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Vote for a New Look!

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OK, folks, it’s that time of year again when I get restless about the blog theme and feel the need to change it. Please look at the following possibilities and vote for the one you prefer:

Theme 1 (Inspiration Laboratory):

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Theme 2 (Adelle):

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Theme 3 (Retro-fitted):

Or we could go back to our penultimate theme which is appropriately titled “Retro-fitted”:

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Theme 4 (Grisaille):

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Theme 5 (Under the Influence):

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Theme 6 (Bon Vivant):

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Theme 7 (SemPress):

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So let’s vote! It’s time to be adventurous and change things around. You can choose up to 3 answers.

19 responses to “Vote for a New Look!”

  1. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Number 1 is really nauseating. It’s chilling to see it place second.

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  2. Benoni Avatar
    Benoni

    Inspiration Laboratory has some nice illustration but it’s a pretty distracting design for a blog. Far too much of it is empty space and the black-text-on-orange-background combination is really hard to read. Grisaille is damn classy however, and Bon Vivant is good apart from the annoying curly font. 😛

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  3. anon Avatar
    anon

    Theme 1 is awful… It hurts so much to look at I might have to restrict checking your blog to only once a day 😉

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    1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
      bloggerclarissa

      Yes, theme 1 is a little garish. Just a teensy little bit. 🙂 But I thought it really reflects my personality. 🙂

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  4. hkatz Avatar
    hkatz

    I wound up voting for 7. 4 could also be good. Bon Vivant looks cute but I prefer dark text on a light background. Agree with anon that theme 1 is an eyesore.

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  5. Sister Avatar
    Sister

    Ha! I chose #1 before I read your comments.

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  6. cliff arroyo Avatar
    cliff arroyo

    My favorite is 1, but I have a proven track record of bad taste so take that into consideration.

    Least favorite is 6 – way too frou frou

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  7. el Avatar
    el

    Number 1 is so horrible. Even to read you, I would have to make some effort with it. 😦

    I really like both your current theme and 3.
    7 and 2 are very good too. (Voted for 2-3-7, for all convenient to read possibilities.)

    As for the rest (4,5,6), they are harder to read than black letters on white backgrownd. And the arrangement of posts of 5 is less convenient than one post after another.

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    1. Stille (@aperfectbalance) Avatar
      Stille (@aperfectbalance)

      I like 2, 4 and 7, but anything except 5 and its horrible double-column layout would be fine.

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      1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
        bloggerclarissa

        I also think the double-column thing might get too obnoxious.

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      2. Stille (@aperfectbalance) Avatar
        Stille (@aperfectbalance)

        Double-column works for photography tumblrs and only for photography tumblrs. When one actually reads a blogpost, one prefers not having half of one’s screen space being taken by a different, unrelated blogpost.

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  8. Titfortat Avatar
    Titfortat

    Theme 1

    The mad scientist. 😉
    Perfect!

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  9. musteryou Avatar
    musteryou

    Theme 6 (Bon Vivant): is right for you

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  10. musteryou Avatar
    musteryou

    Here is my new theme, which suits me:

    http://en.gravatar.com/musteryou

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  11. Z Avatar
    Z

    I actually like #1 for this blog, and it is the only one that is truly different. (It’s not forever, either.)

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  12. twicerandomly Avatar
    twicerandomly

    Theme 6 has a nice font, but reading white on a black background is annoying after a few minutes. I can cope with just about anything else.

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    1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
      bloggerclarissa

      I know, I love everything about this template except white-on-black. I’ll see if they can do the same but with black-on-white.

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  13. el Avatar
    el

    NEWS:

    Hot on the heels of Arizona news that one Christian woman was assaulted by another Christian woman in Phoenix because she said “Happy Holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas” (!) comes a New Jersey report that two men attempted to burn down a “Keep Saturn in Saturnalia” billboard put up by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (to counter a “Keep Christ in Christmas” banner hanging over Pitman’s main thoroughfare). It’s not the first attempt to deface/destroy the FFRF billboard since it was unveiled last week.
    http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2013/12/18/keeping-saturn-in-saturnalia/

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    1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
      bloggerclarissa

      This brings to mind a beautiful poem by Iosif Brodsky: “дайте мне перекреститься, а не то в лицо ударю.” 🙂 (“Let me make the sign of the cross or I’ll hit you in the face.”)

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