Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Monday, August 23, 2004 The Pitch: It's like The Gift of the Magi meets Hackers! One of the nice things about moving lazybastard to a new server is I get to see my visitors and what they're hitting with a little more clarity. These stats allow me to begin formulating future plans for the site--and also afford me many opportunities for humility. After all, I also do the same thing for the CE website, so I'm well aware that my unique visitors for the month is approx 1,323 compared to over fifteen thousand for the Comix Experience website.A couple years back, when I first got dreamweaver, I took a few tutorials and messed around with the program a bit. One of the the things that interested me at the time was building multi-column pages with text, pictures and captions. To that end, I created a test page, using "slices" or "layers" or whatever Dreamweaver was trumpeting as its big hullaballoo. I threw some images on there, almost at random, created text to fill the column, then threw it on the web to see how it looked. As I recall, the layers looked fine on IE, not so good on Netscape. And for the amount of time, it took to put together, I decided it wasn't worth it. I abandoned the whole thing, went for a more simple single column centered approach, and forgot all about it. So guess what single page gets the most hits on my website? It's because of the naked picture of Stevie Case, of course. But I gotta tell ya: when I opened that page this morning, for the first time in forever, I went, hey, that looks okay. And there's a cheap laugh or two in the text. I'm glad I spent so long fiddling with the caption and header colors because there's a certain unified look to the whole thing. It's far from perfect, and as I recall it took an obscene amount of fiddling to get the layers to line up, and--like I said--I know it gets the most hits because it's got boobies on the page. The only thing more ironic than this test page getting the most hits is the irony that I'm pondering how to approach a possible site re-design because of it. posted by Jeff Lester | 8:48 AM | |
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