Reflections

The art of writing on paper was in the language, the style of writing, the handwriting itself and the way it is laid. When we moved to writing for print the focus changed to the usage of fonts, typeface, layout and style of writing. As now we write for the web, the considerations opened up to the usage of flash, videos, pictures, audio, hyperlinks and a world of different design concerns. While I wouldn’t complain that these contributed to my ugly handwriting but given the vast power to include almost anything in web document, the tendency to use it – and over-use it is an issue to be concerned of.

I realized that by having too much web features in a web document sometimes ruin it rather than enhance it as hyperlinks pulls the reader away from the main topic, videos sometimes take too long to load and even the poor layout of links and documents design can cause irritation. Which in the case of this weblog I have decided to stick to minimum use of such feature.

In time to come the ability to personalize blogs and more features will be available as it matures over the years and more people will adopt blogging as a way of life. Blogging after all, is just another diary of a person that is recording his/her life story. Someone has mentioned this to me before

You can understand a blogger very well by reading their posts and entries, but he or she is a stranger that you may never meet or know in your whole life.