A year in review
The entry for September 15th reads “Long time, no post” after not writing anything after a month. The fact that I’m typing this on January 10th, almost 3 months after my last post, sums up one of the lessons I’ll need to learn in the future. Sure, the load of homework and projects can get in the way of things, but I’m sitting here at my desk too often, staring at the screen and wondering what to write about while killing my ears with my headphones.
Maybe it’s because this website really has no clear purpose. Which was the point of it. I just wanted a place to jot down my thoughts, share some random graphic design tricks, and give my photography some breathing room online. That hasn’t worked out so well with about one-and-a-half months worth of doing nothing but homework and another month worth of writer’s block, laziness, lack of inspiration, whatever I can use as an excuse this time around.
Then I’m looking at the statistics. A few days with more than a hundred visits is enough to lift my spirits up a bit, considering this is a fairly young and tiny website. Where do all of them come from? According to Google, my graphic design tutorials hog more than 60% of all the visits to Shadow Logic, while squishing everything else into 40%. Meanwhile, people are getting pretty bored on here, with the exception of a few graphic design and photography enthusiasts. Who are the ones the website is aimed for, anyway. No one really pauses to read articles like this though.
The solution? I need to write a bit more often, obviously. My tutorials are pretty good; I just need more of them. I’ll have to update my photography section more consistently with even better photos, and maybe I should make it an actual tab instead of a hard-to-spot link that looks like part of the background. Seeing that graphic design is my strength, however, maybe I should put it to use. The only way to really draw in more visitors is to give them a little present on their way out, so more brush packs and wallpapers will be on their way in the future.
Overall, Shadow Logic could be better. However, it’s pretty much a test drive for me, and it hasn’t done bad either. In it’s first year, it went from a random, half-dead blog to a tutorial website. Let’s wait and see what I screw up this little place into in a year. =]
