I’ve been fiddling with this site for about a month and i am getting tired of writing dummy text and “Hello World” in order to check if things are working.
What is challenging about this domain is that it carries the same name i do. This adds pressure as this domain will greatly represent who i am, and I admit I’ve been proscratinating quite a bit.
So now is the time to start blogging on this spanking domain (yeah, it’s my name). To be dead honest, I’m uncertain of which direction these writings are going to take.
There are 4 options i had in mind:
1- Make it a very personal landing page
That would entail telling you about my family, my gorgeous son and fiancée, my dogs, my cat, my car… To be honest, I don’t think this would do for very good readership, and the nature of an online presence for a web designer is to appear professional at all times. I can’t really mix my day-to-day activities a la LOVE & MARIAGE with all the exciting stuff i am up to.
2- Make it my portfolio
While there are obvious advantages in having your portfolio under your name’s URL, this would be all to redundant. If you want to see my portfolio, you can go to Agency Zebra, which is the design studio i run since 2005.
3- Make it a design tutorial site
There is a lot I’ve learned over the years in various fields, to name just a few:
- photography
- webdesign
- flash
- flash banners
- usability in design
I could certainly write tutorials as i go along working on projects, but to make the purpose of this site to be another nettuts is a pointless exercise, and quite frankly, I don’t think I’ll do as good a job.
While i might from time to time share some tips, this either will not be the purpose of my personal landing site – i have a name to promote, and i don’t want to do it with screencasts !
4- Share my experiences in web design and the journey to being a successful entrepreneur
I think i’m very fortunate professionally and have what a lot of people dream of: my web design studio in Cape Town is on fire and i am weeks away form launching what i hope will become a successful online copyright management app.
I’ve always believed that you are what you do, so by talking about what i do, which challenges i face and which obstacles i conquer, I’m actually describing to you who i am as a person.
Which is perfectly fitting, given the URL !
