Posts Tagged ‘order’

I just realized that in order to leave comments you had to register for the site. I have changed that setting and apologize for anyone who wanted to leave a quick comment. I am not a big fan of needing a registration for every site. Thanks to those of you who decided to sign up as users. This blog has been a blast so far to write and I hopefully look forward to more comments now that the barrier is down.

Well, I got the the design up. It took a while to find something I liked and even longer to make customize it, but I have finally uploaded it. I hope that you like it. Please leave comments with any feedback that you may have. There may be some things that aren’t working. To be quite honest I am not a pro at this at all and was able to accomplish this by a lot of web searching.

Something that stuck out in my mind while working on the site was that in order to really focus on something, you need to really want to accomplish it. The most difficult part of creating this new theme was the photo. I had to create it myself and have absolutely no experience with manipulating photos. I have tried working with Photoshop and Gimp before to manipulate photos, but have usually given up because I did not really have a good reason to accomplish it.

This time however, I was more focused and knew clearly what I wanted to accomplish. I spent the extra time to get over the curve and was able to create the image on the page. In addition, I actually enjoyed the challenge. The free and full featured program I used was Gimp. Though I have to admit, if you just wanted to accomplish this type of task (and don’t actually enjoy it), then it would make much more sense to outsource it.

The top image and the bottom image are photos from Miyakojima, Japan and the middle photo from a scuba trip to Cozumel, Mexico.