Blog.Macalicious Part Frickin’ 3

01 Apr, 2006
Posted at 00.27 PST

Well it’s been nearly a year, but I have finally finished unifying this blog and the main graphics site. I cannot express how inordinately pleased and proud I am of the end result, even if it did take nearly a year to get sufficiently motivated. A minimalist design is something I’ve been striving towards for years, and I finally feel I’ve hit on one that manages to skirt the line between spare and stark. I knew I’d nailed it when I reached the point where I could sit back and admire it without feeling self-conscious about it, if that makes any sense.

It’s been a bit of a learning experience too, as this time I’ve finally began to get a handle on Cascading Style Sheets and how they behave, especially in regards to margins and padding. It wouldn’t have taken this long to wrap my head around CSS, but for the fact that I tackle it only when I revamp the site, so all my hard-won knowledge slowly leaks away between fitful urges of site-tweakage.

I held off unifying the two halves of the site for a long time, in large part due to my ambivalence about having these silly ramblings on display for the whole world to see, especially considering the insane amounts of traffic generated by the graphics half.

The desire to have friends and family easily find the blog finally won out though, and I figure most the people visiting the site are there for the graphics, so I might as well ignore that little voice of doubt. Heh.

And speaking of friends and family, tomorrow morning I’m off to the Olympic Peninsula for the weekend with a group of friends. I’ll try to remember and take lots of pictures. If you haven’t seen this particular corner of the country, you are missing out more than you can imagine. Seattle, the Cascade Mountains, the peninsula, the people—each one alone are worth visiting the Pacific Northwest to experience, much less the aggregate. I have so fallen in love with this area of the country, but more on that in a later post.

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