I implemented some changes today that I had been considering for a while and finally decided needed to be done. Mainly it was moving Scratchpad from a separate website that was connected to a subdomain of this website and instead giving it a new home on my personal blog, The Sojourner’s Wasteland. The link to Scratchpad has been removed from the main menu of this website. I will decide later if I think Scratchpad should be linked from this website again. For now I am ambivalent on that. Anyway, here are the details on the changes I made, as written in a Twitter thread on my personal Twitter account.
Today I moved Scratchpad, which was a kind of messy space for my writing and photography to my personal blog instead of having it on a separate website. The reason is that I am just too busy to maintain three websites. It will be enough to stay current with new posts on two.
Also, my I am putting the Instagram account associated with it in permanent suspension. I’m not deleting the account because I would rather leave those posts online, but I don’t intend to post to that account anymore. Instead I will just use my personal Instagram account.
Basically, I just came to feel that although Scratchpad was a cool side project (and one I still wish to dabble in), it didn’t need a separate website and Instagram because it was something I would only post to sporadically.
One professional photographer advised me that having too many websites meant seeming like you were unproductive because the work you put online was spread thin across multiple websites. I thought about what they said for a long while and decided consolidating was best.
Now the plan is to have a single website to showcase my photography and perhaps some of my writing. All of the other less formal work will show up on my personal blog, The Sojourner’s Wasteland (http://sjwasteland.com), my personal Instagram (@prramer), and here.
The website for my professional photography is https://prramer.com.
Originally tweeted by Paul R. Ramer (@prramer) on 18 August 2020.