually, I might just wind up consolidating the categories and tags and just using one or the other. The rants and drivel will, probably, go as well, since I’m trying to make this a more positive and informative site. Sure, I’ll still have opinions, but I’m going to do my best at presenting them in a better manner.
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