posted 2007/02/07 at 15:31
So, those of you reading this entry on the .org have undoubtedly noticed by now that I finally put the Google ads on the Website like I said I would. Again, I can't say that I'm entirely happy about doing this, but as long as my employment situation is up in the air I figure I should do whatever I can to make a few extra cents here and there.
There is one problem, though, which is that I really can't find a way to integrate the ads into my present site design all that well. I made a couple of tweaks to the design of the .org last night after I put the ads up, but I still think the ads look a bit awkward where they are right now.
Between this and the fact that I can't seem to edit my old archive index page on Blogger -- likely because Blogger recently changed its proprietary formatting and I'm still using the old formatting -- it's looking more and more like I'm going to have to do a redesign of the .org soon. Granted, I haven't done a real redesign here in at least four years, which in Internet years is, oh, forever, but not only am I worried that I might end up breaking my Website the moment when the companies I've applied to work at start poking around my Website (leaving them with a bad impression of me), but I still really like the old design.
Although the design of the .org looks kind of outdated right now, I still like how functional it is. I was never able to get the graphics exactly as I'd like them, but I really like how I got the colour scheme to work, and I like how I'm able to squeeze all the various sections of the Website into the top and side menu bars. The colours and designs also all hold various personal meanings for me, although most of them have to do with my hippie-dippie airy-fairy new age thinking that I'm sure most of you don't want to read about.
I do have a new design kind of sketched out in my head right now, but getting it onto the screen here will likely be a problem, especially since I've had maybe one Website design project in the past few years. I really don't like how I let my Internet and tech skills deteriorate in the later years of my college education, but I had to make my education my top priority. I'm hoping I can get the redesign done fairly soon here, but I don't want to make any guarantees on that front, either. I just hope I can re-learn CSS formatting quickly.
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