Stylish with Substance

OR ... Yes, Virginia, I AM a Designaholic.

That can actually be one of the greatest things about blogging as opposed to doing some other art/design or getting one of those "respected" jobs. Yes, we live past our posts and forget to check for flaws when we improve because that's the honest timeline nature of this lovely, lovely blogging. That isn't perfect, but at least we can live saner lives and produce new work at a more regular pace.

posterity. (click)

But I suppose what's great about the art of designing, for those of us who do that, is that we not only have that aspect of our creativity put to either this job or serious hobby, but we never have to live with our baby design uneditable, sold, or whatever in a form or location where it can never be touched.

Websites are living, growing beings. (And not just monetarily when they succeed.)

If you don't design, and perhaps now envy my joy in site-improvement - first know that it means you might pay a professional with such spectacular results (and flawless SEO to boot) whereas we amature artists, although yes artists, are more flawed in this creation. Over the last few days I made changes I'd been craving so much they took precedence - I mean I wanted them there BEFORE I attracted new visitors. Silly, yes - but I'm crazy. Yet after I made these changes they weren't right for a while (because business needs do not always mean beauty), and then other established or even fairly-new-themselves elements didn't fit in! Oy. An uncool website.

Second, know that this coding and all the related work brings uber stress. So if you're living fine with your design, know it's probably less on your mind than 24-hour "all nighters" of mouse & keys labor.

Oh and you may have saved money not getting photoshop, which you perhaps somewhat put toward that professional designer.

One more thing to add is that most readers find content of utmost importance - at least the ones who read as opposed to skim judgementally - so if you put all your might to the-now figurative pen, you may be just as well off.

Back to me. Yes, I'm nuts. But appearances need to keep up when content matures or just re-blossoms. And now this is our look for a while (I know it's been evolving all week) oh except for sidebar widgety additions, but classy, uncluttered, simple things. Or if not, they'll leave afterward. Ha.

Now oh gosh what to do about the Facebook Page, another new logo? (Which means updating our FB PG badge to the right too--le sigh.) I still need to brainstorm on how to make our new header design little and square. Yes, I'm fussy.

A perfectionist's work is never done. And sometimes, work doesn't seem to get done either!

Such is a certain kind of ar-teest. C'est la vie.