Ramblings of a web designer
But thankfully, Vinod won’t hate me TOO much for doing this.
On another note, in case you haven’t noticed, some of my pictures are up! So view away!
So I’ve noticed that since I’ve switched from beta.vinoj.com to Vinoj.com, there’ve been significantly more hits on the site. So what does that say about my family and friends? That they’re too lazy to type in ‘beta’ into the address bar? That it was harder to remember?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m very excited that people are ‘chatting’ in one way or another to each other through the site, no matter what the post. The “thought of the day” post itself from a couple of days ago has received 7 or 8 comments already. Muy interessante.
And now I have to go to work. Grrr. I hate mornings. Thankfully for this American culture class, I was able to teach them most of their lessons pretty quickly and now I’m going to show them Night at the Museum as a … cultural movie. C’mon! It’s got Teddy Roosevelt, the Wild West, and other history stuff. That counts… right?
Not bad. So this is what I’ve done. I moved everything from beta.vinoj.com to this site, *and* was able to include all the posts from the old blogger account onto this one. So that means every post that I’ve written since 2003 is now on this site. Not too shabby, eh? That includes all the hilarious Amit ‘Quotes of the Day’ from when I first came to India and was working at Microsoft.
Of course, what’s *missing* right now are all the old pics that I had up, but most people weren’t looking at those anyway. I’ll be putting up some more links and perhaps a different design when I get some time, but I think it’s ironic that a web designer doesn’t have time to do his own website because he’s too busy doing everyone else’s. Physician heal thyself, or something.
And with that I’m out. Oh- Happy Easter!
I noticed that I haven’t posted anything in a little bit. And by that maybe I just mean a day. But whatever it’s still a day when I had gotten back into regularly posting. Then I realized why… it’s because of this damn redesign.
I’m getting way too much flack for this. It’s my design. My website. Yesterday I heard, “That’s lame with a capital L.” Wow. That sucked hard. Especially because it takes hours to come up with a design for me. Would someone say that to an artist who spent time on a sculpture? I think not. Then I would hear things look gay this way or that way, blah blah blah. Listen- the reason I won’t be using the design you see here is because it’s not *my work*. I didn’t design crap of this. So how does a *web designer* have any respect if his own homepage isn’t by him? Exactly.
But right now I can’t even look at my site or the ‘redesign’ of it. I go through the Photoshop file and I keep hearing voices of people who didn’t like this aspect or that aspect and I get frustrated. Now I can’t even see colors clearly– not literally– just as in, I keep mixing weird-ass colors like green and purple. (Anyone want a Joker-style version? Lemme know. Actually you know what, don’t. I’m done with feedback.)
Maybe I’m just irritated over the past couple of….days… weeks… months. India’s taking a toll on me. I’m ready to leave. Permanently. Plus today I’ll find out (in about 3-4 hours) if I have typhoid or malaria or some other god-forsaken 3rd World disease. Disease, stress, and now the one thing I do at home with which I found respite and recreation- my own website/web design- I can’t do because I’m too self-conscious. Wow.
Things are goin’ great around here.
*Note – This isn’t the final design for the new site. (Sorry Nitu and others!) The header will be changed but I really enjoy the body organization of the posts with this template, so I think I’ll be using it.*
If you’re interested in seeing the new design, this is what it will sorta look like…
or just copy/paste this- http://beta.vinoj.com/images/design-newer.jpg
And no, I’m not changing it anymore. I like this flavor I’m coming up with, and I’m sticking with it.
Hey I need you guys to please check out my alpha-phase new picture gallery.Basically what I need from you guys is to check out the pics and see if you can add comments onto there. As you can tell, there’s no real designing or css implemented yet. But first I gotta see if the thing works correctly.
Thanks,
V
Hey so I need people to like, bookmark the beta site as the main page for now. Because I’m not really writing anything here. The files will stay here for a while longer, until I’m done with the redesign. But I want comments and feedback so yeah.
K, I’m out.
Peas
V
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