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The first thing I did was copy all the entries from my old journal into my new one. This took a lot longer than it should have (2 months) because I kept getting sick of reading about myself back in highschool and would quit writing for long periods of time. This transfer lead me to realize a few things about my past self. 1 I was boring, or the stuff I wrote about back then seems pretty boring to me now. 2 I was really bad at spelling and grammar. Throughout moving my entries I had to keep myself from “updating” them to fix errors.

I finally finished the transfer on December 22 of 2010, and have been consistent in my writing since then. My memory seems to have improved some, and being able to dump a lot of my thoughts out instead of trying to remember everything at once helps. I’m really trying to get myself on a schedule of writing twice a day; some time around noon and in the evening. This has caused my to write a lot more than I thought I would, and I realized how interesting my days actually are.

Journal keeping has been a really interesting endeavor so far, and if any of you are considering starting I would suggest it. You can get a lot of helpful hints from this article from The Art of Manliness.

Today I took the Survey for People Who Make Websites, and if you build web sites you should to. We should all thank the people at A List Apart for providing this service, and for taking steps toward building metrics for our industry.

Home Page

The background for the home page would have the look of a weathered sketchbook page. There would be perforations along the left side giving it the look of having just been torn out of a sketchbook. The head image or logo at the top may change randomly on load; I’m not sure about that yet. This drawing actually has three different Ideas for navigation on it.

Navigation Option 1

Located along the left side of the main content block. The idea for this navigation is that it would go along with the paper idea of the site. The background for the links would have the appearance of lined notebook paper that had been torn into squares. The link’s text would sit on a blue line like it had been written on the paper.

Navigation Option 2

Location attached to the right side of the main content block. I believe that this form of navigation would have to be images to gain my desired effect. I would set text inside the link to display none to help with accessibility. The tabs would have a look very similar to that of the main content, which could give the look of multiple pages of paper stacked on top of one another. The tabs could give the site more depth, but I am worried about the issue of accessibility.

Navigation Option 3

Located at the top of the page. About the same as Option 2, but they will probably be different colors and look like sticky tabs that can be inserted. The pro’s of this idea is that the tabs would not have to be images and would increase accessibility. The cons I don’t really like the Idea.

I’m not sure on the content just yet.

Gallery Page

The gallery page will have the same style of background and navigation as the home page so I didn’t bother drawing it on this image. The only thing that is really important on this page is the thumbnails. I believe I will go with larger thumbnails than usual the thumbnails will have the look of being taped or pasted onto the page. I left it out but the description will be right bellow the images probably in the same style as the links in “Navigation Option 1″

This is all I can come up with right now. Please leave feedback it will be greatly appreciated.