I’m still playing around with my website and I’m making headway but I’m also still hitting roadblocks.
What I’m noticing is that I like the single post view on my website, like when you click on an article to view it by itself.
However I’m still not liking my blog list view, as it feels very busy and overwhelming to read and follow.
I think this is because I’m still trying to determine how to best include short form content vs long form content.
In effect, should short form content be completely separated on its own page? Or should it be integrated alongside the long form content?
Previously I integrated it within my blog list view, such as displaying movies and music posts, because I found that the short form content provided a nice break from the long form content.
However, I think the primary issue I’m experiencing right now is that some of my posts are extremely long, such as my conversations with ChatGPT. Even more so, these chats are technically considered short form content (i.e. sharing a chat similar to sharing an article link).
What’s weird though is that if I go back and look at the blog list view of older posts, like when I first started my website, it looks fine. I think this is because most of my content was shorter posts of just a few paragraphs of text with the occasional long form post.
And finally, I’m still not really sure about using categories. In effect, even though my progression over the years has progressed from one domain of knowledge to another (i.e. games, computers, web, community, culture, etc), I often have a hard time trying to categorize a post and stick it within a set silo, when it feels like it could apply to many different things at once.
Yet at the same time, categorizing a post as a “movie” or “music” seems completely normal and fine.
All said and done, while I enjoy design and styling my website, I think my greatest difficulty is organizing and structuring content.