Content before design

I nearly went straight for the “design” button as soon as I logged in here at WordPress for the first time, but managed to resist the temptation. Design is more fun than writing content (probably because you can’t do it as often, unless you’re a graphic designer or whatever) so it’s what I’d normally do. However, getting a design right without content is difficult, and you’d probably have to invent some content anyway if you wanted to prototype it properly (and who wants to see Lorem Ipsum again)?

I need to get used to this “link to everything” malarkey, it probably makes blog posts “better” in some way. There’s probably a way to quantitively measure that, actually: might be worth a little test at some point in the future.

I also need to devote more time for searching for good links – went for the good old Google Number One there. Great. Does anyone archive top ten Google results…? somebody must be doing that for a “popularity versus time” graph.