Skip to content

ara pehlivanian

Web Standards, Web Culture, Web Everything.™

Yes it’s ugly. Yes I’m working on it.

So, when I first moved from Blogger to my own domain, I said that I’d be doing a live redesign and that everyone would be able to see all of my mistakes as I went along. Well, it’s an eyesore, I know and you’re witnessing it. Actually, this is what happened. I was stuck in the default WordPress template and I wanted out. I wanted full control over the look and feel and I did managed to lay everything out well enough, but then I got caught up in NaNoWriMo and everything stopped. I added a few touches here and there (like color) but because it was rushed I ended up with the atrocity you see in front of you.

Well, NaNoWriMo’s taken too much of my time, and I’ve fallen too far behind to catch up now so I’m going to concentrate on putting together a half decent design instead of killing myself trying to write 1600+ words a day. It will take time because I don’t want to rush, and in order to avoid the panic that usually comes from a “live” redesign—oh that sucks, okay quick fix, oh crap that’s worse! okay, another fix, ahhh!—I’ve set up a development server to work on until I’m happy with it.

Sphere: Related Content

  • Comments closed

Buy my book

The Art & Science of JavaScript / SitePoint
The Art & Science of JavaScript

Advertisement

Firebug - Web Development Evolved

Advertisement

2 Comments

  1. Gravatar for ChrisChris says:

    The biggest thing with blogs is content, so don’t feel to bad. I’ve got a few other blogs I’m running with default templates. Focus on good content and get to the design when you have the time (words of wisdom from yours truly). Hehe.

  2. Gravatar for AraAra says:

    Chris: I agree. I’m trying to work on consistently publishing quality content, but I did remove the gawdy yellow gradients on the post backgrounds and replaced them with gray. I find it works better.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

Skip to navigation

More stuff by Ara elsewhere on the web

    Snook Approved!

    © 2005-2008, Ara Pehlivanian.

    Stock photography courtesy stock.xchng. This site uses Akismet to catch spam (55,762 caught since May 2006) is hosted by DreamHost and powered by WordPress.