Been tired of looking at the same dull site for a while, so decided to do a layout change. Was also too lazy to create a new layout for scratch again so instead went the “free theme” route and after three or so tries, decided upon SubtlyMade by the folks at Everyone Knows. Will be making a few additional tweaks over the course of the week to align it more to what I like.

In other website kind of news, still really want to make a food blog. Thinking of diverting my new TV money fund toward a nice camera instead. Wondering if I should go the full on DSLR route, micro four thirds route, or just a fairly decent point and shoot. Either way still deciding if I should just incorporate the food blog into this site or maybe open up sushiplane.com again and use that instead. Regardless it’s still a ways off so I’ve got time to decide what exactly to do. It’s always helpful though to get it down on paper though. Or I guess in this case, published online.

Started off today feeling like I had another website redesign in me. So I sat down, looked at various webdesign sites, got a good image in my head, and pulled up Photoshop and Notepad++. Then after moving my mouse around for a few seconds, I said screw it. I’m mostly happy with my current design and well I just felt lazy. So instead I decided that I’d finally set about sprucing up the site finishing what I didn’t before. Mainly the Comments section needed major rework. It was basically just an ugly list and nothing more. Changed some fonts, alignments, and colors and voila! Not too bad if I say so myself. I’ll still improve it as I see fit later on but at least it flows with the site much better now. Also changed some of the various fonts around the site as well. Also tried to come up with a better header image, but nothing really stuck for me. I’d like a nice little logo involving my initials but it’s a tad hard to do something fun with ‘c’ and ‘m.’ Or maybe I’m just not thinking hard enough. Then I also tossed in a Twitter updater for good measure. So hopefully with this entry a twitter post will come. And like I said before, I’ll probably keep adjusting and tweaking as time goes on till I get to something I’m comfortable with. (more…)

So this whole website stuff always goes like this. I start off fairly strong posting once (if not more) a day. Then it turns to days then weeks between entries. Eventually I almost completely abandon the site, pushing it to the back of my mind where it collects guilt and shame. Until one night that recess in my brain overflows and I can’t stop thinking about it (among other things) and can’t sleep. So that night is tonight. And in an attempt to dissuade this from happening again, tonight/this morning I’m putting it upon myself to do this site justice and update regularly. First we’ll start with baby steps at 2 to 3 posts a week and.. well that’s all I can promise for now. Hope whoever reads this will stick around for a bit. Yey.
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Here’s the quick sketch of what I’d like the website to look like. Hopefully I can do it, but I’m a tad out of practice so we shall see. (more…)