Does This Layout Make My Blog Look Fat?
Or to be more precise, tacky?
I’ll be the first to admit that I do. not. know. when to stop. With anything. Or perhaps I do know, but choose to conveniently ignore it. Either way, once I start ~*embellishing*~ I lose track a wee bit and by the time the glitter clears, all sense of perspective is gone.
Is this – all this redecorating – too much? Honestly now.
I know blogs with graphics are sooooo passé, but I am sooooo bored with the minimalist look and besides, I’m a tarot reader, not a trendsetter. And to Hel I guess with how it looks on mobile devices; there are simply too many variables. My needs > performance. Site views have plummetted with WordPress’ futzing as it is – it’s not as if I’m doing much more damage.
Still busy with a lot of housekeeping stuff – oh if I knew then what I know now… reformatting practically every post (currently at Dec. 2010) and finding it a significantly less excrutiatingly embarrassing walk down memory lane than I thought – but hopefully at the end it will be as “me” as a free theme can be.
For the next couple of weeks at least 
ETA: Brace for rapid-cycling visual ID crisis.
I like it. I wish I knew how to create a spiffy background like that.
I like it. Also, for some reason I am no longer getting emails when you post a new blog entry! >_<
Also, I really like your new little photo/bio in the footer. Super cute! ;D
Thanks! An oh, that reminds me – I need to add the source to the credits (it’s from a flash dress-up doll creator). The blurb is my old one; I want to come up with something a little more up-to-date that will still magically fit in that tiny space ha ha!
Quelle surprise. Just another glitch in a long line of them *grrr*
I love minimalism in art and poetry but when it comes to blogs, no. I like some colour and visuals, myself. So keep that glitter gun primed!
Merci
Be careful what you ask for… MUAH HA HA HA HAAAAA!!!
Hmm!! It definitely doesn’t look bad that’s for sure. I’m bored of minimalism too – for me a blog should be clean and easy to read, but visual too. Blogs with graphics are passe? It’s safe to say I missed that memo
This definitely not too much – the colours of the background don’t clutter the space at all they just make what’s in between look more interesting. I do wonder how ‘you’ it is – as someone who does’t know you at all but has formed an idea of you in my mind based on your blog posts, it doesn’t quite feel *you*, even though I think visually it’s really nice. I think you’re a little bit more out there than this, and a little bit more intelligent. (Please don’t ask me how this translates into a blog theme!) Maybe it’s the colours…it feels a lot like The Sun rather than The Moon…and you are SO much more Moon!
How did you make the background? I like the reading cloth + cards + scattered scraps idea…but I think you could physically create something really nice yourself using your own cards and fabrics etc…something that looks very tactile. Same for a header. The letterpress title looks good but a bit too trendy somehow (and I don’t think it fits with the font of the blog content/links/headers)…and the photos are possibly a bit too literal when the blog is titled so? There again it’s actually really nice to see the sea. So I don’t know what I’m talking about.
It’s hard with free themes! I personally dislike WordPress sites (as much from behind the scenes as from out front) but you can do some cool things if you have the know-how…looks like you do. I’d say don’t worry at all about redecorating – if you wanna change things then that’s totally cool and getting geeky with projects like this is SUPER fun IMO. I just reckon you can be a bit cleverer and reflect more you-ness.
Hope this isn’t too much or too critical – bottom line is it’s really nice, fresh and clean and not at all OTT, distracting or anything so don’t worry about that
PS Ooops, that should say I dislike WordPress itself not WordPress SITES – apologies all users of WP!!
Heh heh heh… I think you’re safe from a take-down
I should look at Posterous again, just for interest’s sake.
Oh CRAP – Posterous goes dead on April 30th :C Where are you moving to??
I know right?!?!? Gutted. I’m moving to WP…I really didn’t like it but have shifted most of it now, it’s here: http://littleredtarot.wordpress.com/
But anyway MUCH more exciting than this, your blog now looks AMAZING. I really really really like it like this. I know perhaps it leans towards the minimalism you mentioned before but I honestly think this layout is just clean, good design, and your header is lovely too. Love it.
Awwww, thank you (and glad to still have you around, even if it’s crappy WP ;D – like _your_ layout, BTW) It is minimalist, but there’s enough colour and… “design” that it feels comfortable. I guess the first run was like when you cut all your hair off in the bathroom; this one is after you’ve been to the hairdresser to get it evened out ha ha!
You know, I think Little Red makes some really good points about this not feeling quite “you”. In some sense, it does, but it also feels a bit off. I don’t know why I didn’t say this the first time around, but I did feel it initially.
I’m on it! Pink and sparkles in 3… 2… *HEE*
Thank you for the constructive criticism _and_ your honesty. You make some good points and some that make me giggle (for the right reasons). I was trying to make it look a bit like how my real journal would look – if I could ever get myself into journaling – all mixed media and lots of paper scraps. It is SO hard to do anything truly creative within the limited space confines of the theme! I don’t have a camera (other than the phone, which doesn’tt ake the kind of hi-res images you need for design), so I’m limited to what I can find in free stock.
Like what you said about the “Sun” vs the “Moon”; the other suitable fabric stock I found has a moon print
I’ll just make
2278 layouts and rotate them. Right??Well the template thingy has been messed up on my (dinosaurishly) old Mac since last time you switched things, so I usually look at it on the other one, the (shudder) PC laptop. (that of course is my problem, not yours.) I am rather astonished however at the criminal lack of glitter here, girl. That’s definitely NOT YOU.
Really though do what thou wilt et cetera.
See, that’s part of the problem – each time they (WP, Blogger, everyone else) make upgrades, they assume everyone has the lastest tech, which renders things useless on older systems. I used to work in the industry, so I understand how impossible it is to have perfect functionality across all platforms, but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating.
So I have two votes for MOAR glitter, specifically, AND an invocation of Crowley – that’s practically a declaration of war. Duly noted.
Love love love LOVE the *new* look. Feels so much better. ;D
Absolutely. It’s got enough “sea” without being too obvious and I’m really feeling the purple tones right now.
It’s amazing. Not tacky–although I don’t necessarily have a problem with tacky. Mwah!
LOL. The previous rework was a lot more… yellow – Canadian in the middle of winter, I guess
You’re Canadian?
Immigrant; been here 11.5 years now. Originally a Saffer, so I’m still more Brit than ‘Murican ;D
Just looked at the header again and it’s absolutely brilliant. Ace!
Merci! The Princesses came together really nicely and I feel like they capture the different aspects of the PsS – and myself – so well.