Things to do with a website

James has a fun collection of ideas of things to do on one’s website, some of which I have done and some of which I have not.

Here are a few more things I have on my website that weren’t on the list:

• Yearly listening pages to supplement last.fm’s tracking
• Recreated playlists
• A page listing my favorite albums — Greg Moore curates a seasonal selection of albums which is rad, and Rian van der Merwe has a cool currently listening / recently listened music site
• A list of music to try
• A list of visual artists I like
• Accountability tracking pages for some projects I’m working on
• Themed questions I like to think about

On my old website I had a “creative bucket list” of things I want to make someday. I also have texture collections I’m sharing under a CC license.

And a few other ideas I haven’t done (…yet?):

• A gardening page to keep track of plants and changes in the yard — could be especially handy to track which bulbs I bought each year 😂 (credit for this idea goes to Anthony Ciccarello)
• A nature notes page to log wildlife sightings and timing (phenology) — I might combine this with a garden page? or incorporate into my weeknotes?
• A travel guide / local area guide based on places you’ve been or your local knowledge
• Vacation logs / trip reports to share photos or stories or tips about destinations
• A wishlist / shopping list — I’ve thought about doing this to use my website as my wishlist instead of Pinterest but their bookmarklet makes it pretty easy…
• A bio page for my cats 😺
• A visual inspiration art gallery
• A guiding philosophy for my website (credit for this one goes to bikobatanari)