There were a few things I did not like about this new blog design, but I've fixed most of them.
Unfortunately, I am a know-nothing, near-Luddite when it comes to HTML. As a graphic designer -- and so few of you have ever seen my work (such as it is) -- I stayed away from the Internet and made love with Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign instead. So some of my HTML "fixes" to the template provided by Blogger were not exactly what I had in mind. Nevertheless, I think it looks a little better.
S2 complained about the text font not being dark enough. I think I've adjusted that. (If it's still too light, I can go a shade darker, but this is nice, I think.)
Mainly, though, it was the design of "extended psychosis" up there at the top that was bugging the crap out of me. There was that obnoxious box around it and whatnot. There's a pretty substantial difference in the display between Safari and Firefox -- to the point where the blog title is one deck in Safari, two in Firefox -- but I guess either of them looks better than the old way. I have no clue how it displays in Internet Exploder. Perhaps one of you could enlighten me.
Now, if I had my perfect world, that courier font would be a little eroded and look like it was actually *typed* onto good old-fashioned porous newsprint. But then, all of my blog entries would end like this, too:
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As a liberal and a feminist, I agreee that generalizations such as the ones you mentioned are wrong and do not illustrate your typical man at all. And I don't think china patterns have anything to do with emotional intelligence, although learning to comment on and be interested in something that is important to your partner is considerate.
I want to think that many straight men are interested in having decent living spaces and are self-aware enough to have intelligent and healthy relationships. However, my experience shows too many men live in scary, filthy bathrooms, and have no respect or understanding of the importance of comfortable living. And nearly all the men I know find relationships a minefield of ignorance.
And I'm not just talking about my husband.
Ah, but your husband is so *special*!
He's the only son-of-a-bitch I've ever known to consistently refer to me as "one of the guys." I'm pretty sure it's because he thought XGF was the "woman" in our relationship. (Also, though, I was jealous of his shop.)
One of my problems accepting Gottman's arguments is that my dad was much more concerned with the physical environment -- both in terms of cleanliness and in aesthetics -- than was The Notorious M.O.M. Additionally, both of my parents are ignorant in the ways of relating. So I did not have the typical gender roles as a guide.
And I am a walking violation of gender roles in many ways myself. I've never been able to suffer through the games society wants me to play on that field.
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