The claw is not my master!

Mar 1, 2011 (about 1 year ago)

My adventure into the world of colour has come to an end. I enjoyed playing around with the previous brightly coloured theme, but after a day or two of using it, the novelty wore off and it really began bugging me.

I honestly do not think my brain is capable of processing too much colour, it gets confused and I lose focus. I should have known better. While I still believe the theme was fun, it did kind of remind me of a sneaky profit-maximising tactic used by some supermarkets in the UK — basically the supermarkets bombard their customers with brightly coloured goods at the store entrance. It is a shock’n’awe tactic, designed to distract and confuse the customer, in the hope that the customer forgets that they only entered the store to buy a pint of milk, and instead ends up purchasing half the shop.

Obviously, this is not something I would like to put any potential visitors through, so I have reverted my site design to something much less dramatic.

Note to self: The next time I think it might be a good idea to introduce some colour into my life, go and buy a new T-shirt or try to take a bit less of an all-or-nothing approach.

Tagged with: colour, css, design

7 responses to “The claw is not my master!”

  • Hanna Hanna on,
    Mar 2, 2011 (about 1 year ago)

    Well the colours didn’t last long. :P This looks fine too though, and maybe peeps will stop worrying that you might turn the #! to a rainbow. ;)

    Welcome back to the dark side.

  • corenominal corenominal on,
    Mar 2, 2011 (about 1 year ago)

    @Hanna, thank you for the warm welcome, it feels good to be back :)

  • Gutterslob Gutterslob on,
    Mar 3, 2011 (about 1 year ago)

    Yay!! .. Papa came home!! :D

    You don’t have to take the all or nothing route, though. Try introducing bits here and there (for important tags or links) if you want color next time. Progressive hallucination rather than outright single-burst overdosing, so to speak.

    Still, it’s much easier on the retinas now. I’m still overriding sans for a pixel-font, though. =P

    P.S I’m liking the new “static noise” avatars us picless (no identi.ca account, I’m assuming) posters get. Nice touch. Thanks Clawnominal

  • corenominal corenominal on,
    Mar 3, 2011 (about 1 year ago)

    @Gutterslob, the avatars are provided by the Gravatar service. It took me a while to think of a suitable image to use for non Gravatar users, but eventually came up with the static noise idea — I am pleased you like it. :)

  • merelyjim merelyjim on,
    Mar 5, 2011 (about 1 year ago)

    Sometimes Art gets in the way of Design.

    If something is beautiful for the sake of beauty, fine. But if the functionality of a piece is compromised by beauty, then it’s a fail.

    You can tell those who haven’t learned this lesson yet because they still insist on using Power Point.

  • bobobex bobobex on,
    Mar 6, 2011 (about 1 year ago)

    Does this mean that you are less in touch with your feminine side now and have reverted to type - my all masculine, hunter/gatherer, bearded troglodyte? :D

  • corenominal corenominal on,
    Mar 6, 2011 (about 1 year ago)

    @bobobex, in a word, yes! I mean no. Heck, I am not sure how to answer that. Is it a trick question?

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