This post should not be seen as a conclusion to this blog but as a stepping stone to TSV (Technology Seen Visual) so far. This is going to be a reflective post that discusses my redesign efforts on TSV up until today. I prefer dark colors in anything l do whether it’s something that’s suppose to have a light-weighted visual expression or not, I’d rather go with black any day than red or pink. However, it seems a little metaphoric that l also feel it necessary to never be too dull. In other words, l like using dark and conspicuous colors together. I feel the mixture is just makes it RIGHT! It brings out both sides of the picture, a splash of seriousness and playfulness. However, in this blog from the beginning l decided to go with an unusual tone. Take a look below at my first background design used for this blog. Adjectives to describe this background that come to mind are; plain, ordinary but somewhat technological.
From the start l felt it best to approach this blog from a different angle, an angle that l have never known before. This is because l knew trying to be comfortable with other colors not to bright or to dark will bring an entirely fresh perspective to TSV. Most importantly, this blog represents technology of all kinds seen visually, therefore l needed to present somewhat of an eye catching visual which took me a while to adopt. After a while l decided to move to my comfort zone a more dark and earth-toned look. The image below shows how l was shying back to my norm.
I realized a couple of weeks later that l was diverting from my intent of the blog. My blog needed to represent the goal of TSV, so l over compensated by using an awfully conspicuous background.
It didn’t take me long to remove that and settle for what l have today. The journey of selecting a background was definitely one if taken today will be very different. Over the course of deciding what background or image l should use, time flew by without realizing content matters much more. Also, changing these backgrounds affected the font color and style, because depending on the background used l had to change the color used. Images on TSV where not a problem visually however the way the background style changed affected my layout. Take for instance the first blog background used, all images where stretched because the background was much wider than the ones l am use to. I added other objects to strengthen my blog like the about me category so visitors can have an idea who l am. Of course l wanted to see who my loyal followers are so l included that gadget as well. I added twitter and facebook pins to stay connected always and an optional newsreel to increase my blogs substance. My logo is simple and straightforward because l believe the content of the blog already says so much and it’s the readers idea to capture the information given. The reason l decided to stay with this blog background was because it was calm, technology inclined visually, but most importantly the layout visually accepted all images and colors. I’m looking forward to expanding my blog by adding more ideas, hopefully in the nearest future create a website to promote my content.
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