I like graphic design. I didn’t really study it in college though I did take all the computer design classes offered at UTSA. I took as many of those as I did upper division drawing classes which was my major but they didn’t offer computer graphics or graphic design as a major. Go figure.
Anyway, so last week my sister asked me help her prettify her blog for cold hard cash (or a book, as it turns out) and I was like sure! Why not! The world is a better place for pretty blogs, right? Of course then she’s all, not the WordPress one, the Blogger one. And I was like, *sob*. Because I do not know Blogger from Adam. Actually I do know Adam, he’s my cousin. But I do not know Blogger. I know WordPress. Why, I asked her, did you go back to Blogger when WordPress is so AMAZING???? (This was of course last week, which was Before 3.0 which has changed my life! Or at least motivated me to update my own blog template for the first time in approximately forever.)
Because, she explained. You can’t put Google Analytics on a WordPress.com blog.
I run WordPress on my own server so I don’t know what the regulations are for the blogs hosted on WordPress.com. Since I don’t follow my own stats anymore I don’t know how anything works anymore. Which is partly why it took so effing long for me to get my portfolio website back up and running. My coding abilities were tapped out in about 2004.
But these days blogging is really user friendly. Back in the olden days you actually had to code your own stuff but now you don’t. Sure, I spent a good hour of my time digging into the stylesheet of this particular theme that I’m currently sporting because I hated the default font and font size but if you’re lazy and don’t care it was all automated and you have to do is drag your widgets over.
To make a long tangentially off topic story short (oh so too late) I made Abby a bunch of different headers to choose from. I don’t know what one she’ll choose but here are the ones I made that feature the world famous ROBOSAURUS.
I actually like all of them. I made her other ones too but I was particularly fond of these ones. I took these pictures at the Salinas Air Show I attended last year with my family.