Redesigning the Blog

As part of the redesign efforts of this blog, I included a personal banner at the top of my blog site to serve as an identifier for other viewers. I consider this banner to be only preliminary, eventually perfecting it as I develop more skill in the use of GIMP and other similar programs. However, what I have chosen so far was based on the overall color palette of the entire blog (which is primarily black, and degrees of blue, green, and purple), as well as the intent of my blog. The font style I chose is called "OCR A Extended", which I found appropriate for my technology-oriented blog as it reminds me of the digital numbers on a clock, weighing machine, or computer, and is also the same font used for many a computer program scripts.

I also made some changes to the template CSS to move it away from the "standard" Blogger templates that make your blog look like thousands of others online. This included changing font styles (bolding most of them for the sake of readability), changing colors of backgrounds, and changing font colors. I also decided to include a picture of myself in replacement of the NJIT logo to make it more personalized.

The colors I chose were mainly to enhance the readability of the blog and the overall look. I felt that bright (though not too bright, like neon) against a black background would give a more contemporary and professional look, without being a distraction and inappropriate as some other colors might (like neon pink).

As you can see below, the changes are fairly extensive. Once I become more accustomed to CSS, I hope to make changes to the lay-out as well in the near future. I find this latest version of the blog more favorable and pleasing to the eye, as compared to the standard gray, white, and crimson template that can easily be found on other blogs: