Re-construction

After a four month trip around the world, I’m back with new ideas for this site. So I’m shutting it down temporarily.. In the mean time, feel free to check out my adventures!

Site Evolution Part I

When I first started with this blog, I wanted the design to reflect my tastes. I wanted it to be easy to navigate, stylish and sophisticated. It was also important to me to have a very “clean” design. It would not do to have a blog about design when the design of the blog is poor. So I scoured the internet to find the perfect theme to compliment what I feel like a well designed site.

My first attempt, I found the Second Thing theme:

Original Blogger Theme

I really liked the color and pattern in the background, I also thought the rounded corners was a nice touch. The theme itself is neutral enough to be applied to almost any kind of blog, but it has a touch of feminity that I found appealing.

What I didn’t like about this theme was the fact that “il primo” and ” il secondo” are in fact part of the image that could not be changed. I also thought that the blog heading was way too close to the top, making it seem somewhat disporportioned.

I still figured this would be a good starting point and I can learn to modify it to my liking. So after importing it to blogger and fiddling around with it, I came up with my blogger page.

My blogger Page

I was able to push the title of the page down as well as get rid of the il primo and il secondo headings. Overall, I was quite happy with this design, it was clean and stylish and the sidebar provided links that made filtering my blog posts easily. I really liked the fact that all the basic information like my profile was displayed on the main page.

Despite how pleased I was about the new design, there were still a few problems with it.  In terms of customizability, I was unable to specify exactly what kind of information I wanted to display in my profile. I also had no control on creating subpages on the blog, since I wanted blog to eventually showcase my portfolio the ability to have subpages was very important.  The kicker that really caused me to look for another solution though was my inability to get the comments to work. After a couple of hours, I decided the best way to fix it is to find another solution all together. And that’s when I went towards wordpress.

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