I was thinking of coming up with a logo for this site. Some kind of play on my initials or maybe a photoshopped banner of my head, something that sets this site as being about me, but then it dawned on me, I am the brand I don’t think this site would be helped by any kind of logo. You would have to be a bit silly to wonder what this site is about. From the URL, to the favicon, to the use of my little face in most posts, the purpose of this site should be apparent without a logo. Part of me still wants one, since it would be fun to create one, but I think it would just add clutter.

So I am marking it off my to do list and moving on. I am also giving up on the video for now. It’s just too difficult to make sure it shows up consistently across browsers. I wouldn’t mind so much if it was only IE for the PC, but it fails in Firefox as well. I will eventually come back to this, but for now, I am fine without. So I am nearly ready to move on.

I moved the two video posts I’ve already done far into the future, so they shouldn’t show up for another year or until I figure out the layout.

Today I go over my main template one last time, and start to put it across the site. Should be fun. (I know, I have a sick idea of fun.)

I decided to revisit this post, to update what there’s left to do, and to go over what all has been done. I know I’ve mentioned this a few times, but I really need the main page hammered out to near perfection before I worry about the other pages on this site. It’s getting closer. Each of the boxed side elements are almost all templated now, so if I want to make changes it will be much easier. I have also made some of them dynamic, so you get different content on each page load. This will reduce the number of page impressions certain things like ads and links to my digital chapbooks get, but it also makes the margins less cluttered. A good thing if you ask me.

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I firmly believe in the saying “A fool and his money are soon parted.” I know this is true because I go through a lot of cash.

You probably have notice my little this space for rent banners. I hold little hope of actually selling that space, but put them there for two reasons. One, I want those panels to have content for future growth (and I want to get this template finished so I can propagate it to my other pages), and two, I have a site I plan on launching in October that will most definitely have ads. I just want to start trying to figure out the best way to make them work now. Oh, and if I can actually sell one, well, then this fool gets a little more money to part with.

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I visit Amazon’s website quite a bit. I have been selling items there for about four months. I have an associates’  account, and I like shopping there. All in all I spend too much time on that site.

Used to be that I haunted real physical bookstores. Hell, I even worked in a couple. Now, I find that booksellers don’t know their product and stores seldom carry what I want. It’s just become easier to log onto Amazon and check out what it recommends based off what I have reviewed or bought. It’s fairly accurate and I like the customer reviews. More often than not I trust them more than professional reviews.

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Seems like you can have a perfect pool or bowl of Cheerios and someone’s always got to come along and piss in it. Last night I get an email notification that someone had left comments on this site in my galleries, so I logged in to see what was said. I was left wondering why this person even bothered. The comments weren’t going to get to stay up there. I removed them and set the requirements for commenting to members only. I figure only my friends are going to care about pictures of my friends anyway.

A lot of sites I respect don’t allow comments, since the vast majority of them are poorly written and usually asinine. On my first journal I stopped writing because of the comments that were left by one unknown person. My second I decided to not even bother with them. Usually they are too difficult to monitor and keep spam free to be worth it.

I’m not going to say what was said, other than I am pretty sure I know who left it, and if this person had even the smallest amount of courage the email address would have been valid. As it is, I do have the IP of the computer used to leave the comment, and it wouldn’t be that hard to track this person down, but I’m not going to bother. I just may join those other sites that don’t allow comments.