Friday, August 18, 2006

Orginizing a Titlewave of Ideas

"> More work on my website, and getting great ideas. I have been sitting in the university starbucks writing mind maps and trying to figure out how to orginize my website. The idea that has come to my mind is to write an intro at the beginning of each page describing the main topics that I will be covering in that page. The trick is that within each page I will have tons of links to the other sections of other pages in the site.
It would look like this. As you read the section say on ideas(I am taking liberties assuming you think I am interesting enough to go to my website, and also actually read it instead of just looking at all the cool pictures), I might bring up where the idea came from, like becomming ambidexterous from leonardo davinchi, or how to improve creativity through juggling(link to juggling and theories of creativity).
I think I will end up writing enough material for a book by the time I am done, so it will deffinately have an organic feel to it. To keep navigating it easier, I think I will do a mind map of the whole website with links built in to show one way the flow of the website could go.

Writing Website

Well I have been working on writing a website for about the past two weeks. It is quite a lot more work than I anticipated, but is never the less coming along. I have also scoured my old pictures for memorable poses of myself. I like to take pictures, but almost never take any of myself, for obvious reasons(arm length pics get boring real fast).

My biggest struggle in the content of the website has been how to organize the ideas in a coherent manner. All of my ideas link together, so it is hard to relegate them to one section. I have learned some info on mind maps from my friend Jerome, and these are helping me a great deal. I have also found that writing several introductions for the same topic allows me to get a feel for what the main idea is, and I will end up using the intro's in different sections as segways from topics pages to main pages( this doesn't make sense in words, but will become clear later).

Off to write more content....