Jayeblog

For the past two academic quarters, I’ve been on a co-op job doing web development work. My primary task was to take websites from a number of departments in the organization, already designed and populated with content, and rebuild those sites in Drupal (see previous bloggery). After almost six months on the job, you learn a few things about web-dev jobs. The co-op ended on Friday, so I think this is a good time to talk about a few of the things I learned.

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What people choose to do with their personal websites varies considerably. A lot of people use their site as a blog; some people use their site more like a portfolio; some people use it for a little of both. Others use it for comics, or for music.

I want to use my site, Jayeb.com, as a jumping point to all of the places I inhabit on the web. But my own web-presence is a bit, shall we say, scattered. I blog at Jayeblog.com, I Twitter, I post photos to my Flickr page, I make comics at UGMadness.net, and I maintain a portfolio and resume at Jayeb.com.

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