pt1

Predictably, things have already changed. I gave up on LibDocs and other CSS templates after deciding that (1) The layout of LibDocs didn't actually suit my site, and (2) It was far too tedious to reverse-engineer what the CSS was doing when the scope of my site is not complex enough to justify it.

Instead, I'm writing my own CSS, which is far simpler and thus more conducive to understanding what it is I'm actually doing and how I can alter it to accommodate my needs. Also, it's more fun.

I'm at the point where I have a rudimentary site ready to go with some content, which means the next step is to go live, which means buying a domain. I'm running into a hiccup here, because I'm no longer settled on klovysmusic.com. The focus isn't just music, so that would be confusing or even misleading to anyone being linked to this site because, say, I wanted to share my review of the Sirens miniseries.

Additionally, even if musicandmusings.com or musingsandmusic.com weren't both taken, I think I prefer having my name in the domain -- but klovysmusingsandmusic.com seems too long and complicated, klovysmusingsmusic.com looks like a scramble of unrelated words, and besides, I'd like to be nice to the dyslexic if I can help it. I vaguely considered klovysmm.com but I don't think that makes any sense and would, if anything, make people think I was selling candy.

So I'm left with the obvious: klovys.net (.com is unfortunately taken). Thing is, I do prefer the feel of something like klovysmusic.com. There's purpose in a name like that. You know what you're going to get before the page even loads. I want that.

So I think I'm leaning toward using subdomains. One would be music.klovys.net and the other musings.klovys.net. I'd prefer .com but I suppose I should accept that just won't happen. In theory, that looks good to me. In practice, I don't know anything about subdomains except that I am probably adding more complexity to this whole endeavor.

Maybe it's not that bad. I don't know yet. That's the nature of not knowing anything. I'll figure it out tomorrow!