Working on a new design
Now that I have a bunch of time on my hands I am going to do something I should have done years ago: Actually design a theme for this site.
Right now I am using a modified form of the default theme for WordPress called Kubrick (after Stanley Kubrick, in my opinion one of the best directors of all time.) All I did was take the default theme and make my own header images. The top of the design is fun to mess with and I have about 15 different versions I have played around with.
Some of the headers were topical to posts or pages (this one was about movie posts and this one was about the music page) and some where just stupid (this one had a picture of JFK and this one was cut out of an image I found online)
But none of these things were truly ‘original.’ They made this blog look like every other blog out there, and while this is pretty much like every other blog in the world (run by a single narcissistic person with wayyy too much time on their hands… wait… nevermind) it is also something of a journal that I decided to post to the internet. Some people document their entire lives, I try to document what I think I should document so perhaps someone would learn something from it. Perhaps myself…
Or the entire Loyola mock trial team, family members, a few random people who seem to enjoy reading it, a spattering of colleagues, people who find stuff on Google/AOL/MSN, people who read it on Facebook, people who forward posts and just about everyone who searches for “ghetto prom pictures” for some reason. And some of it has become REALLY useful. Like a post I did about Vector Marketing and their misleading mail. Which has a bunch of comments from people who needed to search for information about this sham company. You never know when something is going to be useful to somebody…
But such a personal thing can not be put on just any old theme. There needs to be a theme that is kickass and really expresses my intent with this thing. It has been around for 3 years, so I am going to scrub through old posts and go through some statistics software to see where people are visiting and from where and start work on a new theme.
Update: Here are all the headers
