In an affront to good taste, I’ve been Twittering semi-regularly but my blog has been silent for over two years. My main problem was that I had become too much of a perfectionist. Each entry would involve several hours of writing, several days of revisions, and then many more days of editing after finally being published. I also had this insane rule of illustrating every post. Blogging became a burdensome task.
I feel it’s important to record my life’s lessons and I enjoy sharing them here, so I’m going to start blogging again as best I can. This time, I’ll try to be more spontaneous with it so I don’t fall into the same rut.
A new blog layout was also overdue. Early last year I started working on a design inspired by the movie V for Vendetta. However, by December I realized I was no longer in a V for Vendetta mood, so I switched to a much lighter look. I also upgraded to Movable Type 5, an experience I’ll have to write up in a later entry.
Please do let me know if anything seems broken.
Good to see you’re still blogging :) Be spontaneous. The world is beta.
Actually, I’m missing the old theme. It was so daring and unique. I sometimes showed it to people as an example of creativity that stood out in the total idea-desert of today’s web design. And I’m going to miss the Weien quotes…
Murphy, I see a lot of creativity tucked into this rev too. It doesn’t hit you in the face with it, but it oozes from every pore.
Thanks to both of you for the feedback :).
Murphy—it’s been forever, good to hear from you! I think I know what you’re talking about. I consider my last theme a blend of conventional, content-focused websites and the totally artsy sort of site that anime-fans design. The 13 themes before that were definitely examples of the latter. With this revision, I went kind of minimalist because I realized I wanted a clean, white background on which art could be displayed and look the same as it would in an feed reader. I could probably discuss this a bit more in an entry sometime.