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soo.. after a week of blueish greys looks it was time to get this blog more beautifull, and (irony) now it certainly is!
When I started redesigning it I had not a clue where to go.. I certainly knew I wanted it to be clean and usable but was kind of bored of color schemes searching and experimentation and also really missing some design and color theory and principles..
As the time goes by and doesn´t stop (especially in nyc, where it seems like an ultra sound jetplane) the pressure was building on me and (i didn´t really wanted to do it but..) I started browsing the blogosphere world.
One thing that really annoys me is that it is a standard (and how i fight those!) but on the other hand it also gave the power to people with a minimum web knowledge to build their own sites and especially: their own media!
here's how the old blogger homepage looks like (it's a classic!)::

so I just decided to subvert their own look and use it for my own journal, imitating their old homepage color schemes and redoing their "b" logo to my own "r" logo! heheeheh!
Then I created a color table with "blogger"'s color styles::

After that I was imaginaning myself saying that it was soo easy.. though it wasn´t that hard i really lost lots of time understanding the .css file and getting everything straight.
I used some tricks to edit the CSS using firefox developper tools to edit the .css file while updating the blog in realtime (ok.. almost!).
after that looong tweaking time the aesthetic was done and everything was in their right places,
but then I found a bug in my design: when the user opens the entry full text the banner text jumps to the front of the logo.. still haven´t find the css bit of it..
so the work will be kept in progress: tags are missing (and i miss them!) and some exploration of movable type's plugins will be done in the future (if I finally understand how to install them!).
Conclusions?? though the blog platform is appealing for a quick website creation and content update its tweakings aren´t that easy or fast as i thought them to be..
Though the blog is usable (or it seems so) it looks to pretty.. not my kind of style I think.. I liked the idea of making it so similar that people wouldn´t even notice the difference in the logo and so creating some kind of perversion, but the looks is tooo clean!
(..i think I still hate blogs...)