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On Design of this Site and other Thoughts
Around Christmas time, I started to think about the visual and conceptual design of this site, as it has gotten too cluttered from my personal tastes, besides the redesign itch had hit.
I have been thinking about moving towards a layout where there would be one big photo, a set of thumbnails of the last 5 photos, and exerpts of text. But I realized that not only has that been done and I don't really like it on other sites, but that I like the long blog-form of one column of chronological posts. I like seeing the last two plus weeks of posts all willy nilly next to each other, from my cameraphone photos, to text posts, to others. But the cameraphone posts had gotten out of control and very little text, and thus ideas, are seen.
I am the woman who loves Ab Ex and Color Field paintings ( esp. Sam Francis, Mark Rothko, & Helen Frankenthaler), as well as Minimalism.
After much thought, as well as discussing with others, I have decided to only post a photo or two a day from my cameraphone here and the rest of the output will go to my flickr account. I also promised myself that I would write more often, as I am interested in the intersection of text and image, not just image all the time. Rather than a redesign, less cluttered content, and more integration of image and text.
My next step is to de-clutter the right hand links sidebar. I have been trying to find a standards compliant DOM script link toggle so that the site visitor would see the headlines and when you rollover the headline, the links would come down.
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