Honey, I accidentally redesigned the blog! 3 Aug 201122 Jun 2018 Oh well. I was playing with WordPress design templates and I clicked the wrong button. Now I have this rather clean design, but I can’t fix the banner because Illustrator CS2 no longer runs on OS X Lion. When I get a new copy I’ll rework it to suit the size of the template. If you notice something missing apart from my sanity, let me know. Administrative
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FYI, you can run Snow Leopard in a virtual machine on Lion. (As far as I know, that’s legal, since you’re still running a Mac OS on Apple hardware.) Then you can run Illustrator on the virtualized Snow Leopard, though it’ll probably be kind of slow. Two questions: 1) Why upgrade to Lion before checking if you have any PowerPC apps that you still use? I thought it was pretty well known that Rosetta was not in OS X Lion. 2) Why do you even need Illustrator? Sure, it’s a useful tool for professionals, but it’s expensive overkill for a web banner of a blog. If I were in your place, I probably would have used GIMP, Inkscape, or some cheapo shareware.
I used Illustrator professionally for many years. I know it and can use it easily. I didn’t think I’d need to use it for a while, when I upgraded.
Virtually every time I’ve fooled with the template at my blog, I’ve screwed it up. Which is why I came up with the excuse that I’m striving for classic simplicity.
I like the new look. Much cleaner, much cooler, much hipper. Maybe I’ll understand more of what some people write here now I can read it more easily.
It’s very, uh, bright. Light and bright. If I was reading this on something really small, I could use it as a flashlight (you upsidedowny folks probably say torch).
I quite like the nice and clean new default WordPress theme (Twenty Eleven). I have adapted with a few tweaks for one of my other blogs: http://lifesgrandeur.com/