Thursday, 14 August, 1997 11:12
This is nilknarf's new format. I hope that it will prove to be easier to look at and easier to locate what you want to see. The current journal entry will be right out here in the open, and yesterday's journal and the rest of the old entries will be in the archives.
During my Crit Week I learned many things. One of them is that I have no sense of what makes one color look good with, or next to, another color. This is a major disappointment. I am no longer allowed to dress myself, Karen must lay out each day's clothes for me. This is the way that she always wanted it to be, but I have only now accepted the truth of the matter.
I will no longer be allowed to help Lacee with her coloring books. O'well, she was beginning to catch on, anyway.
Graphics: I can still put pictures on this page. My pix were not uniformly disliked. I'm quite happy about this fact, even though I do not often use pictures, I like to have that ability.
For those of you who think that I'm taking this critique too seriously, let me reassure you. I have been unhappy with the way my pages look for a long time, but I needed some direction. I got that direction, and I am happy about it. There are some things that I do not have the natural ability to do, and I am going to steer clear of those things. This was very good advice, I believe.
The one thing that was rather universally liked
Almost everyone likes the little asides (like this: I stole the idea from another journaller, of course!) and everyone liked the sidebars. (same deal:thievery.)
So... what I am now going to concentrate on is content. I am going to leave the fancy HTML and the pretty grafix to the people that can do that well, and there are many of them who can. Excellent examples all over Open Pages.
Another thing that I am going to work on and simplify, at a later date, are the archives. Right now, I haven't changed them any. I'm going to get a consistent design (consistent with the main page) and revise them all. Big job. It will happen later.
Well, only a little later. My ISP is down, so I decided to do that now... Go See! Once again, comments/criticisms are appreciated!
A note that I sent to Al Schroeder this afternoon...
And now... the current journal entry...
I got up this morning at 09:30 with a vision: fix this journal. Something jelled while I was sleeping, because I like the new look. If you don't, or have any comments, let me know!
And, more than anything else...
was the content of this journal, with some exceptions. The exceptions first: not enough detail. Too linear: too much "what I did, what I am going to do", not enough about what I'm thinking. I think that this is a fair criticism: I make assumptions about what people know about me. I assume that everyone knows that when I am fishing, I am in a consistently euphoric state: I can concentrate on being out on the water, how perfect the day is for fishing (and they are all perfect days for fishing!) and how beautiful life in general is. I need to state this occasionally for my readers.
Everyone likes the little sidebars, and so do I!
HiYa Al!
I'm going to discontinue the god-countergod thing.
I just seem to be losing interest.
I'm reading a couple of books that are not changing my mind, but rather my
attitude, about what people believe and why. You are probably familiar with
them: Treatise on the Gods by HL Mencken and True believer.
I would be interested in doing it again later, after I've got some things
figgered out!
It's been fun!
Thanx for being here...
I worked last night at MedAssist, and we were pretty busy. I was working with a new nurse but we were too rushed to really visit. We did get out on time, however. I did not get but two hours of nap in yesterday afternoon, so I was right tired. I went to bed at 22:00 after talking with Karen and checking my mail.