Website Design 2025: What Do You Think?

I’m trying to decide how I want the website design for the new year to look, so I did a review of all the old website designs (okay, Mollie actually did that).

I noticed that Mucha’s “Medea” is a recurring theme because of the colors (JUST the colors; my brother is a sweetheart and I would never dismember him and throw his body parts off a ship to slow down my father who was trying to catch and kill me).

I’m also adding St. Lucy with her eye stalk and great side-eye, and then some Linea sticker designs which we cannot use because of copyright, but that really appeal to me as more inspiration (stickers are here). Mostly I want it warmer again. I adore Joelle’s design from 2011; it was so detailed and had that fabulous mood, but I want something lighter now because I think I’m writing lighter now. So here’s the color board I made for Joelle this time; I whittled my choices down to:

I do think we need to keep the monkey and probably the cherry. You know, tradition.

So any suggestions on how to improve the website (and along with that, the header on this blog)? Mollie and I are trying to find the sweet spot between her professionalism and my need to be entertaining. That’s a long reach.

What do you think?