A Design Question

Posted on by Iansã

Now it is time to vote–on the look of this site. I liked the template I was using except for one thing: the color of the background, which on some systems looked like a nice cream, and on others, a hospital green. One of my options is to return to that template, and tinker with the style sheet so as to change the color scheme.

In the meantime, what do you think of this one? One thing I do not like about it is, it does not (automatically) provide space for my subtitle (‘Writing in Memory of Paulo Freire’). That is important.

Something viewers should know is, it is possible to change the image header. What is there now, I have chosen because it is one of the images I have at hand where I am at this moment.

I appreciate your views on this question.

Axé.

15 thoughts on “A Design Question”

  1. I like this one better because
    a) it is not sickly green
    b) I like the banner image and its colors
    c) the font size in the comments is larger and hence easier on my aging eyes.

    However, I am extremely fond of the skull/bones image and would miss it if it disappeared from your comments. Are you still thinking of using it as a gravatar?

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  2. I like this one much better than the other one. I as well do not like the fact that there is no place for subtitles. The template I like the most has “just another wordpress blog.” I did not like that. So I had to write my subtitle on my image, and then hide the image text.

    This one is much more alive, fresh, vibrant than the green one you had!

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  3. Yes, I miss the skull/bones image, as well. It is one of the things that doesn’t work in WordPress, though. At least, not so far. I’ll see what I can do!

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  5. The template I like the most has “just another wordpress blog.” I did not like that. So I had to write my subtitle on my image, and then hide the image text.

    How did you do this, hahba?

    I have discovered that it isn’t true you can edit the CSS in WordPress, you have to pay to do that. Unless, perhaps, you go to the Sandbox template, in which case you start from very little, but already have left-hand side links, which I dislike. (And it has no margins.) HMMMM.

    Anyway, I had gotten used to the Mardi Gras Indian picture, so I put her back for a while, but I am going to fool around with pictures and try to see if I can size the skull and bones in such a way as to have it work, even in restrictive WordPressdom.

    I have figured out one thing, though: Blogger is better than WordPress because, or at least in that, it lets you edit the CSS.

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  6. I have no clue what CSS is. Cannot wrap my mind around it right now.

    I have a paint option with my picture manager. It is nothing fancy, it came with Windows XP. I can write with it. I first have to make a text box, I pick the one with a transparent back ground, then I write whatever.

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  7. OK, I think I’ve decided to go with this template for now. I like its features. WordPress, has a lot more in it than Blogger–this is the thing.

    I see, I will have to work more with my photo software, which I don’t fully know how to use. I have Photoshop and Gimp. But perhaps the Windows one is the one to use for this purpose, for now.

    Skull and bones avatar, or gravatar, I have a version of it there now, but it doesn’t work well.
    I should make a GIF of it and march it all across the top of the page. I have my computer desktop tiled with it.

    Thanks for input … and, further suggestions are all welcome! Thanks also to the commentator whose language I did not like, but who made it clear that
    the green was very, very green.

    Pictures will keep changing for a while. I still have the skull and bones gr/avatar at Blogger, so it can be around the web in that way at least…

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  8. Nice picture right now! I like color and clearness… is clearness a word?………I am sure you will get the feel for what is best. Good luck, I seem to not be able to. It seems so limiting, so defining, to put up a template and announce, “This is who I am,” knowing all along that you are so much more… (of course the “you” is an in general “you.”)

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  9. Oooh, which was that, the Mexican village on the hill? At this moment, I’ve got colorful Mardi Gras Indians, but they don’t seem very ‘me’. I like seeing the face of that girl. But this is good input re the Mexican village … perhaps I’ll put it back.

    Template blues, yes. But I liked your lightning crack on Blogger.

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  11. Hi GP, and welcome! Biggest reason: more white background templates to choose from. Next biggest reason: more sophisticated comment moderation system. Next reason: there seem to be fewer bugs in the system. Next-next reason: full-on WordPress is a powerful, flexible piece of open source software, which I thought it might be a good idea to start learning.

    What I don’t like about WordPress: if you’re using one of their free blogs, you can’t change the style sheets/customize all of the code.

    Do I recommend that others change: it isn’t necessary if you are pleased where you are. Because Blogger does let you edit the whole template, I’d still be there if I felt like doing my own ground-up redesign.

    (If it weren’t for the fact that I’m getting some harrassment, and WordPress comment moderation is more flexible. Nubian, Free Slave, and some others seem to have moved in part for this reason also.)

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  12. So many people have been making the move to WordPress. Madbull from Cayman loves WordPress. I’m still thinking about this.
    Thanks for the information.

    Blessings,
    Geoffrey

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  14. OMG Nezua, you just did it – I was trying to figure out how to put the subtitle up above the image, and the WP template doesn’t let you do it, then I was trying to figure out how to actually write on images in Photoshop, and then I gave up … I am going to have to work on this some more in the next day or two. Thanks for putting that up … can I grab it and play with it?

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