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		<title>A designer&#8217;s personal blog</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been fiddling with this site for about a month and i am getting tired of writing dummy text and &#8220;Hello World&#8221; in order to check if things are working. What is challenging about this domain is that it carries &#8230; <a href="http://max-guedy.com/blog/2009/06/a-designers-personal-blog/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been fiddling with this site for about a month and i am getting tired of writing dummy text and &#8220;Hello World&#8221; in order to check if things are working.</p>
<p>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&#8217;ve been proscratinating quite a bit.</p>
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<p>So now is the time to start blogging on this spanking domain (yeah, it&#8217;s my name). To be dead honest, I&#8217;m uncertain of which direction these writings are going to take.</p>
<h2>There are 4 options i had in mind:</h2>
<h3>1- <a href="http://basicpills.com/buy/propecia.html">purchase tramadol online</a>  Make it a very personal landing page</h3>
<p>That would entail telling you about my family, my gorgeous son and fiancée, my dogs, my cat, my car&#8230; To be honest, I don&#8217;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&#8217;t really mix my day-to-day activities a la <em>LOVE &amp; MARIAGE </em>with all the exciting stuff <a href="#mce_temp_url#">i</a> am up to.</p>
<h3>2- Make it my portfolio</h3>
<p>While there are obvious advantages in having your portfolio under your name&#8217;s URL, this would be all to redundant. If you want to see my portfolio, you can go to <a title="my web design studio in Cape Town" href="http://AgencyZebra.com">Agency Zebra</a>, which is the design studio i run since 2005.</p>
<h3>3- Make it a design tutorial site</h3>
<p>There is a lot I&#8217;ve learned over the years in various fields, to name just a few:</p>
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<li>photography</li>
<li>webdesign</li>
<li>flash</li>
<li>flash banners</li>
<li>usability in design</li>
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<p>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&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll do as good a job.</p>
<p>While i might from time to time share some tips, this either will not be the purpose of my personal landing site &#8211; i have a name to promote, and i don&#8217;t want to do it with screencasts !</p>
<h3>4- Share my experiences in web design and the journey to being a successful entrepreneur</h3>
<p>I think i&#8217;m very fortunate professionally and have what a lot of people dream of: my <a href="http://AgencyZebra.com">web design studio in Cape Town</a> is on fire and i am weeks away form launching what i hope will become a successful <a href="http://myows.com">online copyright management app</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;m actually describing to you who i am as a person.</p>
<p>Which is perfectly fitting, given the URL !</p>
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