I’ve been wrenching on my site (idrawdigital) for a little while now. I’ve been finding that the traffic has been relatively steady, but people seem to check it out, say “hmm that’s pretty cool.’ and then take off, never to return.

I need to change that. I can make all the tutorials and how to guides I want, but if there’s nothing compelling to keep people coming back, it’s a bit of a waste. So I’ve been working like a mechanic, hoping to kill it in the future. By ‘it’ I mean readership. And by killing, I mean impressing them.

Visually, the site was lacking - for a comic book tute site - comics are a VISUAL medium. Instead it looked like a textbook. Now I’ve decided to include an image header with each post, so the article snippets have a fancy image to go along with the post. I’ve also cut down the post size on the main page, since some of my tutes were pretty lengthy and you had to scroll pretty far in order to find the next post for discussion. That probably put a lot of people off.

I should know all of this stuff already - and I did. I just didn’t implement it properly. But thats what happens when you spread yourself thin. At least on this tumblr blog I can just mess around, show off and be done with it. Its not meant to be anything groundbreaking or influential. A lot of hard work isn’t necessary to keep this thing rolling, because its personal. Over there, at idrawdigital - its all business (in a sense.) More work needs to be dedicated to making the experience better.

I hope it works. :)