Where did I go? Well,2002.04.22

Where did I go? Well, at long last I have a new site to obsess about. And I've been working nearly every night on this newest project. There's always so much to do at the beginning, to take a site through a launch. It's fun, but a lot of work. This new site is called Pampered Puppy and it's a resource site aimed at people who love to spoil their dogs (yeah, I'm one of 'em).

Things sure have changed since I started Pathway (no longer owned - or designed - by me). Particularly in the land of site promotion. I remember the tidy lists I used to keep of search engines I'd submit to. Now there are far fewer SEs, and most of them require you to put down cold, hard cash before they'll agree to index your site.

I realize we're in the post-dot-com-crash world now, and companies need revenue streams in order to survive. Still, the concept of paying someone to make their site more relevant and a more useful resource just seems wrong to me. Guess I'm of the wrong web era.

Did you know that Goto.com is now Overture? Who knew. Even sadly funnier still, they don't plan to keep the goto.com domain indefinitely as a redirect. Did I miss something? Is 35 dollars a year (or less, depending on which registrar you work with) really so much to pay to keep a legacy of steady traffic coming to your site? Particularly when you're a business who is trying to make money from said visitors?

A friend of mine sent me a link the other day that is just yummy for those of us wanting to play with visual design: n-Generate. Yummy little app that works on Windows and Mac, lets you randomly generate different visual designs for CD covers, posters, and web pages. It's still being developed, so not all functions work yet, but so far I'd say this is one app that will get added to my short list of programs I'm willing to go out and buy without thinking twice about it.

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