Chasing the Wind

I’ve been blogging for…. um, about 2 weeks. Too much blogging. It’s 1/2 hour after bedtime, and I’m still blogging. I like it. I do it too much. And I’ve learned a lot.

I’ve learned I haven’t picked the best tool for me. I started at Livejournal, didn’t like it. I *do* like Dreamweaver, but it’s not a blogging tool. I switched over to Blogger.com, and so I spent the next 2 weeks learning style sheets and getting blogger.com integrated. Now I can’t figure out why I need blogger.com in the first place – I’ve completely bypassed their commenting ability in favor of Haloscan commenting and trackback. And I’m doing my best to build a new community with links to other blogs and participating on their site. It’s slow, but it’s working. 🙂

So I’ve been reading up on blogging software. most of the best sites I’ve seen are done on Movable Type, but apparently lots of people don’t like the 3.0 licensing scheme. That wouldn’t affect me, I’m just a single author, single blog. I’ve been reading up on WordPress lately, too. And I need to make an RSS feed available (there’s an Atom feed but it’s not listed on this page anywhere). And I need a RSS reader.

Then I stumbled upon this little doodad today:

4. RE:Blogs that have captured your attention – – no number limit here – – hand out some link luvin’s from your blog to theirs
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Chasing The Wind: interesting newcomer. Some good stuff so far, like this take on Michael Moore and the Palm d’Or (ooh, that rhymes)
p.s. to Michael @ Chasing the Wind: I mostly like what you’re doing there, but that background has got to go.

Heh. First of all, I appreciate the compliment, and I’m going to pop back over to Vox (ack! It’s 41 minutes past my bedtime now!) and let him know. And yes, I’ve noticed that *all* of the blog’s I’ve visited are on easy-to-read backgrounds. That hasn’t been lost on me. I still like the background I have, but it’s too much. I was going to switch to a solid light blue background and just use the swirly backgroung for trim (sort of the way the left side column looks now), but several friends told me in person that they like the swirly background. That gave me deer-in-the-headlights indecision, and I haven’t done anything with it since.

They don’t have a blog, Mr. Miss “Vox” B Kennelly. You do. I’ll make it a priority to make a decision soon about the overwhelming colors. You, see, this was just a whim last month…

What do the rest of you think? Lose the background? Keep it? Replace it with cute little puppy dogs?