In the last part of this series – though, technically, it could go on forever if I really wanted to dig into the technicalities … but dwelling on anything isn’t really the best way to start anything on anything – I’d like to return to an earlier quote with an astounding profoundness level of infinity times nothing:
I have to mention that I’m an insane perfectionist.
(Perfectionism in online endeavours + Hours input)(Hunger for online relevancy + Hours input) = Dumbassness.
Equals me.
You cannot be a perfect writer
I’ve mentioned previously the pitfall-teetering aspects of clutching onto the belief that posting less than once a day or posting with more than zero spelling and grammar mistakes will be the death of your burgeoning online celebrity status. Or, at least, the burgeoning degree of respect afforded to you by your readers.
It bears repeating. And yes, you are allowed to repeat words within one post. Lower the thesaurus.
You cannot be a perfect designer
I like to believe that there’s a huge underground cult of theme tweakers out there.
Nobody likes to admit to building off someone else’s work. Some even prefer the time-tested method of ripping out the theme author’s credits from the theme footer, as well as their own souls from their gaping maws.
(Author: Vladimir Agafonkin. Theme: Gaia … Site tweaking still in process. Okay? Okay.)
Ah, saboteur-hypocrisy in parentheses.
The point which I’m not getting any closer to making than I was at the last h3 is that theme tweaking or designing can become the perfect excuse for bludgeoning your site to death with invisible words.
Just opening up Photoshop one last time and shifting that icon one last pixel to the left?
No.
Write, damnnit.
You cannot be a perfect Internet superstar
Or in other words, page views, comment counts, link counts and so on could not be a less productive use of your time if you chose to dedicate your life to figuring out a scientifically feasible way to hop on one elbow while clapping one-handed and rubbing circles on your stomach while patting the top of your head.
But if things like those will matter to you in five years, more power to you getting a life.
