a little blogspiration
5.12.2004
Changes, changes...
Seeing the new Blogger templates in all their gorgeousness has prompted me to think about a redesign here, seeing as how I put together the current design in about an hour and half of downtime at work. I think the design I did for Holger is a lot more eye-pleasing than what I've got going on here. Anyway, a girl's got to get some new duds for summer, right?
Comments are missing right now, as I'm trying to install Holger's new blogkomm 1.8, but I'm doing something wrong, obviously. I have a feeling that I'm making a moronically simple mistake. Anyway, it's not like my visitors (you beloved few) are especially chatty anyway. If you have anything you just have to say in the interim, please use my contact form.
There's been some buzz about "rules" in Web design. I'm with Keith on this one. Andrei and Didier have their reasons, and the great thing about being a Web designer and having your own site is being able to say what you like and stir people up. We all have our own pet peeves in design, but mostly they're subjective and individual. There are very few (though I won't say, “no”) absolute and universal rules in design.
Personally, I think the fewer design rules we have, the better. Web designers are already fenced in by all sorts of limitations. Hardware, software, bandwidth, client preferences, and user requirements all impose certain restrictions on the design process. Some restrictions can actually be an aid in the creative process, but mostly I like to have as open a range for play as possible. I don't need the weight of “Never use X color in X manner”, or “X font is crap” sitting on my shoulders while I'm already balancing my client's love of animation with accessibility and page weight concerns.
