A few weeks ago, I started “FlashForwardFridays (FFF)” to discuss future projects. I was also looking for some alliteration to talk about my current projects, but I wasn’t quite sure what to call them or even what day of the week to post. I was thinking likely Tuesday or Thursday, so I tapped into my son’s creative mind, and voila, Tadpole Tuesdays were born.

I mentioned one of my projects the other day, some relatively straightforward updates to my websites (PolyWogg.ca and ThePolyBlog.ca). I naively mentioned that I wanted to move some posts from PolyWogg.ca that were more about goals and projects than actual writing, and I thought it was a small handful to choose from at best. Ummm, no, there are actually 131 to review. Admittedly, most of them WON’T move, although some of them will challenge me to decide if I want regular blogging posts on the PolyWogg site or not. Any that could qualify as fitting in my future guides are okay to stay — like “Understanding a partially-assessed pool”. However, another post about “Breaking a long astronomy hiatus” is not content for my guide. Just blogging stuff about astronomy goals. I need to decide if that type of content stays on the site as it could, eventually, sit beside my astronomy guide(s), or just as easily fit on my ThePolyBlog site with goals.

Anyway, I’ve moved two very recent posts that triggered the project; I have 129 more to think about. If I do move stuff, I will also add a redirect to send it to this site (ThePolyBlog.ca). But it has started.

The steps are relatively straightforward though, easy peasy lemon squeezy.

I also want to add a new section to the PolyWogg site for my astronomy guide. That will take about five major steps, and I ‘haven’t made any progress on it yet. Just planned out the steps.

Now that I have solved my quote layouts (an earlier post FFF: Quote layouts), I can redo the posts so that I have a pretty picture, that shares well to social media, and that is still searchable by text/prose. I have 2 done so far with 94 to go.

Moving forward a step into my humour pages, I want to do the same with them that I did with my quotes. I tried that once before, and the prose was challenging or the content was too silly. I haven’t started yet, but there are 82 of them on the site to redo.

Now, here’s where my small mind starts to wobble…if consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, my brain starts to wonder if other short posts that are good for sharing should ALSO be turned into images like the quotes or humour. I want to tell my hobgoblin that no, I do NOT want to do that for book reviews. There are over 200 of them, that’s way too much work to take on, and I’m not sure it works as well. By contrast, movie / music / TV / Podcast reviews COULD all fit that mold, keep it small. For music, for example, if I was doing an album review of a single artist, it would be easy to work that into a shareable image layout. I just don’t know that there’s any real value to it.

I do see the benefit if I do it for recipes … if I could redo the layout as a 5×7″ or 4×6″ recipe card that is downloadable and printable, that could work pretty well. Easy to share, and there aren’t that many on the site (only 12). It’s been on my list before, I just felt the text was better as searchable. I didn’t have an easy way to combine the two. Now that I do, maybe it’s worth it.

So, that’s my first Tadpole Tuesday, and the status of my project to tweak the website. I have other stuff I want to do, too, including populating more photos, but that’s a totally separate project.