06/02/2008 Entry: "sarcasm."
allow me to introduce the situation at hand...only this time, described outside of my normal "woeful-poet" dialect, because not everyone is fluent in the language of my written pity party.
sigh.
amazingly enough, the only way I feel at ease expressing myself is in the comfort of my own notebook. ironic, considering the harshest critic of any writer is themself. so my safe haven is a paradox of astronomical proportions.
it's not my intention to come across as some whiney, egotistical bitch. nor am I one to dissect my problems via blog for the sole purpose of gaining concern and sympathetic reasurrance from complete strangers. the day my blog is met with comments of commiseration and pity is the day i stop sharing my writing. my purpose for this blog, for this domain, is to find and communicate with other writers (and I'm incredibly fortunate for the ones who continue to push me, because it really does guilt trip me into writing these blogs) and to provide the reader with something along the lines of poetic or thought-provoking.
i think one of the main reasons that i've been neglecting my domain is because I have neither the skills nor the stamina necessary to keep up with the competitiveness of web design. which is fine by me, because as much respect as I have for those who can code and design websites; i completely despise it. so either barbiehead is going to be designed identical to the layout you see now, minus the image, just white on black, or someone's going to make me a layout and force me to use it. honestly, i'm just sick of looking at this damn setup. from complete strangers. the day my blog is met with comments of commiseration and pity is the day i stop sharing my writing. my purpose for this blog, for this domain, is to find and communicate with other writers (and I'm incredibly fortunate for the ones who continue to push me, because it really does guilt trip me into writing these blogs) and to provide the reader with something along the lines of poetic or thought-provoking.
i think one of the main reasons that i've been neglecting my domain is because I have neither the skills nor the stamina necessary to keep up with the competitiveness of web design. which is fine by me, because as much respect as I have for those who can code and design websites; i completely hate doing it. so either barbiehead is going to be solely text or someone's going to have to code and design a layout for me. and while i honestly wish i could say it's because I'm just too lazy to do it myself, the truth is..i'm just design illiterate.
Replies: 7 comments
Hey Rayne,
Glad to see you still got your piece of the web here. We used to be link exchangers and I've been visiting your site over the years.
Like yourself, I also was put up with the competitive sorta atmosphere having a website can make you feel overwhelmed with, so I fucked off and shut down my site and moved to livejournal.
Perhaps, you should consider sharing some words there, it'd be cool to keep up with you as much as I used to.
Posted by Erynn @ 08/29/2008 01:35 AM EST
I love this layout and I don't mind seeing it for the rest of my life, because I want to read what you write and not look at what you have to design, the purpose of the site is to read not see right? If it is eye candy it is a bonus. ;)
Posted by Anton @ 08/24/2008 06:31 PM EST
I think I'm starting to lose interest in web design too. I used to love making websites but now I just don't seem to have the energy.
I hope you'll be able to write more without having to worry about the design ;)
Posted by Fatima @ 07/02/2008 09:57 PM EST
Greetings from pre-Med, milk dud.
Posted by Pnut @ 06/29/2008 09:35 PM EST
Would you like some people in changing the site Rayne?
Wouldn't helping you.. I haven't spoke to you in forever though. Today's the first day in over a month I logged into deviant art and thought about you too :)
Posted by Reed @ 06/09/2008 02:31 AM EST
Rubbish I say! Haha I just wanted to say rubbish.
Any how, I wouldn't worry too much about design and whatnot. I always saw it as the people who had the prettiest sites didn't ususally have much worth reading. Just stuff about their daily lives, which can be interesting, but still.
You have words worth reading, ones that do inspire- which I speak firsthand about because I've written things just because I wanted you to read.
Either way I'm just really happy you have a place on the internet that I can visit you at.
And soon I shall bother you into writing more, specifically my little volleys. We have one that isn't finished, unless the last part from you accidently got deleted or something =/
Anyhow. Glad you wrote something and that you are writing more as a little birdie told me. Maybe I can bother you into sharing :o)
Posted by William @ 06/03/2008 10:44 PM EST
Hmm...I can design you a layout but you'll have to use Wordpress because I've gotten so accustomed to it that I can't code anything else but HTML Transitional 1.0. You know, the first HTML in existence. I must say, however, that the white text on black has got to go because I can barely read your text, darling. I think I'm getting old. Bleh.
<3
Posted by Holly @ 06/02/2008 10:33 AM EST
