Grain to a Sculpture

This stuff is killing. For the past two days I have been ‘exploring’ ways to make my blog look a little more attractive, not that I have lost hope on my writing but simply because, well…who doesn’t like a smiley face with their bacon and eggs.

The thing with this kind of a ‘mumbo jumbo’ is that once you start, there is no finish. Each new website, brings a new idea of “hey maybe I should do this instead of that”. More surfing, unfortunately, gives more proposals, more thoughts, more design plans and more funky way of changing the robes of your blog.

I was actually happy with the custom settings that blogger offered me although as I clicked “Next Blog” and I was offered a blog which made mine look like plain vanilla ice cream in front of a chocolate sundae, like granite in front of sapphire, like Lindsay Lohan without make-up like okay okay you get the point. So I decided that a minor skin change would do no harm, not like I am against such sites. So the first click itself impressed me. This wasn’t as simple as a wallpaper change where I could click “set as template”. For this, they gave me the html code, RSS and I had to copy&paste it to the html section of my my blog’s template. It looked great upon viewing except the fonts, sizes, layout was all too small, oddly columned, too cluttered. Upon snooping into the visitors’ comments, which by the way is like talking to the creator of the template, even better perhaps, I found out that if I “have a basic knowledge of RSS or html” I can change the format. I know as much of html and coding as a toddler knows of the G-talk summit. But no harm trying. So I went ahead and made some changes to the html code which I had pasted and I was more than proud with the results. I mean just by glancing into the code I found words such as “font size”, “header”, “body” “main” etcetera. Spending hours and hours changing the sizes little by little and then clicking “view blog” after each change, I understood the code as well as experimented with it. I knew if I changed everything at once, I would not only blotch the code but it would be like tossing cake on someone’s face, real ugly. Thank god I did not do this with more than probably two templates. I was like a child given a computer, clicking away all day long and smiling more after each click with a “Hey what does this do?” kind of thing. Now let’s blame human nature. I would apply all changes and set it but then when I came back an hour later, my heart would hanker for another change. Oh dear god.

This was day 1. The same process went for day two when I found even better web pages with not only better templates but which included page elements, which I personally am fond of. Ok I am to blame this time for not being satisfied with the appearance for long enough. Its just like wallpapers I require a change, as a new day hits. Here we go again.

So finally I decided to stop straining my fingers and to just pick one, which I did. I customized it, edited the layout, formatted the settings and here is the template which I, oh so dear, hope I wont get bored of. I should probably write couple pages of posts and publish them all at once so that I don’t get fed up of looking at my own blog. But that’s another story. For now it’s duty-free, revolutionized!