Just a moment ago, as I was waiting for Windose to boot up, and I was doing some thinking about blogs and blogging. My 15 minute boot up time gives me plenty of time to think, and I realized that one of the big problems with blogs is that there is often no good way of browsing the content. So what to do about that… ?
Then I came up with an innovative new way of cataloging content, I’m going to create lots of pages like this with a link to each post, and a short description of what the post is about. It’s a little low tech, quick and dirty even, but it might just work…
Hello World. – This post is the last in a series of tests and hello worlds as the blog gradually got on it’s feet. It’s also the first post to have an illustration, although it’s just a sketch of a spaceship.
Wishful Drinking. – Another very short post as I just had to mention a great book I had just heard of.
Clone Wars. – The first mention of a subject that has come to dominate this site. Computer generated 3D visuals, specially animation. This post is a review of Star Wars The Clone Wars, which I had just watched on DVD.
The Kadar Class Spaceship, a Tutorial. – A really meaty post – the first one – and an example of the sort of content that a blog really does well. I created a spaceship illustration, in 2D from scratch, and this was the first post in a series documenting it. This post still gets a lot of hits even after six months and is often searched for by name.
A 3D Red Dragon. – One of many posts for Illustration Friday. It’s a 3D dragon done in trueSpace when I was still very much developing my 3D modeling and rendering skills. I still have a soft spot for trueSpace, although I have now moved on to Blender in my search for the best, open source and free 3D image creation application.
Well that’s the first part of a complete index of the posts on my site done. Only a couple of hundred more to go.
