A dose of my own medicine
I’ve been talking up the benefits of blogging for years now. And, while I’ve maintained a personal blog on MySpace, I have only talked about keeping one for professional promotion. Well, that changes today.
I’ve decided I’m going to spill the beans on everything I know about the business and techniques of Web development. I’m not going to start with a custom design for my blog, because I want to demonstrate how a website grows from nothing into something. I’ll take screen captures of this site as it moves through its evolution from the default WordPress theme into a branded online presence. Each time I update the site, I’ll post about it under “site evolution”.
My goal with this site is to create an information resource that is of value to other developers, curious people, and my clients with the hopes of promoting myself, making friends, and giving back to the community that first gave to me.
Enjoy!
[...] I started this blog in September of 2006 in the fashion I recommend to my clients, which is to grow a blog, not build one. I had a lot of ideas about how I wanted it to look and how to structure the content, but I also wanted to wait and see what content I was really going to develop regularly. Well, I’ve been maintaining this blog for a few months now and I’m about to release a custom theme. I’m really excited about it because I think a blogger needs a customized theme if he/she wants to be taken seriously. My current theme is a slightly modified version of K2. [...]
From Does custom theme = being taken seriously as a blogger? at Metafluence on January 9th, 2007 at 3:36 am
justin is amazing!
thanks for sharing all your ideas to help little peeps like me
rock on rockstar!
From ani on February 8th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
justin rocks
thanks for sharing your expertise and wisdom with little peeps like me
rock on rock star
From ani on February 8th, 2007 at 5:06 pm