Llama and Lamb

I’m considering a revamp of the poetry knook. Why? I’m not sure. I would like to re-design all my sites eventually. Even though there are kids going to sleep hungry around the world, I have learned so much and reformatted a few blogs into corporate news sections and it is annoying to give someone else a well-designed site and not have one yourself.

Questions to answer:

• Should the posts solely be the work?

• Even though I will use “blogging software” as the content management, there’s not reason to follow a blog format of discussing the tuna melt I had today. What of poetry related topics? Inspiration? Should there be any prose posts?

• Do I feed the poems published into my personal blog?

• Do I combine all my feeds into one blog? People interested in poetry are probably not interested in the Adobe Flash tutorials of my media production blog, DesignWell, but many people who subscribe to this personal blog would be interested in my poetry.

• How much “personality spanning” should surround the work?

• Blogger and Typepad are the GeoCities of the 90’s (yes, you could include social networking sites like FaceBook and MySpace, but their purpose is personality spanning). If you want to be taken seriously, do you want pictures of your dog on your site via a Flickr PhotoStream? Shoe-horning WordPress into pre-existing static corporate sites has caused me to realize how unnecessary peripheral data is. I cringe at the length of blogrolls that extend beyond the browser window. I hesitated placing our photographs on this personal blog for this reason. There is a glut of links in most sidebars. Do I really need to a direct link to the five archived posts from September 2002? The defining difference between FaceBook and MySpace is organization and design–which I happen to do for a living.

• How much meta information should be shown with a poem?

• There is a reason there is not a comment form after every blog post. How necessary is the date? How necessary are categories listed after every post? The list goes on? In the area of open-source and a plethora of plug-ins, just because you can do something doesn’t mean it should do it.

How do you believe this site should be organized?

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