You know, the biggest confidence booster is when you have something you’ve created, can share with the world, and it is something people actually like. The regular people. The everyday bloggers from anywhere in the world. Seeing a link to my site is like getting a high-five just for being damned awesome.
And it doesn’t even matter I’m not at the status of the big-leaguers. The Game Sloth’s, the ABS’s, that doesn’t matter to me. I’m content with my couple-thousand visitors a month. The numbers don’t even make a difference to me because in that sea of thousands I have some loyal fans, and a lot of ones I don’t even know about. And just the fact that they’re there makes it all worth the while. I know a few good people like what I serve with FlashStuf and well if not, I get a good enough amount to where I can mess around all I want and still get it out to 20,000 or so in a month. It doesn’t get much better than that.
Thoughts
FlashStuf
People always love their comfort zone. It’s evident to you every day if you use the internet; web sites usually use the same basic principles: underlined/different-colored links, an image at the top of the page that links back to the home page, etc. But when a web site makes the links the same color as the rest of the text on the page, how easy is it going to be for you to navigate around? Furthermore, how long are you really going to stay on that site? Things that appeal to the broadest audience are ones that use an already established method; ones that people already know.
Unfortunately, when a bold step is taken to go away from the norm and try to improve these already familiar ways, it can be drowned out and left unnoticed by people’s natural tendency to resist change. I’ll start with a big one, the very basic for anyone who is reading this right now: Web Browsers. Obviously, Internet Explorer would be considered the “norm” here. Many average internet users haven’t even heard the words “Firefox” or “Opera” (and would associate them to browsing the internet). But when you compare the advantages of a “different” browser like Firefox to the likes of Internet Explorer (CNET did just that), it’s a wonder more people aren’t using it.
Next week: Diverting from Myspace ..to Facebook
Thoughts
internet, Software
There is something extremely satisfying about being able to click a button in my browser, see this attractive (yet simple) interface of this thing they call WordPress, and be able to type whatever I want to have published instantly to the world. It gives me this feeling that I don’t believe they have a word for, or at least none that I know of.
I think this is why I find developing web applications so satisfying. Not only is it the future, it’s a completely new step forward. You can access it from anywhere and never have to worry about installations on the user-side, and it is directly hooked up to that wonderful thing we call the Internet. And the possibilities with something with that kind of hookup are basically infinite. Which means it’s going to take a long time before developing for this internet becomes boring.
So I just wanted to take advantage of this incredibly-made little piece of web application to let you know how great it all is.
Thoughts
blogging
