Well, perhaps you all should come inside and see for yourself .. from the safety of the interwebz!
Made this one today as I had a bit of time to play with, and a desire to find some new images to work with. This was fresh from the Southern Charms preview pages, and it gave me enough to form the first paragraph or so. I liked that the photo had plenty of space to work with to place my text. I even ended up cutting some off to the right side from the original picture.
The safely of being in front of our computer (or device) screen is comforting and possibly arousing, but damn, I wouldn't want ANY part of this, and it's a pretty good reason to stay away from Craigslist, online personals, and possibly even all those "swipe-left" type applications. Or maybe the danger is part of the appeal for you. I won't judge you .. too much. LOL Just don't complain later! Especially when you get exactly what you wanted!
It's a weird thing today. I posted a new caption last night which got about 1200 views so far in about 23 hours. Ended up with one comment. Not a huge shock. Every post usually gets a comment or two, but I did expect more considering this was the first web design update since I started it back in 2010.
Wasn't sure what to think so far, and since it's a free theme/template, I don't have all the control I would like to have. Knowing HTML. I changed a few things I wasn't sure I could with the tools given, and that made me feel somewhat better. I just figured SOMEONE would say, "Damn, the redesign SUCKS!" or "Wow, I can read it better on my cell phone now with some brightness in the background," or "Whatever .. you are so played out it's not even funny anymore."
Nope. Nothing at all. It was the digital equivalent of screaming into a black hole filled with deaf bats. The irony is that, unless all the bots and search engines decided to hound the site at once due to the changeover, I got over 36 thousands page hits in that 24 hour period! Most of them centered on captions off to the side column from what I can tell. The day before, comparison wise, I had 4,997 views for the site. For all I know, the old design was not counting everything properly and I was getting many more views than I imagined, but I will go with the entire TG community wondering if my blog had been taken over by a hacker or something and were curious to what happened.
Soooo, do I keep it like this, try to tweak it a bit more (I don't like that it doesn't show ALL the labels, and displays the last one chosen to overlay onto the photo) or go back to the old way, which I still have saved somewhere. Hell, I could save this one too and switch back and forth to really fuck with everyone. The main thing is this: I really want (and need) some feedback!
You are the bastards that have to view and navigate this shady dark corner of the net. What do you like about the reboot? What don't you like? What did you like (and hate) about the old version? Like most of your wives and girlfriends, the worst thing you can do is not say a damn word when she comes home with a new hairstyle or color. Notice it and speak up! The Tides of March are upon us!
And of course, you can comment about the caption too!