January 22, 2004
Stripping down to basics
by Liza Sabater
I've been busy working on an overhaul and redesign of not just this blog but of the Typepadistas blog and Radio Free Blogistan.
Take a peek at what is to come for this blog.
It's too crowded on this front page. It look awfully like my apartment. Too much clutter. I've been throwing things out here at the home base and simplifying. The same goes with my homes on-line. I want them to look like I want my aparment to be ---clear of cluttered and everything in its.
Of course, I have a greater chance of getting that to happen than on my brick and mortar life with my force of nature children. They feel a disturbance in the force whenever the apartment is clean.
So what am I going to do with the site?
- Some of the names of categories will stay but others have to go. I feel the need to be a bit more specific on topics (art, literature, politics) albeit, I'm keeping something like Pregnant Pauses because, well, I like it. I mean, if Wonderchicken can have a section called, Politics chafe my scrote, I certainly can have the aforementioned section on my blog.
- I have to find a better place for my ads. I find them at the moment intruding.
- I really have to cut down on the number of postlettes , which means, I have to refashion some of my archives.
- I want all my blogs to be better connected. I'm thinking of just some simple buttons.
- I dream of a house full of closets (I live in NYC, infamous for its dearth of storage space). So, in their place, I'm creating tabbed sections for my blogs, so that everything stays neat and tidy.
Which, btw, has made me think of Martha Stewart. I may hate her anality and her penchant for perfection but I love her for her anality and penchant for perfection. As I googled and found her personal site, I see that she has chosen green, the color of hope, and one of the colors that run through my sites (at least these days). Those magazines are beautiful to look at. Between her, Real Simple and Ikea (yes, IKEA!) and some of the images of Italian Futurist Books I've been looking at recently.
Grock! those that sound like a hodge-podge of influences or what?
I always come back to the idea of decorating a home when I think of designing a site. It's like playing the Sims, only less addictive.
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Say it loud, say it proud!
I redo mine at least a couple of months. I tend to overload my sidebars. Partly because I want to call attention to other entries and the category archives, partly to encourage visitors to one weblog to visit one of the others.
If I ever manage to get my sidebars settled I'll be very happy. Don't know if that'll ever happen.
Good luck with your own redesign.
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Comment by: liza at January 24, 2004 12:20 PM
hey richard!
i know what you mean about the changes. it's like playing the Sims. i always spend most of my time building the houses, decorating them, landscaping. i'd never would be able to play it online ---it would take away my focus from the building part of the game.
as to the sidebars, i'm going to implement some DOM switching for drop-down menus and style sheets, a la Zeldman.
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Comment by: Richard Evans Lee at January 24, 2004 07:31 AM