Pre-(final project post) post

In case you do not feel like venturing over to my old blog(blogger blog) that was re-created into a more visually pleasing blog(weebly blog), I am going to paste the final entry I wrote in the blogger blog.

This post will not be posted in my weebly blog, but it was just to let all of my readers (yeah...okay.) what was going through my mind when I decided to change, and even before I decided to change, and the explanation for why everything is framed this way and why my mind is doing all of these things and I am changing in this way.

From the beginning of the semester I was not in this mind frame that I am now, and I think that all of this talk about framing has changed mine. In the past I struggled to make a post, and even right now I feel that my fingers can not type fast enough to keep up with how my mind is going. All the time I spend thinking, I spend all of my time thinking, I think all of the time. It is always new ideas and new ways to improve. I have always been this way but now it is much faster, and much more open and strange. New ideas that may have not been 'normal' in my past but that I believe will change how I succeed in the future. I do believe my new way of thinking will help me to succeed, and I do/will credit this class if/when I get there.

So now, the final post of the blogger blog:
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Attention Readers,

I have recently been learning about the concept of framing, especially in relation to internet sites. Many sites, like blogger, confine the author to a few options, and limit the creativity of the author. Seeing as I am not HTML savvy and are forced to rely on pre-made setups, I had chosen blogger as a way to slowly open up my eyes to the world of blogging.

At one point or another, we all grow, we all change. My knowledge of blogs has begun to exceed the limits of blogger, and it is time to search for newer, more challenging, more professional setups. In hopes that this zine will someday go somewhere, it is important for me to have a visual pleasing, professional looking site. I do not believe that I can find that here, and after much searching and investigation, I was able to locate a site that gave more creative freedom.

Realizing that this new site will one day too, be limiting to the vision I have for this zine, I am still taking a necessary step towards growing my project, a step that is important for the history of The Underground.

I have learned that the way this site is framed is very limiting, and that even the set up of the internet itself (like why all browsers are squares) is also limiting. I think that maybe one day, hoping The Underground can go into print, I will make a shape other than a square. For now, I do not know how to make circle or triangle web pages, so I will have to stick with the square, but I would prefer to be able to separate articles, have a main page, and a contact form. All of these can open up the Underground to more viewers, and more networking possibilities.

Speaking of networking, I can't exactly write off blogger completely. I have gained attention from more professional websites and magazines due to the content of my site. I have set up an internship writing for TheCelebrityCafe.com this summer, and look forward to gaining more writing samples in order to progress my ideas to an even higher level. And I believe that the new and improved Underground will open up more contacts, and will give UG a bigger chance of reaching more people.

In other good news, we have been published (a rendition of The Skies Revolt article) in a student-run fashion magazine called Shei. Picture soon to be posted.

Not wanting to lose all of you, this site will remain open, but feel free to transfer to the new site,

The articles will remain the same, the type of content will remain the same, and the dreams will remain the same. I'm only hoping to take it one step at a time to be able to reach who I want to reach, and go where I want to go. I hope to take you all with me.

To new and future frames,
-The Underground
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Even as I write this post now I am still in my mind thinking that I am not happy with the way this site is framed because I am thinking that once I press the 'publish post' button, this post will take up almost my entire page. Thus, my reason for switching could not have been a better one and I will always believe that.