I am not a designer any more

After 12 years online, I should have known better than to write “OK, I’m really going to do it! I’m gonna design the hell outta this site!” when I got back from Drupalcon two months ago. It is the 21st century equivalent of the animated shovel guy .gif; If you’re going to improve your web site, don’t tell anyone else about it until you actually do it, because otherwise you tend to look lazy and/or foolish.

Part of the reason I haven’t improved the site at all is that I’m just not a designer any more. What chops I had haven’t been exercised in about 8 years, and for a personal, non-job hunting site I lack the patience to 1) Do a painstaking design and 2) Turn it into a painstaking Drupal theme. It feels good to admit that to myself… as decent as some of my old designs were in their day (and their day was a long time ago), I don’t have anything to prove on that score now that the title on my business card reads “Senior Software Developer.”

I just recently came across the spreadfirefox theme, though, and I think it’s more or less exactly the right sort of theme for the sort of site I’d like to turn this into. Font sizes are a bit wonky in a couple of places and the site name is invisible for some reason, but those are the small sorts of tweaks I don’t mind making on my own.