Tweaking navigation
I’m reorganizing some navigational stuff at the moment to try to clean things up a little. Yet again, I was experiencing difficulties with a flickr plugin (a totally different one this time) and so had to change all the jewellery gallery pages again. They now all link to flickr set slideshows. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’ll hold for the moment.
A while back I bought the domain theweejennydesigns.com, and I’m thinking about using it. I can’t decide how though. It could be an art and design blog, or the storefront that I’ve wanted to put up for so long, or both. I’m trying to think of ways to separate all that content from the generalized “bloggy” types of posts and site update posts and so forth. I’m going to be doing more of the art stuff and I really want it to be prominent, as that was the original point to having the site really.
It’s a tricky decision. I like the domain but “shop.theweejenny.net” seems a bit simpler, and doesn’t sound bad either, so that might be better as far as store fronts go. Then again, this domain sounds more like “here’s my online resume/portfolio” than it does an artist’s site.
Anybody have any suggestions? I’m kinda going in circles on this.
You could set up the shop.theweejenny.com to goto an eCommerce (such as osCommerce) type site.
http://www.theweejenny.com could be a splash(landing) page that displays your designs and then blog.theweejenny.com point to your WordPress blog.
You could also set up http://www.tehweejenny to show off your most recent blog posts, or your more popular shop items. Though that might be a bit more in depth in getting it all to work together.
I have thought about a couple of those things from time to time, the splash page with links especially. I’ve yet to find an eCommerce software that I really like yet unfortunately, but there are one or two hosted ones that I rather liked. One of my favourite digital artists uses http://bigcartel.com/ and it seems to be quite good, and there are other’s who’s names escape me right now that are written in ruby and really slick.
I’ve also considered just moving all the random bloggie type posts to wordpress.com and just linking to it from here, restricting posts on this domain to art and design/web design kinds of things.
I think this would all be easier if I didn’t have so many durn hobbies. *ha!*