Monday (07/24/06)
A Happy 1st Year of Blogging 12:36 am
Today marks a successful first year of blogging here at elliotswan.com. I’ve had a lot of fun, learned a lot, and I’m definitely looking forward to its future. Some stuff that’s been accomplished in the last year:
- There have been 223 posts and 704 comments.
- It’s gone through two designs, the latest of which was featured on CSS Mania and placed 35th in 774 sites that redesigned for the CSS reboot, landing on the first page when ordered by descending score.
- For a few months was a member of a great little blog network, Random Shapes.
- Was accepted into the 4th round at 9rules. Details still pending.
- I met a lot of great people (and saw a couple of you for the first time at Webvisions last week).
- Had a heckuva lot of fun, and learned a lot.
Thanks to all my readers who have helped make this such a great experience, I couldn’t have done it without all of you. If you’ve been reading since the beginning, for a few months, a few weeks, or even just started today, why not drop a comment and say “hi”? Never a better time to introduce yourself than now.
And as for the next year, I’m sure it will be bigger and better than this last one. So, I’d like to take this opportunity to ask you folks, the readers: If you could see anything happen to or appear on this blog in the next year, what would that be? 
I eat food. I listen to music. I sleep. Sometimes. I drink lots of coffee. I make pretty pictures. I talk to people. I believe in things. I write stuff. I take photographs. I have a laughing addiction. I am human. 
Congrats on the anniversary!
Congratulations Elliot. Keep up the good work! Cheers for another grand year.
congrats
Thanks.
I find it funny that the one post in which I ask people to drop a note and say “hi,” the majority of my readers (i.e., everybody except you folks) ignore.
I guess I shouldn’t do that next time.
Keep up the awesome work, mate! Looking forward to seeing what the next year holds for you — I’m sure it’ll be awesome!
I’m a relative web newbie (surfed for years, blogged for weeks) and am still getting the hang of XHTML, and CSS is as yet beyond me. (Give me time.) If you aimed your tutorials just a tad downward on the evolutionary scale, I could understand them better. Then again, I’m probably not the audience you’re aiming for.
I’m not the guy that should be responding to Anne, but here I go! As a tech writer, it’s a constant struggle to communicate ideas that I understand very well to someone who doesn’t. And while there does need to be some base level of understanding at some point, I’d second Anne’s call to always go simpler. It’s a worthwhile undertaking, because there are far fewer people turned off by articles that are too simple than those that can’t yet wrap their brain around the concepts.
An added benefit, and this is a bit of a cliche of teaching: when you get down to the very basics of what you’re talking about, you often gain a better understanding of it yourself.
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