Internet personality Zefrank has started a new phenomenon for the Internets.  He has officially started The Color Wars.  Ze recounts his memories of summer camp where the entire camp was split by color lines…not the racial kind goofy, arbitrary rainbow type colors…gosh! (Always trying to pick a fight aren’t ya? Anyway, he has started the web version of the Color Wars, and I have officially aligned myself with the Blueteam.

These wars will be waged using Twitter and other sites like Flickr.  I don’t know what the different battles will be, and frankly, I don’t care…my blood runs blue… YOU HEAR BLUE!!!!…blue

I chose blue because firstly, it is my favorite color and secondly, it is the color of this here blog.  It would seem a little hinky to be in the redteam or yellowteam or verygreenteam and have a blue site.  It would be unseemly…and embarrassing, and I wouldn’t have it.

Go to The Color Wars site and Twitter and draw your own line in the sand.  You can join me on the blue team or you can spit in my eye and join up with another team.  Whatever man…whatever…

Long Live Big Blue

Hey everybody, here is my new look and feel. The best thing about having a personal site is the ability to change the look and feel at the drop of a hat. On a professional site, if you change your look a lot, you risk losing or confusing users. In my case, I only have around 40 hits a day so I feel pretty confident that everyone will be along for the ride.

There are a couple of things that I like about this theme. First, it appears that the main portion of the page is backlit with a soft blue light. Second, this theme is much cleaner than my last one. I think it will be easier to find old posts. Also, this theme is a two-column layout that is less confusing.

My blog is Wordpress. Wordpress makes it infinitely easy to change your look and feel. There are a ton of designers out there who put together layouts. There are literally thousands to choose from, but it is amazing how many suck. The real trick is to find one that looks pretty good.

This theme was pretty good right out of the box. I had to make some changes to the CSS to make the search area work correctly. Initially, the search button was too narrow to see the word ’search’. I fixed that. I also created the banner up above and made some other CSS tweaks to get it just like I like it.

Let me know what you think, leave me a comment.