I was working on web layout, shooting for a new look, a new feel, a fresh design. Doing this when Mercury is Retrograde has certain limitations — like it took three, four, even five tries to get some piece of software to work right, or to get the right button to roll over correctly. I redid this page several times, mauve, pink, blue, but it keeps winding up boring old black. I’ll try white for another day.
As I went on a web walk to steal ideas, I came across some interesting stats here. Which don’t add up with what I saw here. The question is what’s too much information, and what’s the best way to get all the stuff on this site available? White or black background?
Musical selection: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D Minor. “Choke on this, you Danceteria types!” [Something from the Dead Milkmen to balance the classics.]
The other point in web design I’ve never been able to figure out is about the update thing. I made an executive decision (sounds funny when I’m not wearing any long pants), and I opted for a single page layout for the scopes themselves. That creates two files to upload on Monday mornings, not thirteen or fourteen, one to the archive, one to the index.
Then, on this journal, I could never figure out why folks would do pour so much effort in a single day’s entry, making it look all nice, not when I have to face the same problem with archive and retrieval architecture The solution? More books about design and theory? Wonder where the new name is from? Strange story, there.
One other interesting link I stumbled across had to do with web publishing and macro as well as micro content. See: the scopes I write are currently running over 2,000 words per week. Or, it looks like about 200 words per sign. Compare that to the 12 to 15 words you get in a daily scope, or the alternative newspaper scopes that run about 75 words per sign.
The web allows for a brand of publishing where the size doesn’t matter, bigger is better.
- Aperture: ƒ/1.8
- Camera: iPad Pro (11-inch)
- Flash fired: no
- Focal length: 3mm
- ISO: 64
- Shutter speed: 1/60s
