Aren't blogs for bitchy goth-kids?

I'm testing out DashBlog on 10.3 thanks to Amnesty, a program that allows dashboard widgets to run in Panther.

My real website is finally limping along at a steady pace. Much more to come, so check it often for improvements.

HipsterFag

If you just want to check out the obscene and pointless things I bookmark, head on over to my del.icio.us page.

del.icio.us/fattymembrane

I don't know what I'll do with this space, but I'm sure I can find a use.

That's right, the blogger feed will no longer be used for the news section of my website, as I've written my own system. The RSS feed barely works right now, but it should improve very soon. The new feed is http://hipsterfag.com/rss.php

Come on, you know you want to, just write something profane in the community section. I'll bring over chocolate chip cookies...

p.s. nice can

Ok, there's now stuff in the "about" section of the site. This week is pretty busy, so I probably won't make too many updates (if any at all) until next week. Pretty soon, I should have the wiki set up to be much more useful and perhaps even have the beginnings of my own CMS in place. In checking the visitor stats, I saw that there were actually a few people visiting my site. At first glance, I would assume it was just J.J., Marie, or Joann, but the browser ident strings told a different story. Whoever you are out there, I'm glad you've stopped by. Come by again and maybe I'll have something to show you, or just subscribe to one of the RSS feeds in the "about" section and you won't have to bother checking up on the site every day.

I finally bit the bullet and bought myself some web-space and a domain name. A Small Orange offers probably the best deal I've ever seen on hosting, so I couldn't pass it up. Initially, I'm just going to move this page over there, but in the future, I plan on making an entirely new site and perhaps try my hand at writing my own CMS to power the thing. In the next day or two, you should be able to point your browser at http://hipsterfag.com and be amazed by the glory of the same thing you're reading now.

Jageward has just done a complete overhaul of her site and I must say, I'm in awe. I have to admit, I kind of lifted the idea for the dark theme of this site from the original pain cave, and J.J.'s Pain Cave Version 2.0 does a one-up on both of them. J.J. has always had a much better eye for design than I have, and here, with nothing more than TextEdit and AppleWorks, she's made a very very cool site with a nice retro/tech/minimalist vibe. Very simple, very clean, and the graphics create a surprisingly cool mood.

I've realized that most of my designs lately have been very similar, probably due to the fact that reading 9 million blogs a day makes one think that a site has to have a particular format and certain features in certain places. One of the great things about just starting out making web pages is that you have very few preconceived notions about how things should look or act.