My Whole Expanse I Cannot See…

So, this is just a quick post to say… If you need help with a WordPress theme (like I did), hire Alisa Ryan Herr, @isabisa on Twitter. She helped me embed Eager Naturalist into my blog so it’ll show up whether or not a reader has the font installed on their computer.

She’s spectacular.

So, for the first time, I seriously dug into this template’s CSS, and I think I did okay. I changed the blog’s font to the one I use for a lot of my tattoos, Eager Naturalist, then I adjusted its sizes to make things readable. I don’t think Eager Naturalist looks good if it’s too small. I also finally wiped all traces of Italian from our comments form. I think the blog feels more… hand-written now, like a paper journal. I use Eager Naturalist for my e-mail too. Oh, and I aligned my posts left, rather than justified.

Do we like the way this feels, or should I go with a more traditional look?

This blog really isn’t anything good, just like I’m not anything good. I’m really not. I screw up everything that means anything. I’m just this broken, awful, thing. I’m not worth anything.

So, I heard one too many times that my blog’s new template looked very “Tumblr.” I don’t have my own domain name to have my crazy project, this evolving memoir of mine, looking like a Tumblr site. I mean, I know the blog isn’t anything good now, not for a decent while, really, but still… it’s mine, my project. I’ve put years into this place, it’s mine. It’s not nothing, it’s something. At least, to me it’s something.

I’ll try changing this template, the parts that don’t work. The Italian comments and what-not.

So, I think I’ll leave the new look, for now. I think this theme is better overall. The sidebar’s better, the article font’s more readable (I think), the comments page isn’t in Italian, and so on.

Am I wrong?

So, I’ve changed the look of the blog….

Do we like this look or the old one?

So, after trying a new look for the blog for awhile, I’m back to the way things were. In lots of ways the new look was better, it had a fancy Twitter button, a way better search field, but it just wasn’t right. It wasn’t me. Things change so much, whether I want the change or not. Maybe this blog just needs to stay familiar? I don’t know, something was just off.

Speaking of off, my writing sure as shit isn’t right. I can’t let this go, I have to do something.

So, my blog has looked the same for years. It was nice and all, but today I thought I’d try something different. I think things like look a little more sleek and sophisticated now, maybe.

What do you readers think? Do you like the new look, or should I ditch it?