Change Is Good
I like change. I’ve spent almost my entire career as an (admittedly self-styled) agent of change. I still move the furniture around in my house when I get bored.
So, I’m moving some furniture around here. I’ve been playing around with WordPress themes for quite a while, mostly just to understand how the developers put together the various bits of code. I love the elegance of the design and have, in fact, appropriated many of their ideas for my own projects.
One of my favorite sources of inspiration is Smashing Magazine, a fantastic online magazine focused on design and web development. Periodically, they post WordPress themes that range from the interesting to the odd, from the bizarre to the beautiful. And when they published this theme, entitled “Notepad Chaos”, I grabbed it immediately.
I’d love to be able to design stuff like this, and perhaps someday I’ll get there. I keep slugging away at my drawing skills, my painting skills, my Illustrator/Photoshop and Flash skills. Slow progress but progress nonetheless.
For now, having my blog rendered in this theme makes me happy. I’ll spend a bit of time making a few minor changes and adding some links that don’t currently exist.
But for now, change is good.