Byeol
I’ve been wanting to change Teacup‘s layout for quite a while but it’s just so hard to create a layout and go “Yes, this is it”. At the moment, I’ve got two layouts and there’s major reasons why I can’t bring myself to use one of them.
Template #1 - I created this a few weeks ago and it’s really clean and sleek. This is definitely a winner if it didn’t feel like I’m just re-using the whole “one bar centered” layout thing that I’ve used for Teacup since I started this blog. I wanted to do something different. I actually created this for another project that I had but it become too “clean” for the project and the more I designed it, the more it became very “Teacup-y” style. I continued for another day or two adding the special effects to it and all that. I just … couldn’t finish it because then I had to use it. If I wanted to use this template right now, all I had to do was change it to a WP theme and it’s lock, loaded and ready. I really love it, but I need to change.
Template #2 - This template had the style I wanted because I put in the structure first. It’s got a big sidebar on the left and maximum width content on the right. Totally what I’ve wanted for Teacup for a very long time. I’ve had my mind on a specific looking style for this kind of structure for a very long time but … the best way to put it is that my idea is to advance for what is currently available to me even with Transify‘s help. What I wanted was to have a black background for the sidebar but at an opacity of about 75%? And the background becomes even more transparent to about 45%? However, I need the sidebar background to extend all the way down to the bottom regardless of the content length and Transify can’t do that if I use a ‘faux column sidebar’.
Nonetheless, I continued coding Template #2 adding the colors and some special effects. But the more I force it, the more … messier it is and I’m ready to punch it’s face if it had a face. Like … everything just became wrong. There wasn’t enough padding here, the text size was wrong there and the color is off by a few shades and … it’s just doing my head in.
I don’t know if this happens to other people or maybe it’s just me being too creepy but each layout has a “feel”. Like a “clean”, “spacious”, “grungy” … you know, those kinds of feelings. Like this current one, the strong sky blue on a clean white background, to me it’s got like an “ice-y” feeling. Very cold and clean. A bit strong.
Maybe I just need to chill, right now.
First posted at Teacup.