Hi. I am trying to decide what to do on what I should blog about, how to go about it and what new way to present older ideas. Analytical Rambling is a category where I will be rambling on about things that come to mind and hopefully gain something from it.
Begin Rambling:
I have never written a blog post that is suppose to be constructive. I have written posts on my other site, but those are quick 1 paragraph updates about something I’m doing and not really serving a purpose such as critically analyzing a topic or a thought. I was brainstorming the first topics to start writing about and then got into naming categories.
I then started thinking about how I write. In school I always used too many words to get my point across. I could never get my point across with one sentence it had to be 3 or 4 and it alaways seemed convoluted but if I read it, it would make perfect sense to me. Now that I plan on putting my head back into writing again I realized that my style (or lack there of) of writing is not going to work in the age of immediate satisfaction, skimming, multi-tasking readers. I need to break the complexity of my mind down to simplicity.
I began searching the types of posts/articles. For me they can be broken down into the number lists, a tutorial and a personal perspective (which you can label this post under, sort of.)
Number Lists:
I personally like the number lists of wallpapers, tools, showcases, top tips and others type of posts. They keep you up to date with current trends, help you learn new techniques, and reminds oneself that you need to learn more. It does get redundant after awhile, I started noticing that I wasn’t really reading the top paragraph and just skipping through to the images or the main headers, I guess that is what lists promote anyway to get a hit on the page, and hopefully the reader will see another post that interests them.
I see myself not really writing these types of posts because I’m not a tester of new things specifically programs/tools. I wouldn’t mind doing some lists but I want to list something new or different in the web designer community, but that I must brainstorm myself.
Tutorials:
If it weren’t for tutorials I would not know as much as I do especially themeing for wordpress thanks to wpdesigner. Some are poorly written and some just get absorbed so naturally that you wished you can hit those types of tutorials all the time. Tutorials also show you new ways of working that you may have never thought of. We all have habits we pick up albeit coding a certain way, having a different work flow, or using a certain technique in photoshop and just seeing a new way of doing something you normally do can be productive and more effective.
I see myself trying to write a tutorial but wondering if I will finish it because you go through so many as a reader you start to wonder if it is really necessary. Then when I sit back and think about it, it will always be different because I handle my coding, my themeing, my workflow and the way I work in photoshop differently from the next person.
Personal Perspective:
The type of posts that fall under this categories are designer stories about bad clients, or how the writer handled a situation when in a crunch or how they had to do some hardcore self-promoting to get new clients.
When I first started learning through tutorials and skimming through number lists trying to see ways to improve myself and gain some experience from other designers I always ignored these types of posts. I never felt I can relate to them because I haven’t been through their situations. After a few years of designing, I find myself gravitating towards these types of articles nowadays. They seem to have more value to me now, and I wished I was interested in them when I first started off because they are more beneficial to keeping a cool head and being prepared for situations you never thought you could be in.
I see myself writing these, thats it heh.
Overall:
What ties all of these articles together is that you are helping someone learn from your experience. As people we are unique to one another but still in many ways connected and as “internet citizens” we are accustom to skimming through articles, doing something whilst reading a article and always on the go so I must learn to keep my sentences simple, and get my point across more quickly.
Did I get my point across? Excuse my rambling.
DISCLAIMER: In the end, I must include to no avail. I am not a writer (professional at that) I do not like writing. I write these because someones bound to have similar thoughts and some coding problems as me.
Thanks for reading, now read something else that will benefit you. Uncanny Smiley Face.
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