I’m Back!
After almost five days of errors when trying to get to my WP admin, I’m back online. It feels good!
I’ve been very lazy lately - finding online games to fill my time instead of jobs. One job in particular, however, is currently teaching me what I consider a few very valuable lessons.
- If I can’t do the job by myself, and I can’t take the time to learn what I need to be able to do it myself, don’t take on a partner. I get stressed out enough just trying to keep myself on schedule. It’s much worse when I’m waiting on someone else, no matter how reasonable the delay is.
- Overbudget when proposing time frames. I read somewhere that you should tack on like 20% after you have the project length, then tack on another 20% when nobody’s looking. I should have done that - then I wouldn’t be feeling as guilty.
- I’m not so sure web design for businesses is really what I want to be doing right now. I much prefer designing for myself, and designing templates. I’m especially fascinated with things like Theme Forest, and I think I’m ready to get my Wordpress and proper web coding chops up to snuff.
At any rate, life will be very busy for the next couple of days - I’ve got a memory training workshop through Personal Freedom for the next two days, and a party tomorrow evening.
Filed under Internet | Comment (0)Small Change, Big Difference
David Airey showed us how a small change can make a real difference. All he did was switch his headers out, removing the clouds and adding simple orange. It’s more elegant, more professional (however I don’t feel that his past layout was unprofessional by any means), and simple is wonderful.
I chose my layout for simplicity this time around as well. Unfortunatley, I’m still living in borrowed digs. I hope by the fall I will have a chance to create my first WordPress layout.
Filed under Internet | Comment (0)Information Overload!
I am officially overloaded! Here is what has me so verklempt:
I read a post at The Real Estate Tomato about Twitter called People Really Do Want You to Tweet About Your Cat. It mentioned this foreign concept called Whuffies, which is a reputation-based currency in Cory Doctorow’s novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Now it’s a good novel in itself, and worth the read. But the whole concept has me rethinking my attitude on self-publication online. Maybe it’s not something I want to get into by myself, but maybe like Seth Godin, I would rather people read my books than buy them.
And then the previously mentioned post got me to rediscover my Twitter account, and now I’m trying to keep up with that, along with several other online tools that I’ve read about from the Real Estate Connect San Francisco Conference 2008 (it seems that my entire RSS Feed attended). MyBlogLog is slow in getting started, and may not even be for me, but I’m trying to give that some attention as well.
I’ve made more progress with the SEO aspect of my latest job, but haven’t been able to work on another job at all, yet. That isn’t only frustrating, but panicking.
And to top it all off, I have three marketing books at home, and I was just distracted long enough to buy two more off of Amazon - one about real estate, and one about web sites. I can’t wait - and yet, when am I going to be able to make the time to read them?
It’s this amazing mix of excitement, horror and anticipation. Wow.
Did I mention my feed has 78 unread items?
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