As you can see, I’ve spent some of my Christmas vacation redesigning my website. I was going to wait until the new year to unveil the changes, but ah well, I couldn’t wait. C’est-à-dire, the virtual snowflakes were finally driving me insane. At first I was going to go for a golden-age travel theme (postcards, fountain pens, etc.), but when I went to the Griffin and Sabine books for inspiration, I came across a postcard called “Fools Mate,” which is very dark and intriguing (as is most of Nick Bantock’s artwork), and it ended up taking the design in a different direction. Sort of gothly regal. And the fact that I’m reading The Lord of the Rings probably influenced me too.
What do you think? I mean, heck. You guys have to look at this darn thing everyday. (Or at least I hope you do.) And do let me know if your particular web browser isn’t displaying everything properly. I’m finally using more CSS–why, back in my day, you had to dig into the HTML and make each style change on each individual webpage–but this seems a little too easy. I’m sort of a web geezer–yes, at the tender age of 25–because after I first learned HTML in college, I never really kept up with trends in more powerful, elegant coding. Ah well, baby steps.
Speaking of makeovers, this time in the realm of home improvement, on Christmas Day I watched a nice chunk of episodes of Trading Spaces. Would they please come do my apartment? Okay, so maybe I don’t meet some of their criteria (e.g., equally game neighbors), but I have practically no storage space. I need Ty to come over and work his power-tool magic.
Oh, stop. Like you weren’t thinking the same thing.
One reply on “Blog makeover”
Oh, Jeff! Love the new site–it is Griffin and Sabine-y. It’s warm and welcoming… yet somehow creepy and disturbing. Hurrah, it’s Count Jeffula!