design

If you travel past my old blog, you’ll find its not-so-pretty shadow. While I liked having complete control over the blog’s design, my inexperienced fingers tragically ended the life of my unique template. I was frustrated that I couldn’t get the blog to look like I wanted and went searching for some new templates to upload. I found one. Uploaded it.

Not only did the template not load, it messed up the old one for good. (And yes, I saved the html code of the prior format, but the uploaded template changed more than I could figure out.)

Blog design is somewhat like painting to me. In both situations, I have a vision in my head of what I want it to look like, but no matter how hard I try, I can’t get it to look exactly like I want. The one serious difference is that with painting, even though it doesn’t exactly resemble the image in my head, I can make it work into something beautiful, or at least interesting. With blog design, I can’t “fudge my way through the difficult passages.” Instead, I have grand ideas that I don’t have the patience (or know how) to figure out how to implement.

But that’s ok. Being creative, for me, is largely influenced by my environment. And the old blog design was an environment that I didn’t find interesting to me anymore. So, here we are! In my journey to find a new blog host and templates, I was hoping to find something that I felt could show both photos and text in interesting ways. Unfortunately, I found that those with interesting text options, were terrible for photos and vice versa. For this reason, I now have a photoblog too.

I have yet to decide if I’ll try to import any or all of my old posts over here. A part of me just wants to start over. A new environment. A new start.

Filed under: Creativity