Design | 15/06/06 - 14.29 |
Yes, I’d call it “design”. At a push anyway.
Why is your blog ugly?
Because I made it that way. I provide readers with full RSS feeds for posts and comments. There is never any need for users to visit the site. They can apply whatever themes they like to the feed once they get it off the site.
That doesn’t answer the question. Why did you make it ugly?
I used to have a beautiful theme, Blue Horizon if you want to go and track it down. But I found that reading over my own posts when checking for spelling errors and the like was a very poor experience. The text was small, most of the page was wasted, it had novelties like tags, bookmarks, flickr photos and other nonsense. Basically it was not focused. I still use the very same theme I just removed the whole of the CSS file to replace it with:
body { margin-left:25px; margin-right:25px; font-size:16pt; text-align:justify; }
.feedback {border-bottom:1px black solid; padding-bottom:10px; }
img { margin:10px; }
I also deleted a few things I didn’t need anymore, but that was it. Simplicity. And I find it much easier to read now. I can see which links I have clicked (they go an ugly purple), I can see the links a mile off (they are bright blue), and I can see the text a mile off, it is pleasantly large. It is functional. I don’t care if you think it is ugly or even if it is ugly. This blog is all about the content, and like I say full feeds are available if you prefer something a little more pretty.