Jep, I understand every single one of those sentiments C:
How do you change the status of artwork so that it doesn't show up on search engines?

Good luck with your new portfolio, if you have a page up, drop me a link via the notes and I'll add you to my feedreader C:

You change the rating from "General" to "Mature" or "adult". It won't show up without an account, therefor it won't show up in a search request. As long as you don't put your username in the description, that also helps cut down the likelihood of it turning up in a search engine. I'm being cautious here. I just don't want animal porn to turn up on a search for someone who does animal rescue/welfare stuff (which is more important to me than stupid drawings depicting fictional situations that do NOT reflect my actions or relationships with animals). Most people don't understand that idea of "just because I draw it doesn't mean that I do it" kind of thing.

I'm rambling here.

So can you explain RSS feeds or the benefits or a dummies guide to why I should make a page that allows RSS feeds? Do you also know anything about tumblr or blogspot? I feel so behind on technology these days :(

sigh, reply didn't work.. again.. the comment is down below -.-)

Oh, forgot, I have no clue how exactly to install an Rss feed, but depending on the page you'll surley find a guide on google.

Ah ok, thank you C:

Rss feeds (I use Feedreader, my friends use RssOwl but I guess the prog doesn't matter) - you add hompages or sites, the feeder scans those regularily and you get an automatic message once a site is updated. That is especially useful if you follow sites that update rarley and it cuts out time where you just sit in front of the screen, checking if your fav. webcomic has uploaded or if your fav. channel on youtube has a new video. Blogspot, tumblr, flickr and many other sites usually have already an rssfeed.

Blogs and tumblr are a similair concept.
Blogspot/blogger is usually a nice spot for pictures and (longer) text, it's good for somewhat less frequent updates. Things can be easily categorized, archived and tagged.
Tumblr is younger, it's something like a mix of blogger and twitter and social sites. Updating is easier, picture and message stream is really fast, own art is usually mixed with other things, pictures of other people can be shown on your own site. The comments, if you get some at all, are usually short. Discussions are possible but it often breaks the tabs, it isn't meant for any meaningful communication. There's a lot of user/friend interaction, friends can even ask anonymous questions that you can answer.
(I somewhat dislike tumblr and prefer blogspot, can you tell?).
Blogspot are usually galleries or written stuff which appeals to older people (over 20, there are a lot of working professionals on there too), tumblr is usually more the younger crowd, around 16 till up to 25 with a lot of online friends.
Both sites can be customized but they come with all different skins which is just fine.

Here are some blog examples:
http://johnhendrix.blogspot.com/ (an artists blog)
http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/ (all kinds of things)

and a tumblr example:
http://qodi.tumblr.com/ (gallery of an artist, one of the few people who doesn't relink other peoples art)
http://samehat.tumblr.com/ (collection of odd japanese art)

Thank you so much for typing this stuff out. It definitely helps me think about this in a clearer way. :)

How is your life going lately? Finishing up with your degree?

The degree will soon be over, it won't take too long, I'll get my degree end of June.
Do you have any plans or are you also super busy with school stuff?