Ryan McFarland

I’ve been “blogging” about 5 years now. Originally i was manually producing pages using tables and a clean and crisp blue and white color scheme. About that time wy dad told me about CSS (cascading style sheets) and how they could be used to create a style for the whole site. Then i shifted to using Blogger for the publishing of my site. I was hosting on a mitkof.net page. Kevin bought zieak.com for me as a Christmas gift one year so i shifted to that domain. I had been dabbling in some scripting and added commenting via Haloscan. The most recent “major” change in the site was shifting to Wordpress and importing comments from Haloscan. In the last five years there have been quite a few fairly major site appearance changes. The only truly consistent design element in recent years has been my rotating header images. I’m thinking it is time for me to create my own wordpress themes.  I really liked the one that was made from Sharpie sketches that were scanned and pieced together to form the site.  I’m thinking of doing something along those lines again.  What I’m using now i modified from a free theme available online.  With many of my projects being published on DIYlife.com my site traffic will definitely drop.  In that sense perhaps my site is once again taking on a more personal feel.