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Site History: MacKiDo - 0
How MacKiDo has evolved: Concept Start

By:David K. Every
©Copyright 1999


MacKiDo rev-0

-- up to January 27, 1997

Basically unpublished.

I was tired of explaining things over and over again to people who all had the same fallacies. So I started this site (1/19/97) as a personal page that would debunk "some" of the ignorance about Macs and have a few of my favorite Mac Advocacy arguments. (Write-Once, read-many).

I organized what I was going to do into groups, and tried to keep the access as flat as possible. Some articles weren't written yet, but I put in place holders, and knew things would grow.

I chose a site theme and built everything around that. I picked a name, the look, the layout, and so on, all with a theme and a feel in mind. I went Japanese, and Martial Arts based. That gave me the Kanji (characters) which became the logo, and let me know which font I should use for the Site's Banner -- and I knew it would let me get into Eastern Philosophy or Martial Arts, which are also interests of mine. It reflected me.

It took a few days of work to get MacKiDo up to this point.

A few hits total, mostly me and some friends. Little did I know how such things grow.

Lessons

  1. Pick a theme. This metaphor will give you ideas on organization, layout, look, feel, name and so on. This will give the site a unity (focus) that you should try to carry throughout. More than that, it can also give the user a metaphor and some indications on what to expect. This helps them figure out things and learn their way around. Stay consistant!
     
  2. Place holders are a bad idea. They remind everyone of what is incompleted, instead of focusing on what is available.
     
  3. Sites will grow -- a lot. Don't get started on one, unless you are prepared to stay VERY focuses (and narrow on what you are doing), or you are prepared to devote a lot of time to one.


Created: 3/10/98
Updated: 11/09/02


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