Over the past few weeks I’ve been adding features, shifting servers and generally just getting T Incorporated into top shape. I’m glad I went ahead and launched but I found it a bit frustrating that I’ve been spending my time working on T Incorporated and not writing. So, now that things have finally settled down a bit (I’m not rebooting my server every 10 minutes anymore) I’d like to talk a bit about some of the design decisions that went into T Incorporated.
First, the goals:
I wanted to incorporate all of the stuff I do online. Well, at least almost all of it. I upload photos to Flickr, post my status to Twitter, create links in del.icio.us, write blog posts, etc. and I wanted to get them in one location, but in a structured way.
I wanted the site to be at least somewhat lasting. I tend to get in the habit of wanting to redesign my personal site often and I wanted to try and find a way to keep from doing that.
I wanted the site to be flexible. I often change my mind or think up new ideas and I didn’t want to have to redesign the site every time I thought of something.
I wanted the site to be representative of me.