katherine (@kayserifserif@sunny.garden)
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katherine (@kayserifserif@sunny.garden)
Websites are the most expressive medium I know, but they’re used today in such a tiny narrow way.
The thing is, they could be like digital paper: back-of-napkin notes, moodboards, journaling, letters, toy apps, lists, sprawling canvases.
The thing is, they could be like digital paper: back-of-napkin notes, moodboards, journaling, letters, toy apps, lists, sprawling canvases.
Don’t think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. Online, you can become the person you really want to be. Fill your website with your work and your ideas and the stuff you care about.
Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
This is why websites are so important. They allow the author to create not only works (the “objects”) but also the world (the rooms, the arrangement of rooms, the architecture!). Ideally, the two would inform each other in a virtuous, self-perfecting loop. This can be incredibly nurturing to an artist’s practice.
Laurel Schwulst • My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
A Website Is A Room
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Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites
danilafe.comInitially, 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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Don'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.