My Websites

This list is perpetually evolving and incomplete. Yes, there's a Patreon and you may also be interested in My Reddits.

Placemaking

Eclogiselle: Development resources for small communities.
Pedestrian Coast: A site about the place I live.
Solano Rail: A critique of Solano County's rail plan.
American Home Works

Homelessness

Street Life Solutions: Useful information for homeless Americans and advocates.
The Genevieve Files: LGBTQ people are at high risk of homelessness.
Pocket Puter: Being productive with a smartphone or tablet.
San Diego Homeless Survival Guide: Useful information for homeless Americans. It was my first homeless site. It no longer gets actively updated, but it is a treasure trove of practical information mostly written while I was actually homeless.
What Helps The Homeless: This is also archived and was also mostly written while I was actually homeless.

Writing

Doreen Michele: A website about websites where I write about writing.
Write Pay: Includes a quick start guide for Textbroker.
Titles R Hard: The trials and tribulations of writing titles.

Health

Atypical Cystic Fibrosis
Nutrient Dense
Stop Touching Your Face
Formulary of Life

Miscellany

Comics
I've had a few short-lived comics. At some point, I repackaged Lil November under the name The Cute And The Dead in hopes of someday reviving it.

Last Updated October 14, 2020.

A Lean, (Ever)Green Machine: Website Tips for Small Shops

I've been making little websites to serve up information on various topics for close to two decades. I'm basically a one-woman shop, so my websites have to be lean, evergreen, low cost and low maintenance to make any sense at all.

I currently live in a small town and I sometimes attend public meetings where people are enamored of shiny tech but don't know how to use it. They get all envious of projects and talk in glowing terms about "Wouldn't it be GREAT if we did something like that?!" and I bite my tongue and don't say "You have no idea what on earth you are talking about. You have neither the resources nor the expertise to do a project like that."

Those experiences inspired me to write this post. I would love to help people in the small town where I live to establish an effective web presence, but I really am going to need to do a lot of educating if that is ever going to happen.

Most locals have no idea how to make a website that…

Me. Woodward Park, Fresno, CA. January 2016.

My favorite pic of me that's sort of recent-ish. (No, you aren't lost. As of June 1, 2020, DoreenTraylor.com redirects here.)

Merged

Until a few days ago, this site -- doreenmichele.blogspot.com -- was my personal blog and I had a separate site at DoreenTraylor.com that I thought of as my professional site where I had information on how to hire me to do resume work and the like. About three days ago, I fairly spontaneously redacted all the personal blog posts from this site and set about merging the two sites into one.

Now, DoreenTraylor.com redirects here. Most of the content was moved over from the other site. The only content I kept from my personal blog were the pages called Me, My Websites and References.

I also took design elements from both. I kept the pink and white template from my personal blog but added a pinned (permanent) Featured Post with the same photo from the other site. I also substantially edited a lot of the content from both sites to make everything more polished.

DoreenTraylor.com

Updated DoreenMichele.blogspot.com

I have no idea if I will end up making a new personal blog elsewhere, b…

Doreen Michele

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