Blog Template Overhaul...Not!

Not just yet, anyway.

 

I noticed a few months back that my image slider on my blog header had stopped working. The pictures were still intact but sadly, the slider no longer flowed automatically like before.  This prompted me to comment on a previous post that I was thinking of, maybe, looking at overhauling my blog template once again.

 

I spent most of December trolling the internet, hoping to find something good. Ideally, something that I could use with regards customization and longevity. I even found my current blog template and several comments from bloggers who have likewise been experiencing the same problem.

 

There were many, many templates to choose from. The variety is really astounding. I've tried out a couple but have found that my limited knowledge of customization was blocking me from really experiencing the true greatness of the templates. It's always an issue that the uncomplicated designs don't appeal to me, and yet, they have the least maintenance, which is ideal.

 

In the end of my soul-searching blog template journey, I have found out that although it ain't the best, I (still) really like my current blog template. I haven't had it long enough and so it hasn't really gone stale on me yet. It was just the broken slider that was irritating me and so I set out to fix THAT problem.

 

There were a couple of suggestions but to make it short, I went with the simplest, which was just to take the slider out and replace it with a fixed header. Everything stayed the same.

 

So that's it for now. No big overhaul on my part. I'll probably think about changing the template in a year or two again. We'll see.

Procrastinating Much?

Borrowed photo

 

Boy! I see now that I haven’t been blogging much! Not this year anyway.

 

At the rate I am going (I spurt out 2 posts a month), my posts counter tells me that I won’t even make it to 50 posts this year, which is worse than I expected. Not unless I started shooting posts every single day or twice a day. What does that say about me as a blogger? Waaah! Now I know what a factory worker feels like when they don’t reach their production targets. Not that I ever had a target in the first place, but the count of 25 posts for 2013 is dismal.

 

Plus it’s not gonna help that November is coming up. I take my sabbaticals then.

 

I guess I could pre-schedule a lot of my posts (which I had been doing since the start of the year) but this is also why I’ve found myself in this position of blog doldrums.

 

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not as if nothing’s been happening. I’ve still got much stories to tell, but time just haven’t been on my side starting when we made the move late 2012. Been busy with emigrating and the whole stress-load psyche that goes with it. I’m slowly getting myself back into a routine but it has really taken a lot out of me. In turn, perhaps, I did procrastinate a wee bit too much.

 

In typical procrastinator style, I can only say that there’s not much I can do about it now but only to promise to do better next time. I’ll be back after November and I hope to slowly gear up to my norm of 1 post a week….at least. I have been thinking of changing my blog template (yet once again) and maybe I will use the time in December to re-arrange everything.

 

Got my new life sorta sorted, got my house semi in order…now to zap my blog back to life.