Refreshing!

Now I know you’re picturing cocktails on the beach, but that’s not the kind of refreshing I’m talking about. I’m talking about digital refreshing which is much more exciting (although possibly less relaxing!). I’ve given Perfect Chaos an overhaul; ladies and gentlemen — we have a brand new theme.

It’s coming up to 3:30am here in London, which is such a silly time that I’m unsure whether it’s night or morning. I do know that it’s an odd time to be publishing a blog post, but I’m excited to share the redesign with you, so what the heck (we’re all on lockdown hours after all, one of you must be awake).

I’ve gone for a more colourful look with this blog refresh and the background is dark as opposed to the very light colour scheme I was using with the Maxwell theme. The general feel of the site (to me, anyway) is that it leans more to being a website than a blog, although the blog is still central, of course.

Because it feels more like a website than a blog I’ve made a couple of changes accordingly. One is that I’ve taken the word ‘blog’ out of the tagline, and the other is that I’ve changed the default domain name to perfectchaos.org rather than perfectchaos.blog (all links with .blog in them still work perfectly fine, they just redirect to the .org domain. Such is the luxury of having two domain names registered!)

To coincide with the refresh I need to talk about my favourite (and your favourite) subject: comments. With the previous version of the blog I had started closing comments on almost every post, because I found reading certain comments from certain people very depressing. I know that I have to ‘be the duck’ (as my friend David said I must) and not let it get to me, but something about the digital age has made me more defensive and less patient. I’m going to try to change this, so will be allowing comments for every post. Every comment will still be moderated and I probably won’t reply to them all, but I’m fully aware of the frustration it causes when someone wants to share their feelings and can’t, and it really is an honour that anyone feels the urge to comment on my writing, and I really don’t want to lose anyone. On the other hand, I ain’t willing to be no punch bag, so we’ll have to see how it goes. Leave me lots of positive encourgement, that’ll help!

Okay I’ll shut up now because I’m worried this post is too self-indulgent and perhaps no one cares that I’ve refreshed the design of my blog. But I know I love checking out what other bloggers are up to with the design side of things, so I hope this post is of interest to someone. Definitely take a look around and leave me a comment and let me know what you think. As long as you don’t hate it, if you do then just go back to sipping your margarita!

You’re not going to believe this but my ‘a’ key has just started jamming. I’ve got one of the MacBooks with the sticky key problem (Apple offer a free replacement keyboard but…. lockdown) and I’ve actually been thinking about selling this laptop and getting an M1 MacBook Air or possibly just an old 12 inch MacBook because writing doesn’t require as many bells and whistles as, say, video editing. Although actually, I do that as well. I don’t know, it’s late, forgive me.

I hope you appreciate the hard work that has gone into the refresh. It’s not perfect and I still have a fair amount of tweaking to do, but most of the important bits are in place so I feel confident sharing. Wishing you all a wonderful, peaceful Sunday, and thank you for reading.

Click here to visit the new Perfect Chaos!