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I’m working on a website redesign. I think.

I’m quite partial to the Mikania design I have right now, even though I can’t stand the asymmetric side boxes that I really want to be symmetric. And yet, I had an epiphany while eating one of the raspberry flavored truffles Tyler had brought back with him after staying with his family over Christmas. I took one bite into the decadent, and looked down to notice the shocking deep pink color of the inside and how it contrasted against the dark chocolate coating. I was also wearing a bright orange sweater at the time. Needless to say, the color scheme of a new website was born.

Whenever I begin working on a new design, I open Photoshop and play with the color scheme until I have the basic colors and their values. Sometimes things will change drastically later, but having the colors helps me to begin working on the actual design.

I’m also in the process of moving the mikania.com address over to a hosting service that I had signed up for awhile back. I’ve been too lazy to move everything over there, but I figure I’m wasting money on a space I’m not using. And I’m tired of looking at that ugly students.washington.edu address.

Lastly, I’m saying “good-bye” to Movable Type for now. Partly because my hosting service made it really easy to install WordPress, partly because I wanted to know in more detail what it looked like and how it worked, but mostly because I’ve found Movable Type to be too clunky. I’m not sure if I’m going to keep WordPress at this point in time, though. But for now, this will probably be the last post I write using MT.

Update: WordPress, you suck. I think I’m staying with Movable Type. Oh, and Cyberduck, you also suck. Do you think you could crash just a little bit more? I don’t think once every 30 seconds is enough. Maybe you should move it up to a crash every five seconds.