like a fish needs a bicycle...

feeling blue

so i meant to comment on my new site design, but i didn't wanna overload yesterday with 2 posts. so i waited... but there were a few comments about the new look on my last post, so i figure it's time to explain myself...

basically, i'd been wanting a new site design for ages, but i never had the time or the energy to sit down and do it. for starters, it's unreasonably difficult to find free templates for movable type blogs--most of the ones out there that i've found are for the blogger format. when i finally did find some CSS stuff, i didn't like any of it, and for a long while, i couldn't summon the patience or the effort to learn how to change format, colors, etc.

yesterday, i finally sat down and started playing with my main index and my stylesheet until i made my new template look the way i wanted it to look. it took me a couple of hours of experimentation, but it was so much fun figuring out what different words signified in terms of layout, what all the crazy HTML meant and how to modify it, and how to put in hexadecimal colors. i feel more CSS-enabled now, though i obviously still have much more to learn.

you know, my first blog style was just something i found online and used without thinking much about it, mostly because a) i didn't know what i was doing, b) it was purple, i like purple, and it looked decent enough to me, c) it actually worked with my main index and i didn't have to format much, and d) it was winter, so darker colors didn't bother me as much back then. but now... it's summer and sunny, i found a suitable lighter one, and i fixed it to my liking.

now we can all read my entries easier and feel all fluffy and happy when we visit "like a fish needs a bicycle." yay! :)

Posted by naseem at July 15, 2005 01:47 PM