Once, Suzie and I went to Venice for the Carnival. Deciding to go in style, we roamed downtown Tel Aviv in search for suitable fancy dress, until we stumbled upon a wonderland of theatrical costumes called Arlecino. While trying on some of their fabulous clothes, the costumer who was helping us told me that large men can get away with wearing colors that smaller men might find too feminine. She was having me try on a pink satin coat that would have made me look like a queen-size Barbie-bed. If it had fit.
The costume I finally took was a manly middle-ages get-up, but I’m bringing this up because, well, I’m clutching at straws for some authority to support this new blog color scheme.
I fiddle with my blog design from time to time, but rarely put in the effort to actually do a proper overhaul. This design was based on several points:
- Wide-screen design, i.e, no sidebar, because I. reads (used to read?) this on a computer screen set to 800×600 resolution. Notice that nearly every blog theme you see has a fixed-width box in the middle with the content in it. Usually with a sidebar or two.
- A font that wasn’t Verdana or Arial. Not too many options there, but I found I like Georgia.
- One idea for the full-width design was to have a fixed background image to add interest to the page. The image I used, that horrible picture you can’t get rid of (as G-ster called it), is a detail from a photo of me Aya took with her digital camera. I was mesmerized by the high resolution, showing every prick of stubble, straying strand of messy hair, wrinkle lining my tired eye, etc. I sorta liked the Photoshop-mangled result.
I tried to find colors to match the image, but didn’t like using jello magenta or mucus green. I liked they grey text, and a color that goes well with gray and red is…well,
Pink.
Now, the only people who will notice my blog’s design are people who don’t read my entries through RSS or Livejournal. That is, Israel, my bro, my mum and dad. The first two don’t like this one bit.
I actually think it’s rather nice.
Anyway, I’ve got another color scheme I’m experimenting with, and I’ll probably switch soon. Just not right away, because I hope to lure at least one of the people who read this entry through RSS or LJ to visit the blog and get a blast of the Pink.
