La cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point numéro deux


	December 31, 2005

"Kotodama" - Kagrra

One thing that I have never understood in the realm of personal webpages is this need for 'visitor content.' I mean, just what is this 'visitor content' anyway? Usually it's just a bunch of brushes named 'vintage' and 'grunge' slapped together with some LJ icons along with a few textures and wallpapers. If you get really lucky, you might run across a tutorial on how to 'oh-em-gee photoshop as great ~~or as poorly~~ as the webmaster.' Usually 'visitor content' is also the same as every other site that is linked in its links out page and usually there will be at least one blog entry centred on how everyone and their mothers is out to steal their 'work' (loosely defined as chicken scratch produced on a ripped version of photoshop).

Sometimes the term 'visitor's content' will even be shortened to just 'content' depending on the width of the sidebar on the standard div twin-textarea layout featured on the site. Occassionally (and this is if you're really lucky), people will even try to be 'artistic' (loosely defined as a mild aneurysm in which all sense of originality disappears) and use rare and advanced words like 'emo' or 'bleed' or 'suffer' or 'craptastic shit' to denote 'visitor's content.'

Frankly, in my humble opinion, 'visitor's content' on a blog is a waste of time. I don't agree with it and I don't see the point of it. It does absolutely nothing to pull you and your visitor's closer, and, if visitor's content is the only reason why people are visiting your site, then you must be gun-to-the-forehead boring. Plus, excuse me, but personal sites are supposed to be a shrine of narcissism to yourself. Why would you even want to be 'considerate' (loosely defined as blatantly two-faced and artificial) toward others on your site?

Repeat after me: Personal site.

Did you catch that? No? Okay, again:

Personal site.

Meaning: personal (meaningful to you) and site (shithole in some obscure corner of the Internet).

How, in any way, do brushes and LJ icons and wallpapers make your site more personal? If you are seriously so in need of returning visitors that you need to offer them 'goodies' (a synonym of 'visitor's content') as a pat on the ass for visiting, then I think you have serious life issues.

Meaning: you need to get one.


	lettres d'amour

haha my site isnt really visitor content is just this junk page. it isnt really for people to use - it's just a display of what i do when i'm free. i dont really allow visitors to use them lest they abuse them or something.

i wouldnt mine if the visitors' content is highly creative and useful but if it's just some photoshop thing slapped with text i think they can forget it.

whee. happy new year. it's 3 hours and 56 minutes to 12 midnight from here. ((:


	yu li

Haha. Well, visitor content may be entertaining to first time visitors who come and disappear forever after that. Hence, with visitor content, we might be able to 'entertain' or 'keep them occupied' for a while.

But I have to agree. The weblog is supposed to be the main drawpoint.

However, I still find myself surfing people's visitor content as well, for the fun of it.

Brenda

Bravo.. nice entry!!

Most " personal sites' " visitor's content don't really appeal to me.. You know.. those 'Hiatus signs' .. or '404 Error Page' craps? I don't really see the need to download other people's 'Hiatus sign' to put on my site to tell people that I'm on hiatus when I'm capable of creating the 'sign' myself. =/

Happy new year~!

desmond!!

hehe i never saw any purpose in having visitor content, or it wouldn't be called personal right? you've got good points there, all of them. way ta gooo.
anyway happy 2006!

vanessa

Haha. I remember when I had icons and tutorials and all that crap! Now, my visitor content is basically a cheap-ass way to get more people to read some of my more entertaining work.

But I don't think it works too well.

Arielle


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