Damned Hats!
So, I’m sitting here in front of my computer, looking at the four different iterations of the Chucksphere homepage, wondering “why do they all suck?” Their purpose is simple: provide links to all the sites I am responsible for* and showcase the exemplary ones**.
* As if I’d really want to take credit for this shit
** “exemplary ones”: A joke, really.
The first iteration had the title at the top, with a giant picture of a hat. Beneath that, I go into a short exposition as to myself and the site. Next comes the list of websites in all the myriad versions. Below that are the lists that appear on the Information page.
The revised version decreases the size of the hat picture, crams the exposition to one side so room may be made for an inline frame to showcase any page from my site that I choose.
Chucksphere v3.0 does way with the bio, and stuffs the list of sites in its place. The other lists were banished to the info page.
In the most current version, the side-by-side format has been trashed, along with the lists of the different versions. The iframe has been expanded, so that the pages displayed therein don’t look any more like shit than they naturally do. I even unified the title, so “The” wasn’t abandoned way out at the top of the page. It’s a good, clean layout. But it still doesn’t do the trick.
Then, flash of inspiration! It’s the hat. It doesn’t do anything, it doesn’t look cool (which is what I thought at the time), and it kind of looks faux-artistic and douchbaggy. So, it’s gone.
Cheers.