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Sunday, May 08, 2005

Template Modifications

Looking at blogs really illustrated Marshall McLuhan's
notion that "the medium is the message". That is to say, with so many people using the Blogger default templates, a sameness begins to invade all these self-expressions. Double takes are common. Question Marks jump into to your head. Have I been here before? This all seems familar. Maybe its just the fact that we all share a common culture, a common bias. Or perhaps, we need to change the color of the font we are using.

Experiment! Look at the template. Learn your way around CSS. Try things. Modify and preview. If the change stinks change it back. One big area that helps is to create a banner in Photoshop and replace the text box generated by the default template.

Make it really your own. Sometimes a little change works wonders.

posted by Axile Himalo at 6:17 AM