Getting There…

September 15th, 2007 Posted in 2007

Still plenty to tinker with, of course, but at least the blog looks vaguely like something I’d have designed myself now. I seem to have reached a point where, for better or worse, all the stylistic choices I randomly decided on over the course of a weekend, drunk, six years ago are now permanently associated with the look and feel of the site. I briefly courted a complete overhaul, with a sweet gothy all-black look and a background image of Trent Reznor weeping with sorrow, for instance, but it just didn’t feel “Pinkertony” enough. Subsequent experiments with Hello Kitty themes and l33t-style “hacker” fonts yielded similar wizened, inedible fruit. Looks like we’re stuck with the baby blues.

At least I managed to get my body copy back to a simple left-alignment. I realize it’s a small thing, but that boxy justified alignment always looks better than it scans, with its alternations of buncheduptext and w i d e a s s  c o p y; it’s like trying to read something and constantly forgetting how to in mid-sentence.  

I’ve also now learned the hard way not to type entries directly into the WordPress posting page, as it has an alarming tendency to suddenly wipe clean of all content mere seconds before you click SAVE, meaning you get the opportunity to see yourself erasing a page full of writing in realtime.