Getting a few things done

It’s time I attack one of the least favorite items on any of my checklists, changing a blog theme.  Sure, when I was just starting out in the world themed sites and blogs I thought it was cool to change my theme fairly often, but I’ve come to have a series of different thoughts on the subject over the past few years.

Changing themes is a pain.  It’s a bigger pain when you have to change it before you’re really ready to, as I’ve had to do in this case due to a plugin conflict.  I prefer it to be a well thought out process with a nice tidy unveiling at the end, but I was unable to do so in this particular instance and to be frank, that irritates the hell out of me.

Changing a theme too often also dilutes your brand and should not be undertaken lightly.  Your visitors really should know what to expect when they stop by, not be confronted by a never ending series of changes to design, layout or flow.  Familiar is good, especially if the experience was good to start with.

The reality is that change is inevitable.  In this case I’m changing to a new theme because my previous theme simply placed too many restrictions on my creativity.  Image and attachment sizes were limited to incredibly small sizes or worse, squashed by the theme’s overly-strict CSS rules. I started writing this blog to share my thoughts, my acquired knowledge and to let my creative side out a little.  A theme that holds any part of that back becomes stifling after a certain point and that’s what happened here.

So I’m asking for just a little patience as I get things tidied up around here and get all the little details put in place.  Everything will be back up and running the way it should be within the next few days.  The new theme (and I’ll let you all in on what that is as soon as I’m positive I’m going to stick with it) is up and running.

Peace. I’m out.

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