The Mundling Zone was
created to feature some of my hobbies that I enjoy doing
in my spare time. Those hobbies include collecting unicorn
figurines, collecting mardi-gras masks, collecting
recipes, creating and editing computer graphics and
pictures, and writing poetry. I have other hobbies I like
to work on that are not featured on this site. It's kind
of hard to show cross stitch projects, floral
arrangements, or crochet work when all of your creations
were given as gifts and are not available to be
photographed for display. Lately, I've found that I
like certain items in animal print, so I may be featuring
them soon.
I've learned so much
since I first accessed the internet in June 1998, and I
know I still have a lot more to learn. I never thought I'd
ever have a website, let alone be the webmaster of it and
three other sites. At one time, I thought I would like to
turn this relatively new hobby into a part-time business,
but with recent events happening in my life, I'm not so
sure now. Don't get me wrong! I enjoy working
on websites, but more at a leisurely pace than trying to
meet a deadline.
Like many other
webmasters, I work hard to create, fine-tune, and maintain
a website. I consider this site to be my pride and joy ...
an evolution of a skill learned, practiced, and hopefully
to-be-mastered. I like putting my hobbies on display with
this website in a creative manner that is uniquely mine
while making it pleasing to the eyes of internet visitors.
I walk that fine line between artistic integrity and
public approval.
One of the ways I
determine what people like to look at/read is by setting
up a web tracker. The intentions of installing a tracker
are to determine the popularity of the web pages, where
the visitor is from, which page the visitor surfed from,
and how long the visitor stayed. There are trackers set up
at various places on my site for these purposes.
The results were
astonishing and educational. My free graphics section is
gaining popularity at a blistering pace in comparison to
the rest of my website. My recipe links page has quietly
gained attention as different search engines have spidered
the page into their directories. My poetry section comes
third, with the remaining pages of the site
Like many webmasters,
there are ethics I make every effort to maintain about
this site: I do not create nor collect web awards, I
strive to honor the copyright of any works used on this
site, I strive to post any information in a truthful,
non-slanderous manner, and finally ... I do not sign a
website's guestbook unless I have visited at least half of
it.
Before I close, I'd
like to make a clarification about how I refer to myself. I
am a webmaster. Yes, I am a woman, and the term
web mistress would also apply to me. However, I feel that
to refer to me with a gender-specific title would
differentiate me from the general group that I belong to.
It is appropriate (and preferential to me) to be referred
to a term that can be applied to both men and women.
As I change and
evolve, so will The Mundling Zone.
