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new blog design, aka what i did with my weekend

After updating my WordPress and K2 last week, I found that the K2 developers changed some things in the CSS/layout that made it impossible for me to use my old stylesheet without changing things. The BG wrestled with this several weeks ago when he upgraded his version and I vaguely remember thinking, “I’m so putting off upgrading because I don’t have the patience to deal with that on my weekend.” So I put it off.

Yesterday and Saturday I spent some time “designing” the new theme for this site. (By that I mean, I didn’t do it from the ground up, I sort of broke it down from the top, dismantling some of the default K2 theme to suit my needs.) At first I wanted to integrate it seamlessly with my portfolio site but later I thought, not only is that going to be very difficult because of how K2 is set up, but I really don’t write much in my blog that has anything to do with my design or the CSS/webdev community in a way that warrants it being integrated into my portfolio site. I write personal stuff, so it made more sense to keep it separate. So, I took the opportunity to create a new little logo for the header and play around with a more unique design.

So far, here it is. I’m not 100% satisfied yet, but that’s my nature as a designer, right? The added benefit of it looking more spiffy, besides the fact that it doesn’t look like crap any longer, is that I’m now more inclined to keep it updated. :)