Nov 18 2005
NaNoWriMo 2005
I was going to take part in the 2005 National Novel Writing Month but dropped out a week into November after realising I had far too much on (what with job apps, etc.) and yet have still been receiving the NaNoWriMo e-mails: I’m too lazy to untick a box on the appropriate page.
Anyway, I got an e-mail today telling me that NaNoWriMo are suffering from a debt problem to the tune of $10,000 due to expenses throughout the month/s. Out of sheer curiousity, I went and checked their expenses PDF and was incredibly shocked to see this:
Graphic design/web design costs: $4500
Author page and novel excerpt redesign, new store page, new drop-down menus, CSS clean-up of ten pages, winner certificate design, participant and winner icon creation, site spot illustrations.
Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t get why this costs so much? Sure, the store page which probably relies on a complicated e-commerce-y-doodaa (new word, whoo) shop cart system might cost a couple of hundred to develop and graphic design can be costly if you want top notch-stuff, but “CSS clean-up of ten pages”?! This is the kind of crap I do for free! “New drop-down menus”? What’s wrong with following a tutorial?
If people are willing to pay this kind of price, I think I need to up my prices.
Warning
This post is over 6 months old. This means that, despite my best intentions, it may no longer be accurate. Age, motherhood, experience, loss... these things have all changed me from when this blog was started back in the heady (ha) days of my youth.
As much as I would like to go back and edit 10 years of archives to provide an insight into the 'me' of now — to update coding snippets and revise website advice — it would probably take years to do so (by which point I'd have to start again!) This would defeat the point of keeping these archives anyway.
Please take these posts for what they are: a brief look into my past, my history, my journey.
