Maybe... or maybe not. I've been messing with the style of the blog for a while, not totally decided to change the entire design yet. You know, somehow I got used to the current one, but I keep saying "mmph... it's not exactly what I want". The big problem is that I have no idea whatsoever about what I do want. Meaning I'm trying two different styles behind the scenes:
OK, the images don't align correctly because they are different size, and the full size version is not full size. But you can see the idea. The one with the white background looks a bit more minimal, maybe, and is closer to what I originally pretended when I was writing my own blog engine. Still, maybe it's too white when you get a couple tons of clean pixels on each side. Maybe I could just "uncenter" it, or even change the sidebar so it's on the left. I don't know...
The black version, however, represents a bit more my design philias. I simply love that orange, FF9933, but it only looks OK over black. Do I want a black backgrounded website? I don't know! Do I? I almost had it with this design, but in the last moment thought that maybe a clear background with dark text would give a higher readability. Apparently this is correct except for the very case of dark grey (or black) background with light grey (or white) text, that actually reduces the eye fatigue. This idea somehow fits on the dark design, although maybe the orange breaks it? Well, it's not in the main pools of text (the articles) except for the links, so it may still work.
I don't know. I could even have both and let the user choose. Obviously, this would mean twice the work each time I update a tiny bit of the page. I guess I'll ask the pillow.
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