I’ve been meaning to revive this blog for some time. At one point I found it essential for tracking the progress I was making in web design, the problems I was having with coding, content management systems, hosting and other related things. I don’t have a “readership” and I really don’t want one. This blog was for me, to track my progress, albeit publicly.
However, blogging is hard work. It’s a hard habit to maintain. I sometimes rail against this idea that everything must be tracked in some way. In some ways I think that all that really matters is the experience; who really cares about my work, the work that will eventually fade into eternity like my memories and my bones. (This kind of thinking keeps me far away from Twitter at times.)
Yet I’ve enjoyed the conversations I’ve had here with people. I know some have found a few of my posts helpful. I’ve even used my own posts to help me remember some technical issue I’ve solved but long since forgotten how. In the end, I believe the effort is worth it. I think that one of the most valuable things a budding web designer/coder can do is keep a blog…a living diary of creative attempts, gray hairs, and successes to enjoy and learn from. Maybe you will even help someone else out along way.
I’m making this post in honor of the students in the summer session of my XHTML class…as some of them said in the intro forum: maintaining a blog is hard work. Well, that class is hard work! Hard, but worth it. 
Learning from the students
I’ve been meaning to revive this blog for some time. At one point I found it essential for tracking the progress I was making in web design, the problems I was having with coding, content management systems, hosting and other related things. I don’t have a “readership” and I really don’t want one. This blog was for me, to track my progress, albeit publicly.
However, blogging is hard work. It’s a hard habit to maintain. I sometimes rail against this idea that everything must be tracked in some way. In some ways I think that all that really matters is the experience; who really cares about my work, the work that will eventually fade into eternity like my memories and my bones. (This kind of thinking keeps me far away from Twitter at times.)
Yet I’ve enjoyed the conversations I’ve had here with people. I know some have found a few of my posts helpful. I’ve even used my own posts to help me remember some technical issue I’ve solved but long since forgotten how. In the end, I believe the effort is worth it. I think that one of the most valuable things a budding web designer/coder can do is keep a blog…a living diary of creative attempts, gray hairs, and successes to enjoy and learn from. Maybe you will even help someone else out along way.
I’m making this post in honor of the students in the summer session of my XHTML class…as some of them said in the intro forum: maintaining a blog is hard work. Well, that class is hard work! Hard, but worth it.