it’s been brought to my attention that i haven’t been blogging as much as usual over the past couple days.
to make it to the top of the google rankings, i’ve learned that writing and having good content and plenty of it is key. sure your keywords, pagination and content relevancy to your keywords play a big role, but they are nothing without good, quality content.
having 90+ entries during the first month of launch is pretty impressive in the blogging world, especially since i’m a pretty busy guy. and yes i do have a life. but i have lots of information and resources that i really want to get out there. and i can type 98wpm with no errors (except for $ and “). and i’m sure i will be sneaking up on the bigger and more popular blogs and hit them from behind out of nowhere. but i don’t plan to do it anytime soon. it’s going to take a year or two of keeping up my style to create a loud sound in the industry.
but i had no chance to contribute to that buildup over the past few days. i’ve just been so busy with school and work, especially for my multi-user authoring class and my senior project studio class. it’s not the classes themselves, but the projects i’ve developed for each course.
one reason is explained pretty much here. the design took a lot longer than i thought and at first and i’ll admit i had some regrets when i started drafting up my layout. that usually doesn’t happen to me ever. but i managed to convince myself that once i get the other elements and typography in, it should be fine. and although i’m still constantly refining the design and the way it’ll function and animate, i’m pretty stoked on getting the thing running…especially once i get my phidgets on there.
the other reason is because i’ve been procrastinating too much on my territory hub project, and it’s due in like 2 weeks. i have probably about 4-5 weeks worth of databasing and php to do on the project, not including my testing. but it’s nothing too complicated for me. i’m just lazy when it comes to databases.
now what excites me about the territory hub is that it’s marketing potential is huge and was made obvious to me when others expressed interest in setting up their own territory hubs in other areas of california. it’s not that a form writing data to a database and being able to sort that data is unique or anything, it’s just the concept and how much more efficient it is than just writing data to an excel file.
ok so it isn’t super unique and it’s as basic of an online application as it gets, but it’s my first official online application and that’s good enough for me. screens for the hub below. screens for the multi-user authoring project soon.
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haha Sorry! I was gonna put a warning, but I didn’t figure anyone would care. ;X