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Sunday, August 14, 2005
Don't be surprised when we destroy all of it. | Thanks to those of you who commented on my last post. I really appreciate the kind words.
I feel a lot better, in terms of the subject of that post. Sometimes (often), I don't give myself nearly enough credit. I think I just realized that I'm a lot better off this way. I'm not exactly happy about it, but I feel as though I've really lost nothing, which is good.
Anyway, I've been thinking about the domain thing a little more and I think I may just go with Anabiosis.com. I think the meaning of the word really works, in its various applications and it's something that really speaks to me personally.
This means that I may arrange sub-domains for various hosted sites. For example, the QKT site might be something like "qkt.anabiosis.com". I have considered giving QKT its own domain, but we'll see. It would be cool, but I doubt the site will be very large, so it may not be worthwhile. At the very least, having a place on the web that isn't Geocities or something is probably a good thing. And if that domain were to be used, it'd be short and sweet.
I know that a lot of people are creating domains and putting blogs on there, for their primary site. I think that I will continue to maintain a blog here, mostly because I am keen to continue to show people what can be done with myOtaku (especially the minimalized and more flexible V3 format). I doubt that I will have a second blog or anything like that, but I may have a news system or something similar, which relates to current and future projects.
The aim of the site would primarily be as a portfolio, I guess. But it would be useful because I could use that single location to host various smaller sites (particularly QKT at the moment). There are a few other little things that I'm interested in working on in the future and it would definitely be good to put them under an umbrella of some sort.
The big question, of course, is how to design a site like that. I mean, if it's your portfolio site, I guess you really want it to reflect you in every sense. Although my work probably tends to have a general feel about it, there's actually been a lot of variety over the years. So, it would be very hard for me to come up with some single design that represents me. Right now that's probably my biggest dilemma. I have worked on a lot of stuff that I still have here on my computer, but none of it has seen the light of day. In one way or another, the designs on here seem to reflect one thing or another...they aren't generally representative of my overall self.
I'm not sure if others have had this problem with their sites, but I find that it makes me jump back and forth between ideas, with an inability to settle on one thing. Oh well. I'm sure I'll get there eventually.
Now most of my work on myOtaku is complete. At least, the big things are. I'll be going in and adding more graphics and touching up things as we go along, but I'm a little more free now to start thinking about my own new site. Putting it together should be fun, despite my indecision.
Also, Justin and I are going to be doing work together through the Velegant label (freelance site design stuff). So, I will also have to find the time to actually build a Velegant design web site. I expect that it will be a hub through which we'll sell our work, but both of us will have our own individual sites. I think Justin is keen on the idea of having his own portfolio site and it's possible that I'll be helping him build that.
So even when myOtaku is totally knocked over, there's a lot more to do! More additions/changes at OB and some nifty changes to theOtaku.com, as well.
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