A few people have asked
A few people have asked about my observation the other day that I'd like this blog to be an element of a wider site, rather than all the other bits and pieces here hanging off the blog. Which seems a good cue to discuss where I'm going with it.
Basically, one of the things that having the blog did was get me back into having a site of my own. I used to have one years ago, but it was embarassing, had a starfield background (Hey! They all had them back then....) and was built in HoTMetaL. Obviously, it had to go. BUT.....despite its rather primitive look, that site at least had the advantage of not having a blog to keep drawing in the crowds (*snort*), so I had to make it do *something*. The something that I settled on was that it would be a home for my critical writing. I'd been lacking an outlet for that kind of thing since I stopped doing stuff regularly on the BBC, and even if I was only doing it for myself, it would at least be something I could point to as a body of work.
Now, I have a site that has some critical stuff on it, but it's clearly seen as secondary to the blog - the design does that for it, relegating the reviews to the same level as external links. Of course, I also have the dilemma that based on the way the traffic here goes, the blog is far and away the part of the site that people most want to look at. Most people never look any further. So at the moment I'm working on a redesign that keeps the blog on the 'homepage' of the domain name, but which has other defined sections of the site, index pages for the opinion pieces, etc. It's a fudge, to say the least, but from my own point of view, I'd like *not* to be seen as just another Weblogger, but as someone who does a number of things online, one of which is a journal. Probably a vain hope.
By the time the weekend comes, I may think something different. Any thoughts, observations, comments, welcome as ever.