Macrolog
Version X
Update 16 Jun 2006: This post has pretty much been rendered obsolete, seeing as I couldn’t ignore the itch to redesign the site again.
So I finally had some time over the weekend to upload new templates and work out a few kinks in the stylesheet, so by and large the latest design is ready for the world. It’s basically the same as the last one, but whiter, and with a bit more colour.
On the colour: Gordon asks what the story is regarding the coloured links on the front page. It might look random at first glance — which is kind of the intention; I want the front page to change over time — but there’s a logical basis to it. I don’t want to say too much about it as I want to maintain some of the mystery. But if you really want to know, the smart cookies among you will figure it out (here’s a hint: view source).
Whenever I think about redesigning this site I always have some sort of argument with myself in my head about what I’m doing, why I’m doing it, and so on. There’s a part of me that always wants to scrap what I have and just upload some standard template because that’s what a lot of other people have and they seem to the popular and don’t have a problem with looking like everybody else. In other words, I seem to have a problem with my site standing out from the crowd, to an extent. I also seem to have a problem with setting down; I’ve redesigned this site four times in the last 12 months, in contrast to many of the sites and blogs I love that haven’t changed in years, and still look impressive.
But I feel like I’m convincing myself to change my ways, and the site as it now looks is a testament to this. It’s mostly just a new stylesheet, after all. I may — I will — make a tweak here and a change there, but I don’t need to go back to square one. And I don’t need to renovate every five minutes.
Mon 27 Mar 2006 at 19:18 ·
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This is the personal website of MacDara Conroy, a twenty-something journalist, editor and all-round creative type living in Dublin, Ireland.
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You are reading Version X, a macrolog entry by MacDara Conroy. It is filed under Site Updates, and was published in March 2006.
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