Web Design Crud

After 4 months of being on the web with this new weblog I'm still not happy with the way it looks, or the name. I've changed bits and pieces from a template that I got off the web... and that's what it looks like. It doesn't look like "me".

I've been wasting a lot of time playing with different design ideas with notepad and my stylesheets, and tinkering with more complex designs in photoshop. Most of the designs I come up with end up looking like an architectural design firms website... they don't have any personality. So, I'm back, once again, to the drawing board. However, things could be much worse. I only have to worry about design, whereas before, when I coded my own blogging system *gasp*, I had to deal with both.

Yes, I tried to code my own blog, and I think I did a dern good job. I lost the files after I neglected to pay my server bills at another host and lost access to their FTP... I didn't realize I had no local backup until it was too late. Being a forgetful, and mighty broke college student is rough.

So, now I'm working on rebuilding the design of the blog from the ground up, along with rebuilding the main site's look and feel. That's all for the design talk...

I learned two new interesting items today. First, that SCUBA, actually stands for something. I never even thought about it being an acronym. It stands for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. Secondly, that the word "sabotage" comes from the french word sabot, which is a shoe with a thick wooden sole. During the Industrial revolution, the French would sometimes throw their thick soled shoes into machines to protest, damaging the machines. Thus, people eventually began calling these people sabateurs. Interesting stuff...