Fly on the E-Commerce Cyberwall

Growing pains
The more I look at One Stop Web Support, the more I see areas for improvement. Not that I'm dissatisfied with the content, but more and more I find myself wishing I had put it together differently.

For the most part, it grew out of notes I had written on various topics as those topics were in my thoughts. But, as such, they tend to be disconnected and (sometimes) a little repetitive.

I got that feeling especially as I was trying to integrate a dozen new articles into the site tonight. I, ahem, didn't get them up, because at each step I took toward fleshing my notes into articles, I found some point where I said to myself, "This point really needs to be taken farther in a separate article," or, "I really should link to one of the tools that helps to solve this problem instead of talking about the problem in isolation."

So writing quickly turned to researching tools or planning additional articles to truly complete the ones I was writing.

Mind you, there's nothing wrong with the articles themselves. But it would be a whole lot better if they had a more planned set of courses to the meal instead of a pick-and-choose buffet.

The site will be moving more in that direction as I go along, reassessing the existing articles for how they can fit better with everything else as well as setting up future articles to bridge the gaps instead of just to reflect what subjects happened to be on my mind.

Well, I promised that this blog would show both my successes and blunders. Let this be a reminder to take the time up front to plan things out instead of jumping in before you had thought it through entirely.
Jeff