But, be more specific:

- Who is that client? (make of a name, persona, to visualize it- it may be only one of the 100 people that sees your blog, but that is the one that matters)
- What one “thing” do you want that person to know?
- What one “thing” do you want that person to do?

Then, try to duplicate that interaction over and over

Another random thought- what ONE thing are you really good at. James White doesn’t have to call MTV, they call him. He didn’t have to ask Kayne to post a blog about him.

“Be so good, they can’t ignore you.” The more I dig into the purpose of my blog, the more I dig into the purpose of my life.

With that said- keep creating, its a form of thinking out loud (perhaps), and sometimes I find its my path to self discovery. :)

I can write other people’s taglines, but of course I agonized over mine. It’s a work in progress. How would you sum up “I’m a web designer/blog consultant/aspiring abstract artist/talented generalist with a whole mess of opinions on technology, economics, and culture, and my reason for writing here is that technology is made too hard for normal people and clients so I like to help them.”

In 5 words or less. :-)

I like your redesign, its much more usable, and I like the way it was purpose oriented. My main criticism would be your tagline. It just a little generic, everyone wants to be that “translator” “manager” “middleman”- thats what I wanted my blog to be about- while I enjoy your blog, I feel like its not really about demystifying technology. I don’t know- with that said , you are on my feed reader, because you are useful, brief and interesting.

May want to read this:

http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/the-webs-dirty-little-secret/

Funny that nobody wanted to go on the record in comments, it was all via the email back channel. And it wasn’t like they were sparing my feelings, almost everything was positive, and I asked to hear about stuff I could do better.

Thanks for looking at design drafts BTW. If anyone out there is looking for a top notch web developer, Micah’s your guy. He built Making the Chain soup to nuts by himself.