a website project
Jun. 5th, 2003 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7am i right in thinking that i'm always flitting from one thing to the next and can never finish the ambitious things i tackle?
well, I've got another one, and more ambitious than the others!
It started off with me thinking of actually getting around to making my own personal website. I've learned so much at work, it's time to apply it to actually making myself a fairly professional-looking home site. Right? Sure.
So I was thinking of what to put in it, and I was pondering, and messing about. I'd given it a funky title, and had been playing around with the design of it and the layout.
And then my mom IM'd me that my late grandmother's cousin Betty had just died, and grandma's sister was upset. So I wrote to my great-aunt Kay about it, and mentioned how hard it must be at this point, with so few left who remember the old times now. I mentioned for some reason that I'd made Dad's Vietnam memories into a website (i'm too ashamed to link to it here, for reasons I'll explain in a moment). I sent her the link to it, and was looking at it. It's old and it's ugly. I was being all experimental and learning stuff, and I did some really cool things but most of what I did is sort of... obnoxious and elementary. I have to redo it, I absolutely have to.
I've also been working on a project about my grandmother, who at this point died months and months and months ago. It's shameful how little progress I've made on it, at all.
So. I have to overhaul the Vietnam thing, and I have to actually WORK on the grandma one. And I thought, why not connect them? Indeed, why not expand them? Why not do a whole family tree thing in web form? Family trees are artificial constructions; families are actually more web-shaped and interconnect in fascinating ways. I don't want to use Grandma as the root of a tree-type structure, because my other grandmother, who is still living, is an accomplished genaeologist whose work should be featured in an online format as well, and I want to talk about Aunt Kay, as well. As one of few of her generation left, she's an important source for me. Grandma has taught me not to postpone, but to interview the oldest ones first!! So I'm going to talk to Aunt Kay a bit about what she can remember-- just to get the story down, and some of the details at least-- and ask her who else I should talk to.
I'm not sure what kind of story I want to tell, which I should straighten out before I spend too much time disturbing her. (Aunt Kay must be 85 at least, and her husband died recently of a heart attack while swimming-- totally unexpected, but then he was in his late 80s as well-- but she's at least active online. She's got an email address with webtv.net and emails everyone almost every day. I haven't seen her in ten years, though, so i don't know about her health or physical state. So I'm not taking any chances. I should talk to her _soon_.)
I'm not sure what form i want this to take, either. But I definitely want to do some kind of elaborate family thing.
There are ulterior motives, don't worry. See, I want to do a personal website to showcase all the mad 1337 5|<i11z I've learned-- including search engine optimization and other interesting and marketable things-- and this is a good format for that. Genaeology and the like, and family homepages, are very common things. I don't know that there's much money in it, but there's certainly a lot of attention to devote to it. So I'm going to work on that. I don't know how much I'll actually do, but I might as well try it, right?? Oh, by the way, I cannot post comments to livejournal. I just can't post any at all. i don't know why. Not from the Mac, not from the PC. Not in Mozilla, not in IE, not in IE Mac, not in Safari. Nothing. Action "post" not allowed. It's like a 404 error. it's obviously not universal, since Kat can comment on my journal... but I can't answer her. So, obnoxious. Don't expect replies from me right away!
well, I've got another one, and more ambitious than the others!
It started off with me thinking of actually getting around to making my own personal website. I've learned so much at work, it's time to apply it to actually making myself a fairly professional-looking home site. Right? Sure.
So I was thinking of what to put in it, and I was pondering, and messing about. I'd given it a funky title, and had been playing around with the design of it and the layout.
And then my mom IM'd me that my late grandmother's cousin Betty had just died, and grandma's sister was upset. So I wrote to my great-aunt Kay about it, and mentioned how hard it must be at this point, with so few left who remember the old times now. I mentioned for some reason that I'd made Dad's Vietnam memories into a website (i'm too ashamed to link to it here, for reasons I'll explain in a moment). I sent her the link to it, and was looking at it. It's old and it's ugly. I was being all experimental and learning stuff, and I did some really cool things but most of what I did is sort of... obnoxious and elementary. I have to redo it, I absolutely have to.
I've also been working on a project about my grandmother, who at this point died months and months and months ago. It's shameful how little progress I've made on it, at all.
So. I have to overhaul the Vietnam thing, and I have to actually WORK on the grandma one. And I thought, why not connect them? Indeed, why not expand them? Why not do a whole family tree thing in web form? Family trees are artificial constructions; families are actually more web-shaped and interconnect in fascinating ways. I don't want to use Grandma as the root of a tree-type structure, because my other grandmother, who is still living, is an accomplished genaeologist whose work should be featured in an online format as well, and I want to talk about Aunt Kay, as well. As one of few of her generation left, she's an important source for me. Grandma has taught me not to postpone, but to interview the oldest ones first!! So I'm going to talk to Aunt Kay a bit about what she can remember-- just to get the story down, and some of the details at least-- and ask her who else I should talk to.
I'm not sure what kind of story I want to tell, which I should straighten out before I spend too much time disturbing her. (Aunt Kay must be 85 at least, and her husband died recently of a heart attack while swimming-- totally unexpected, but then he was in his late 80s as well-- but she's at least active online. She's got an email address with webtv.net and emails everyone almost every day. I haven't seen her in ten years, though, so i don't know about her health or physical state. So I'm not taking any chances. I should talk to her _soon_.)
I'm not sure what form i want this to take, either. But I definitely want to do some kind of elaborate family thing.
There are ulterior motives, don't worry. See, I want to do a personal website to showcase all the mad 1337 5|<i11z I've learned-- including search engine optimization and other interesting and marketable things-- and this is a good format for that. Genaeology and the like, and family homepages, are very common things. I don't know that there's much money in it, but there's certainly a lot of attention to devote to it. So I'm going to work on that. I don't know how much I'll actually do, but I might as well try it, right?? Oh, by the way, I cannot post comments to livejournal. I just can't post any at all. i don't know why. Not from the Mac, not from the PC. Not in Mozilla, not in IE, not in IE Mac, not in Safari. Nothing. Action "post" not allowed. It's like a 404 error. it's obviously not universal, since Kat can comment on my journal... but I can't answer her. So, obnoxious. Don't expect replies from me right away!
this is from kat
Date: 2003-06-07 09:08 pm (UTC)I kept getting the error message too for awhile, but I ofund it always posted by comment anyway.
But it did take away my icon choices, which disappointed me, because I miss the googly-eyes. My poor, deprived life. :)