Let’s address the elephant in the room, shall we?
You might have noticed some things are a bit wonky around here: blurry images, a variety of image sizes within posts, duplicate images. The reason is that about three weeks ago I switched to new WordPress theme. If you’re not familiar with themes, they are a framework which your images and text fit into to make up a website. Each theme requires customization in order to make everything work together harmoniously. But in this case, I very hastily decided to switch my theme and I haven’t taken the time to update the content to fit the framework yet. So, for the time being, the issues are:
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All in all, I feel like a really bad designer for allowing these issues to remain. The me of five years ago would have stayed up all night fixing the issues lest I face the embarrassment of such a public travesty. But considering that I’m not actively looking for design work, I suppose I don’t mind so much. In a way, perhaps it is a sign of maturity that I’m able to let this go for a while and just work on it at my own pace.
This new theme has a lot of great features which I’m looking forward to adding, including animated images which sweep in from the left or right of the screen and large header images at the top of pages which then “swoop down” into the content. They’re really cool features but I just haven’t decided how to make them work for me yet. The new theme also allows for gallery slideshows within blog posts and has some cool styling features for quotes and lists.
Some other upcoming improvements to the Dionne Design website:
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So there are many thought percolating and some changes on the horizon… stay tuned!
In addition to the design, I also did a mini logo redesign in January… and now I’ve done one all over again. I liked the stylized D’s of the first logo but, in the end, I just appreciated the simplicity of the italicized words with some slashes next to them. I also really wanted to add some color to the logo so I played around with some different things and ended up with what I thought of as sortof a punchy red but now I think I have to admit its hot pink. I never would have thought that hot pink would be my “thing” but it’s certainly a bold and positive color and that’s something I can appreciate.
I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who visits this site and blog. I know it’s a mish-mash of ideas and photos and art etc, but I hope that each of you are able to find something to appreciate and enjoy. A very sincere thank you for stopping by from time to visit me at this little outpost of the internets! :)
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