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):
Theme 2 (Adelle):
Theme 3 (Retro-fitted):
Or we could go back to our penultimate theme which is appropriately titled “Retro-fitted”:
Theme 4 (Grisaille):
Theme 5 (Under the Influence):
Theme 6 (Bon Vivant):
Theme 7 (SemPress):
So let’s vote! It’s time to be adventurous and change things around. You can choose up to 3 answers.
Clarissa's Blog 
Number 1 is really nauseating. It’s chilling to see it place second.
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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. π
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Theme 1 is awfulβ¦ It hurts so much to look at I might have to restrict checking your blog to only once a day π
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Yes, theme 1 is a little garish. Just a teensy little bit. π But I thought it really reflects my personality. π
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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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Ha! I chose #1 before I read your comments.
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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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Number 1 is so horrible. Even to read you, I would have to make some effort with it. π¦
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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I like 2, 4 and 7, but anything except 5 and its horrible double-column layout would be fine.
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I also think the double-column thing might get too obnoxious.
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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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Theme 1
The mad scientist. π
Perfect!
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Theme 6 (Bon Vivant): is right for you
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Here is my new theme, which suits me:
http://en.gravatar.com/musteryou
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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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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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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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NEWS:
Hot on the heels of Arizona news that one Christian woman was assaulted by another Christian woman in Phoenix because she said βHappy Holidaysβ rather than βMerry Christmasβ (!) comes a New Jersey report that two men attempted to burn down a βKeep Saturn in Saturnaliaβ billboard put up by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (to counter a βKeep Christ in Christmasβ banner hanging over Pitmanβs main thoroughfare). Itβs 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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This brings to mind a beautiful poem by Iosif Brodsky: “Π΄Π°ΠΉΡΠ΅ ΠΌΠ½Π΅ ΠΏΠ΅ΡΠ΅ΠΊΡΠ΅ΡΡΠΈΡΡΡΡ, Π° Π½Π΅ ΡΠΎ Π² Π»ΠΈΡΠΎ ΡΠ΄Π°ΡΡ.” π (“Let me make the sign of the cross or I’ll hit you in the face.”)
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