Blog Redesign

Recently I've been thinking about redesigning my blog as I was missing the sidebar that I used to have many moons ago. This probably came from simply writing as many posts as I have recently, and therefore spending much more time with my blog. I mostly kept wanting to add widgets down the side of my posts and was upset that I couldn't. I figured that was as good a reason as any to have a rethink of the appearance of my blog. 

I began by thinking of what I needed to do in order to make me happier with my blog, and decided I wanted to add a new header to the page. I also thought it would be fun for me to design this myself and as such I brought out my iPad and decided to try out the iFontMaker app that I downloaded a couple of weeks ago.

I made the font I wanted for my header, and then moved across to my Mac, getting out my Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet (which I haven't used for quite a long time) and reinstalling Adobe Photoshop Elements. At this point I simply added whatever images I could think of that I liked, designing as I went. 

I then altered the opacity of the colour in the image until it was subtle enough as I didn't want it to be quite so bright, saved it and then uploaded it to this blog.

The final steps were to pick a template (Travel), choose a background from those available and adjust the colours, fonts and layout until I was happy with it. 

So that's how my blog went from this:

to this:

Next on the list: update my About Me, seeing as I'm no longer that young and I don't live in France anymore!

Absolutely terrible at writing a blog ...

So, it's been a whole two months (and a bit) since I last wrote a blog, which is definitely slacky of me! That's not to say that in that time there haven't been things I could have blogged about: there have been plenty. I just sat and wrote a quick list of all the things I could think of that I should have blogged about, and here it is:

There are currently fourteen items on that list, and even just sitting here now, writing this blog, I can think of a couple more that should be on there too. Maybe my new year's resolution this year should have been to be better at writing my blog! Who's to say that I'd actually succeed at keeping it though :S 

Anyways, I will try to be better at updating over here, and will make an attempt to catch up on all the blog posts I should have written, I promises!