So I’ve made slow but steady progress today in my free time. If you take a look around my site now, you’ll see the colors have been fine-tuned, holes have been filled, my little “about me” blurb on the home page is finished, I’ve added a “Follow Me” area with my social media icons and links, I’ve added a blogroll beneath my tag cloud–you name it, I’ve had my hand in it today.

And as always, I’ve learned a lot. I’ve spent hours today fiddling and experimenting with various CSS/HTML combinations, taking much from the template and heavily modifying it to fit what I want.

I like my color scheme. I like how much I’ve learned. But also per usual, I’m already having second thoughts.

It’s not that I don’t like the theme. In fact, I love the theme. I’m just concerned that it doesn’t convey what I really want to convey in a blog–namely, simplicity. I find that as I get more and more into my design, it gets more and more cluttered and clunky. And because of this… I’m seriously considering scrapping most of this and starting afresh.

You have no idea how much it kills me to say that. Especially since, even as we write this, I’m still futilely tinkering away at the existing theme. But I can’t help but feel in the pit of stomach that, at the end of the day, I’m not going to be happy with the way this looks right now.

But once again, I’ve learned a lot. And with a little luck, some perseverance, and all the knowledge I’ve gained in the past couple days, hopefully next time this process will go much quicker.