katherine (@kayserifserif@sunny.garden)
My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
Laurel Schwulstthecreativeindependent.comKwon.nyc
kwon.nycDon't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine...Fill your website with your work with your ideas and the stuff you care about. Don't let it fall into neglect. Think about it in the long term. Stick with it, maintain it, and let it change you over time.
My favorite aspect of websites is their duality: they’re both subject and object at once. In other words, a website creator becomes both author and architect simultaneously. There are endless possibilities as to what a website could be. What kind of room is a website? Or is a website more like a house? A boat? A cloud? A garden? A puddle? Whatever ... See more
Laurel Schwulst • My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
Initially, I tried to do this using a website builder, but they all had constrictive templates and really wanted you to understand that a website is a business . Every builder I tried had a 'backoffice' with analytics and stats displayed prominently. I didn't want to run a business, I wanted to live a happy cyberlife, and it gets stressful when tho... See more
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Websites are living, temporal spaces.
Laurel Schwulst • My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
Sometimes you don’t want a website that you’ll have to maintain. You have other things to do. Why not consider your website a beautiful rock with a unique shape which you spent hours finding, only to throw it into the water until it hits the ocean floor? You will never know when it hits the floor, and you won’t care.