Our Fugly Adolescence
Hey kiddo, turn off the TV for a sec, ‘kay? We want to have a talk.
Sometime between the ages of two and three months, a blog will change dramatically. This time is called puberty, and all blogs go through it, although each blog grows and changes at its own pace. When it happens, your blog may become larger, more frequently updated, Photoshopped to within an inch of its life, and kinda awkward. Your blog may feel full of energy or lie around and sleep a lot. Your moods may shift uncontrollably, surprising you and blogs around you.
OK, it’s dead. But seriously, we’re renovating around here, and we want to beg for help make a couple notes.
- Ads! Lookit them shiny ads, perched around the site like watchful angels, waiting to shower us with Cost Per Click revenue. IvySport led the way, and now Amazon promises to keep you knee-deep in poorly sourced, navel-gazing gossip clear on through the semester.
- Code! Lookit that crappy code, and our garish design. Got HTML, PHP, Movable Type, or general design experience? Help us, if for no other reason than to save your classmates’ retinas.
- Spend! Seriously. You can buy all your textbooks and video-gamery at Amazon by entering the site via links on our pages. That is, if you’re going to drop your parents’ money there anyway, you might as well throw a buck or two in commission our way. We’ll think of you as we sing duets about lighting our tenement neighbor’s candle.
And most important, thanks for keeping the comments section robust. You are truly underchallenged. Adelante!
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September 17th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
It wouldn’t kill you to “optimize for web” your photos in photoshop, either, as right now your website is a bandwidth whore. The main page clocks in at 589 kb. Seriously.
Movable Type is so passé.