Over the years I’ve been fairly restless about the look of my blog. I refresh the theme from time to time and I try to keep a constantly changing array of banner images happening. I guess I just have a restless imagination and I like to consider some details about my blog over time. My thoughts about how my blog ought to look have changed over the years too. Thanks for sticking with me, for those who have been around a while.
Below I just tested an “aside” post. This facility came with the Coraline theme, as did gallery posts. I designate a category for my aside posts, just as I do for galleries, and when I assign that category, it uses the aside template. It looks from the test post that asides are just like regular posts except they are stripped of header information. I don’t know how much I’ll use this, but it may come in handy.
Once in a while, I see a blogger I follow change themes, but most people seem to find one they are comfortable with and stick with it for a long time. That’s a reasonable thing to do. In fact, it’s unreasonable to keep shifting things about as much as I do. In the words of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, “I get carried away…” I suppose the fact that it keeps changing will eventually become a hallmark of this little island in the sun, and I’m OK with that.
Of course the biggest change occurred when I abandoned Blogger and the old Mister Anchovy’s blog and moved over to 27th Street. I think that was a good change and certainly one that opened things up some in my little brain, and provided a sense of freedom and the feeling of starting a new project – even if the new blog was to be a close cousin to the first.
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27th Street 
I have my blog template on my desktop and can’t reload it. I will find someone one of these days to fix it for me. Mister Anchovy convinced me to join blogger, it was easy and fun, and you were right. I love it. I never thought I’d find anything to blog about, ha. I don’t know if I would change the design especially since I can’t even manage to keep the one I made originally erp! But maybe one day. The images I used for my blog have a resonance for me and I miss them, cars, mythology and a poem.
Your blog looks great and it’s always fun to see when you change the design.
I don’t even recall exactly why I decided to move to WordPress. Maybe it was because I like the available free & easy template designs. It seems to me a few people had problems commenting on my Blogger blog as well. All that, plus I can’t resist constantly reinventing things. Anyway, for me, WordPress makes it easy to mess about with my header. I create a rectangle in a painting program or PhotoShop that is the right dimensions for the template header, measured in pixels. All I have to do is change the image and re-upload and I can create a new header and get it up in minutes. I also like the fact that stats come with the template so I don’t need to add a hit counter or anything like that. Blogger served me well for a long time and I appreciate that, but I don’t regret switching.
I admire that you change up the look of your blog from time to time. It’s something I have been meaning to do for a while, but a lack of time combined with a fear of blowing up the internet has prevented me so far.
Blowing up the internet would be a real drag. Thank you for avoiding that.