I’m going to try an experiment here. Short-Blogging. Not quite microblogging, just short. There are too many topics I want to cover every single day, and it would be impossible to do a 500 word coverage for all of them. First though, I will analyze the current design of my site.

My frontpage consist of 11 post summaries with a thumbnail each. On the top right, I removed the ads and placed a box with Popular posts, Recent Comments and Tags. Popular posts allowed some of my old yet popular posts to remain actively read, instead of disappearing into the web abyss. Recent comments are for those social butterflies, wanting to see what other people are thinking. And of course there’s Tags. Out of all the blogs I’ve designed, I’ve never placed much of an enphasis on the tag cloud. But I believe that we will see it more and more, especially with the rise of microblogging.

While the current site design has a navigation that will work for a small to mid range of topics, it is not easy to navigate if I was to post on a broad range of them. As I create these posts, I will probably integrate a more advanced tag plugin, even if it has to be custom coded.

Microblogging in Twitter is pretty fun and extremely informational too. But unless I use social media full-time in my occupation, it is currently more than difficult to fit it into my schedule. Which is also one of the primary reasons I’ve been building TwiSpot.com, so that even someone like me can take advantage of all it has to offer, without spending a ridiculous amount of time to process all the information.

Speaking of custom coding, version 2 of TwiSpot.com is in the works, with a crazy amount of new features. Actually the changes are so drastic that it’s like a completely new site. I can’t say too much about it yet, but it will be fun and easy to use. That’s basically what I try and base most of my designs and projects on. If I don’t love using or seeing it, then it’s not worth building. Can’t wait to show you!