About the site
I originally began working on this website ages ago, when I first started studying Information Science at the University of Bergen. Like all beginners starting their first website, I decided that it should focus around three topics: "me, me, me" (quoting Agent Smith from the Matrix). In other words my first couple of sites were just some huge ego trips. This is a quite normal mistake for novices, but if one wants visitors this is not enough.
The goal of acctually having a website is, in my opinion, so one can make a contribution to the Web and the community as a whole. The community beeing in this case beeing other people like you and me, surfing the Web for information that interests us. If you through your website want to be a part of this community, then you need to provide something that other people finds useful and that they would want to read. Otherwise they will just go to another site, leaving your webiste to slide into blackness, totally forgotten.
So, how do you decide about the content? The trick here is to provide some real content, and I can't stress this part enough! It doesn't help to make a half-hearted attempt just publishing a few links, a bunch of pictures of your cat, your girlfriend, your car etc. Your visitors will just leave before you can blink, never to come back. Now then, what you acctually need to do is finding some topics that really interests you, and write about those topics passionately and often.
It really doesn't matter that much what these topics are about. It could be your hobby, your political opinions, your art gallery, and okey, maybe even your cat. But what matters is that you truly shows that you are interested, and that you write well. If you manage this then other people will be infected by your passion, and hopefully stay on your site. Who knows, maybe they even will come back to check for new content.
As for the content of rpersen.no and my own contribution to the community (having pointed the finger), I will try to publish articles related to my own area of expertise. That is: design, usability, software development, content managament and Information Science in general. These articles can for example be in the form of tutorials, helpers, etc related to topics I've had trouble with myself. It really isn't that much content here yet, but stay tuned; things are coming at a faster rate than before, I promise. Also, if you have any suggestions, comments or questions: feel free to contact me.
Last updated Mon December 08 on 01:43:31