Just signed up for Webvisions last night, it’s gonna be awesome (and in Portland, to boot). If you’ve been thinking about going, now’s the time to sign up–today is the last day for the early bird discount (and students get even more off). I’ve been looking through the schedule and here’s what is lookin’ good to me at the moment:
As I mentioned today on my other blog, I’ve been helping a couple different people start up their own blogs. But it seems that as soon as one gets their own blog, they’re almost always thinking about one thing: Building readership.
A few months ago I started a thread over at SitePoint asking opinions on what majors people felt were the most helpful in graphic design and web development careers. I got well over one hundred responses with suggestions ranging from general arts to business to skipping college all together. I heavily thought upon all of this and after much consideration have decided to go with none of these suggestions.
As I’ve been designing and developing my reboot, I’ve fallen in love with a few new things. Allow me to introduce them to you:
I absolutely hate having to switch all the “< " and ">” signs in my code to “<” and “>”, respectively. I also hate having to write “&” anytime I want to include an ampersand. This makes including code snippets on my blog and whatnot extremely annoying, and today I finally got fed up.
As I mentioned a few days ago, I switched hosts. I told you I’d give you some more information on that, so here goes.
Like the title suggests and like so many other people are doing, I switched to Dreamhost, and it’s hard to believe everybody isn’t switching.
You may have noticed this past week that there’s been a slight change in the way discussions work on here. If you have never had a comment approved on here before, then I will have to moderate it. If I’ve approved a comment of yours in the past, then it’ll go through automatically. So basically, not much is changing for any regulars. But for you spammers…back off.
Yeah, I jumped the bandwagon and will be launching the new elliotswan.com on May 1st with the rest of the CSS Rebooters.
I figure hope this will give me 1) enough time to make sure the design I’ve been working on is perfect before launch, and 2) give me a reason to finish it.
If I’m really focused lucky maybe I’ll even have my new portfolio up in time for the Reboot.
The reason I haven’t been posting as much isn’t because I’m ignoring you guys, it’s because I’ve been having trouble thinking of worthwhile things to write about. I’ve been posting tons of snippits for you guys, so hopefully you’ve been enjoying that. But as for longer posts…I’m out of ideas.
So help me out. What would you like to read about? And how do you find post ideas?
Update: I won, so thanks to all who may have voted. 
If you’re looking to buy any sweet shirts, definitely check out the PanicFactor.
You may remember the What’s Your Factor contest I blogged about a little while ago…Well voting is up, and you can vote once every 24 hours. If you’d like to help a blogger out, mine’s the “PanicFactor” one (it’ll also say my name underneath it)….
Hey there, I’m Elliot. I'm co-founder of DuroCast and do freelance web work. My side projects include Postable, WorthWorkingFor, TweetRemote, Accidental Procrastination, FlipFor.Us, ShootYourselfWith.Us, StalkMy[dot]Com, Shweetness, and Man of Pink. Some of these places actually exist, and some I wish existed.
