Michael S. Pascua The Life of a Freelancer

Such a beautiful day for an error.

I’m having website meltdown. At the moment I hate HTML. I really do. HTML, CSS, Javascript. Everything. Why can’t websites be drawn on a piece of paper, scanned, and then mysteriously just work the way you wanted? Of course I have to struggle my way around with my small web bag of tricks, trying to make this webpage as effective as possible.

It’s pretty, but not exactly everything I wished for, you know? Sometimes the image in my head doesn’t match the drawing on the picture.

Anywho, I realized that one thing that websites are supposed to do is increase the length of time one person is on it for a while. How is a personal website supposed to do that? I’m not going to offer games, contests, or giveaways. That’s not my style and I’ve heard from other webmasters that giveaways aren’t as helpful to increasing readership. It causes a spike then disappears again. Moot. That’s what it is.

Back to the question: how do I not jump the shark? I can’t do things like hype other people, mostly because I have no writer friends (*hint* let’s be friends! *hint*). I would have a link page if a) I would admit that most are Disney links and b) I give away where some of my writing inspiration comes from. Yes, I’ll add more photos, but the problem lies in the fact that I actually have to reduce the size of the photos and it’s a bitch I tell you.

I used to have a bookmark tab of other writers/journalists/mothers with computers that I really liked and mysteriously all of them disappeared. I will check my main computer (I’m situated in my backyard between two large citronella candles trying to keep every bug away from me) later on. Anywho, their pages were a combination of concise and yet I wandered their page for a good 15 minutes. Here? Not so much. I can go through it in five, but mostly because it’s actually very content thin.

I get it: I’ll work on this page. I guess it’s an ever evolving thing.