Design is important.
When choosing a theme for this blog, I realised a couple of things:
1) I really dislike most of the generic blog themes I found. They are too newspapery, too boring, to corporate or too messy. Few read well.
2) Most theme designs look corporate or newspapery, or they look very personal, nerdy or teeny. Neither appeals to me.
3) Very few designs combine good accessibility with — well, any other quality.
In the end, I found out that I will need a custom design to fit my demands. In the meantime, I chose this design as a temporary holder look.
So, why this design?
1) It is simple both in looks and code. It has little mess, and was easy to edit and adapt.
2) It sends a signal that this blog is not to be taken too seriously, it does not look corporate or professional, which is very much intended. If it disencourages people who look for professional looking stuff, this is part of the intention.
3) It has some (I admit not too subtle or appealing) relationship to the blog title. Which again comes from the street I live in. I don’t really mind that it is a bit tired with Tolkien-thematics, or fanboy thematics in general.
So, in due time, this blog will look better, as well as more serious. And due time does not mean tomorrow, I’m afraid.
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