I can’t tell you how many times I’ve started a website.
I also won’t be able to tell you how many times I’ve lost them. It’s been at least three or four at this point, and it’s quite the liability. I sink so much time into this site, that it’s simply insane. Each time, I end up spending hours, days, even weeks trying to get it to a stage where I’m comfortable with it in any way shape or form.
Most of the time, I feel unsuccessful in those endeavors. I always want to adjust, tweak, improve, and add onto my already crazy ideas. To the point of questioning how feasible any of my ideas are, at any given point. It can be a touch isolating, it feels like. However, I imagine that this is part of the gig. I do enjoy things being neat, functional, and unique. This, I feel, is as close of a website akin to the above.
I’ve custom edited the most simplistic site template I could find. I wouldn’t say I’ve completely redone it, however, I’ve created and added a lot of custom style classes, added a small bit of mobile support, and really have created something that is uniquely McGlovin. I doubt you’ll find many websites short of the 90s that come even close to this monster.
However, I like it. It gives you a good idea of any projects I’m working on, social media that I may be active on (wait, I don’t think that’s implemented yet…), as well as help to add SEO to the site. Over the course of time, I type enough messages about AI, Saxophone, Music, DND, RPGs, coding, rambling, etc. and search engines will pick up on that.
See, that is the true intent of most big companies when they have blogs. SEO. Getting them higher up inside of the internet levels so that they can be ‘successful’. I’m not sure if this McGlovin thing will ever really be that. Successful. However. If nothing else, it’ll be functional.
Functionally, I’m writing DND music. I’m compiling a vast amount of genres to be able to distribute amongst anybody and everybody who plays RPG music. And I’d like them to all be somewhat consistent in that the melodic content revolves around the players and the environment. The narrator, the players themselves, are the true most important elements of the songs. I try to write all of my music in relation to what I’d want to speak over, play amongst, etc.
So with that being said. Enjoy the site! It’s still definitely under construction. I’m trying to hand-build each page as well as their styles, recognizing and learning along the way. The contact page is going to be one of the biggest bears. Hell, this blog took me at least the better part of a week to conceptualize, implement, and ultimately make work. I had to tag in some friends of mine for them to assist. Finally, this evening, I got it figured out.
I was literally missing one button. Right in front of me. The entire time. In tandem with not properly naming the php page created for the Blog. Anyway. That’s how it be.
Thanks.