For the past two week, i've been scouring the net to search for the perfect design for my blogspot.. now, i am not really an internet-savvy type of person, but i tried to understand how to use it as best as i could.. and so i begun my journey in the search for the perfect design..
Stop #1 - Google.com - naturally, as with everything on the net, you start of course with google.. so i typed in 'blog design' and true enough i got a million or so hits...I started clicking and clicking on the links and i found a few interesting sites..
Stop #2 - blogspot template - i entered this website that offered free designs.. in fairness, i was able to upload the design using a tool that ends with an 'html'... now, the problem was it looked bad.. really bad.. so i went back to the original template...
Stop #3 - blogger.com- after going back to trusty google, i said to myself - "why fix the wheel when it ain't broken?" so i decided to improve on the default design of the blog.. now this one i really really like... however, there was only one major problem with it - it doesn't have any link bars... so i went back to the drawing board again...
Stop #4 - twitter.com - i decided to looked at some friends' blog and check how their design looked like... i looked.. i liked... i tweeted them and lo and behold... i was re-directed to another website...
Stop #5 - template.com - i really,really liked the designs and it was exactly what i neeed... the problem was when i uploaded it to my blog, it kinda destroyed the whole layout and the words 'flicker' kept on appearing in the background.. and as much as i tried, i couldn't figure out how to take out the background words.. so at 2 in the morning, i stopped and uploaded back my original layout...
Stop #6 - website.com - then i got the brilliant idea that i should create another website.. i asked my sister the website expert and she said that my blog was already a website.. huh?.. duh, i couldn't get it.. so i went back to stop #1 and thought about mutlply..
Stop #7 - multiply.com - i liked it for the simple fact that i can edit the colors and fonts of the blog entries... what i didn't like was the big ad at the top of the page.. i mean, for whatever reason, i just hated watching that ad telling me i won something and blinking and blinking and blinking.. and man, was that ad big.. so i cancelled my account there..
Stop #7 - livejournal.com - so after so many stops and turns, i ended up here.. now, for the life of me, i couldn't still figure out how to re-design this page but i have a good feeling about this.. i'll explore this again -- spend sleepless nights-- and hope this is it!
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