Delve Into Lunacy

Well, my last post was in October 2005 so obviously I took the whole “no more episodic updates” thing to a whole different level than originally intended. Anyway, I’m finally back and hopefully I’ll stick around for a while this time, but don’t hold your breath.

I’m in the process of migrating from HostMySite.com (great hosting but didn’t need all the features I was paying for) to DreamHost.com (holding my review for later as I joined during the power outage issues and it’s currently a mess). In the process I’ve gone ahead and gotten the blog it’s own domain because it was a good kid and deserved a treat. So on the off chance that you were so pathetic as to have bookmarked the old blog.fallenblossom.com address then you should switch it to point to the new address…www.delveintolunacy.com. The old site will still be up for a while while I’m getting things configured on the DreamHost side, but once I migrate the FallenBlossom domain it will vanish.

Anyway, I could post tons of stuff regarding what has occurred since the last time I wrote, but I’ll spare you the boredom. If something that previously occurred ends up getting me up in arms again I’ll write something about it then. So for now I’m just working on getting the site setup like I want it. I’m currently using the Thirteen theme which I really like but not sure I’m not sure that I’ll stick with it. Even if I do, there are still a lot of things I want to change/add. If you can think of anything you would like to see added to the site or changed leave a comment and I’ll take it into consideration.

Well, I finally decided to start working on getting a replacement for the piece of crap that is currently the FallenBlossom site. The first thing I started with was the logo.

I had three ideas going into it: the silhouette of an iris with the blossom on the ground, the silhouette of a cherry blossom tree with the petals blowing off of it, and just a stylized “Fb”. I nixed the cherry blossom one right off since I figured in smaller images the petals wouldn’t show up. The “Fb” I fiddled with but couldn’t come up with anything that I really liked. So I started working on the iris one but was getting nowhere fast with my lackluster graphics skills.

While playing around trying to make the blossom part of the image I decided to go with an ultra simplified look versus something more life-like since that’s really what I was wanting to shoot for with the entire site anyway. Here’s what I came up with. The purple will be what I use for the background color on the site and I like the way the greens and dark gray fit with it so they’ll be heavily used throughout the site as well. I’m kind of leaning toward #4 but haven’t completely settled on the final one yet. What do you think?