The XL Experience is Growing

More articles, newsletters, and more!

Photo by Davit Margaryan on Unsplash

It has been fun, and it still is – and it has grown! So far, 45 articles have been put there, along with a clever mechanism for marking what you want to read later, share with others, or collect for some other reasons.

And newsletters have been added!

My little sanctuary will also get photos, but later, and it will get many more articles – so far, I have planned to move around 200 to there, which will take a bit of time. Plus write many new ones, of course.

Some additional information, not as articles but as static pages, is beginning to take shape too. Such things that it can be nice to know when otherwise being submerged into reading. And some links to practical places to know.

When building a website, suddenly all kinds of additional things must be done, apart from writing the articles: cookies must be handled, and the site must be registered with Google, from where all the other search engines get their data.

Trying to make the first few people go to the site and read something there, is a task in its own right, and it is much more difficult now than it was years ago, before social media monopolized the attention of people.

The exact shape and size of everything needs my attention, along with which colors to use, how to ensure that it all works and looks good on both a computer and a smartphone, and that also Google finds it usable, because, otherwise, they will not show it in the search results.

Well, lots of practical, technical things, plus marketing, and the decisions to make about what exactly the site should deliver to its users. What is valuable?

But, so far - All of Life XL is there, it works, most links and features there work (even though a couple not yet, and a couple others just in a diminutive way, for a start).

The first newsletter has been published and can be read online, if you didn’t get it in your email:

Weekly Life XL

And from the website, you can get your own subscription to it.

Another new article, next to those mentioned in the newsletter, is:

Photography in the 2020s – an Overview

Detail from the front page at All of Life XL

The work continues, and more stuff will be added, the details fixed where needed, and, along the way, as mentioned, photos will be added, as a supplement to the articles, to allow for some stress-free time in an environment that you don’t need to leave while using it, and which will not pop up with all kinds of disturbances along the way.

You can read articles without registering, but using the bookmark feature does require it. Newsletters don’t need registration on the site, either – they have their own lists of subscribers.

Oh, and even though the photo for this post indicates a checkout desk, there isn’t any! You’ll pay absolutely nothing for using the site¹. Ah, that is, you’ll probably pay attention to the great stuff there, but that’s on your own account ;)

You are welcome to drop in now and then and let me know what you think.

I have removed the comments section from the articles themselves, to allow for an undisturbed reading experience, but I may add something else, more discrete, when I have made up my mind up about what it should be. Until then, please just talk to me here, on Moments of Life, or send me a message through the site’s contact form.

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Btw., I have used an AI agent for some of the design work and some of the text elements on the site itself – not the articles, which are written 100% by me.

Most of the AI stuff has been changed to my own manual style, and the rest probably will be as well. To be honest, I have a hard time understanding why people find AI so good. But it does make something quickly, so that there’s a starting point, and that can be valuable, I suppose.

1. There is a potential for, some day, adding something to the site that will be paid for. Just now it isn’t likely, and the site in general is meant to be for everybody, for free, so if there will ever be any paid stuff added, it will be such extras that only some people would want anyway.