I'm going slightly mad
What is the thing that drives me mad? Trying to find a decent design for my livejournal. Which is impossible.
Had you opened my journal around five hours ago and refreshed every 30 seconds or so (as I'm sure you all do from time to time), you would have been treated to a five hour marathon of all the pre-costumed designs that lj has to offer. And you would undoubtedly have come to the same conclusion as me:
THEY ALL SUCK ASS!!
They are either ugly as fuck, or completely unusable, or they are half way decent, but you can't customize any damn thing. Who came up with the "page summary" feature, anyway? It's so dumb! And why do we need a list of all the tags ever used, right there on the front page, where people are supposed to read entries??
Stoopid stoopid lj.
And no, I don't even like the one I finally stayed with. It's nice but the text placement sucks and everything involving text is way too stark.
On other news - hi!
I've been busy. I've been working a lot, and I've met Niel Gaiman*, and I'm moving into a new apartment tomorrow, and I'm dating a guy. But I bet that's not as interesting as my design woes.
So. Who can explain to me how you do that thing where you make something beautiful in Photoshop and then you put it inside your lj, and then you choose exactly what gets to go in and what doesn't, and then it's all pretty and just exactly the way you fucking want it?
* PS
I didn't actually meet Niel Gaiman. But he was in the room and I was in the room, so it counts. Even if the room is an auditorium, and he was on stage, and there were 400 other people there. It counts.
ETA: I myself am a little amused with how much this sort of stuff gets to me. Seriously, nothing can make me want to scream quite like design issues can. Those of you who had the misfortune of listening to me rave about "Cup'o'Joe"'s logo design, know that I'm a little bit insane like that :)
Had you opened my journal around five hours ago and refreshed every 30 seconds or so (as I'm sure you all do from time to time), you would have been treated to a five hour marathon of all the pre-costumed designs that lj has to offer. And you would undoubtedly have come to the same conclusion as me:
THEY ALL SUCK ASS!!
They are either ugly as fuck, or completely unusable, or they are half way decent, but you can't customize any damn thing. Who came up with the "page summary" feature, anyway? It's so dumb! And why do we need a list of all the tags ever used, right there on the front page, where people are supposed to read entries??
Stoopid stoopid lj.
And no, I don't even like the one I finally stayed with. It's nice but the text placement sucks and everything involving text is way too stark.
On other news - hi!
I've been busy. I've been working a lot, and I've met Niel Gaiman*, and I'm moving into a new apartment tomorrow, and I'm dating a guy. But I bet that's not as interesting as my design woes.
So. Who can explain to me how you do that thing where you make something beautiful in Photoshop and then you put it inside your lj, and then you choose exactly what gets to go in and what doesn't, and then it's all pretty and just exactly the way you fucking want it?
* PS
I didn't actually meet Niel Gaiman. But he was in the room and I was in the room, so it counts. Even if the room is an auditorium, and he was on stage, and there were 400 other people there. It counts.
ETA: I myself am a little amused with how much this sort of stuff gets to me. Seriously, nothing can make me want to scream quite like design issues can. Those of you who had the misfortune of listening to me rave about "Cup'o'Joe"'s logo design, know that I'm a little bit insane like that :)