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September 20, 2004
My Mom Has a Blog!
It’s 11:30 on Sunday night, and I have just migrated my blog from the rather sucky though extremely extensible pyBloxsom system to the rather elegant and beautiful Movable Type system.
I also just made a blog for my Mom! Explain that one, I feel like I’m in the goddamned twilight zone.
I had just spent a few hours trying to make this layout, which is nice and certainly nicer than the old one. It might even work in IE. :) Anyway, I based it on this style called Modern Lines from Movable Style. I don’t like that one as much as MovableType Clean, but I thought it stood a better chance of being customized to what I like. I don’t feel right about just ripping off someone else’s layout, though I encourage other people to do it. And I spent a few hours screwing around with this beautiful image trying to make colors that were nice, which you can probably tell.
I thought I had made a layout with pretty nice colors and all. Then I recalled my other site, which had about the same color scheme, though it didn’t seem to “work” as well as this one (in my opinion) does.
Then Mom came online and I asked her to compare this blog to the old one that used to be here. She said she definitely liked the new one better. She asked what a blog was, and after explaining what it was, she said she wanted one. As I was getting her set up, I asked her to go to the aforementioned MovableStyle. She looked at all of the 3.x styles, came back and said she wanted my style, with the Gettysburg theme. In other words, she wanted my barely hacked layout with the default colors. If you want to check it out, go to her blog. I don’t think I caught all of the residual color issues but it’s a good first shot I think.
Later on, when I get bored and have nothing to write, I’ll go back through the archives and make some better categories, mostly for myself.
Update: Amusingly, the large image there is exposing a bug in this layout. I’m not quite sure how to fix it though. By the way, if you like the image, you should probably look at the author’s page about it.
Posted by FusionGyro at September 20, 2004 12:00 PM
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