As mentioned a few weeks back I’m playing around with my blog and I’ve been quite displeased with 1) what I’ve gotten done so far and 2) the way it’s looking. At first I was going to use a canned theme and I found Elegant Themes, which is a really sweet site for getting cool WordPress themes, but none of the themes I found really worked for what I had in mind. This process of taking what’s in my head (disturbing as that sounds) and making it a reality is not something that comes naturally or easily to me. I can code all day long like that but the artistic design stuff is not something I’m good at…yet.
I should disclose that got this idea from Chris Coyier (http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/25-designing-for-wordpress-part-one/) who did something similar to his site (http://chriscoyier.net/).
Starting right now I’m going to rebuild the design of the live site from the ground up. I’ll start with the HTML5 Rest WordPress Theme and build from there. The site is simple enough that there’s not going to be very much coding so this won’t offer me any coding black holes to run away to for a sense of security, ensuring that I’m focused on the design process and not the coding process. I used Kuler to find a color scheme to start with. I settled on retro blue because I think it offers a wide spectrum of complementary colors to play with. I plan on posting snapshots of the site in the state that it’s in at the time of each post and I’ll try to post frequently throughout the process or at least offer posts with multiple snapshots and summaries of what was going on at each step. This should be fun.
[Updated with photo: Doesn't it look nice. 
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Redesign in Real Time: As mentioned a few weeks back I’m playing around with my blog and I’ve been quite … http://t.co/8hBC1qY7