This is how anal I am
I decided today, in the midst of procrastinating work that I was supposed to do today because I procrastinated doing it on Friday (still five and a half hours left in the day—I’ll finish it), that I wanted to play around with the layout of my blog. I moved the sidebars over to the left, and I increased the width of the posts. So far so good. Then I decided that, since I have this increased width to work with, I really should just make all the images 500 pixels wide, upload them myself to my server (instead of using Blogger’s image upload utility, which creates two versions of each image—a small one that appears in the posts, and a larger one that you can get to by clicking on the smaller version), and have just one version of the file (not the small and large ones previously used). Again, lovely.
But this is how anal I am: A sane person would implement this image-sizing strategy going forward. I, however, am not sane. I don’t like the fact that some of the images will be 400 pixels wide and some will be 500 pixels wide. I don’t like the fact that some of the images you’ll be able to click on to get a larger version and some you won’t. I want things consistent. So I’ve just spent the past hour resizing all the images for all the posts in the month of April. I’m going to have to take this one month at a time—it would take me days to do the whole blog.
Why can’t I procrastinate this kind of crap instead of the stuff that pays the bills?
But this is how anal I am: A sane person would implement this image-sizing strategy going forward. I, however, am not sane. I don’t like the fact that some of the images will be 400 pixels wide and some will be 500 pixels wide. I don’t like the fact that some of the images you’ll be able to click on to get a larger version and some you won’t. I want things consistent. So I’ve just spent the past hour resizing all the images for all the posts in the month of April. I’m going to have to take this one month at a time—it would take me days to do the whole blog.
Why can’t I procrastinate this kind of crap instead of the stuff that pays the bills?
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posted by Liz at 6:39 PM
6 Comments:
Oh Liz, your post made me feel so much better about my procrastinating. I have spent hours doing almost identical kinds of tasks on my blog or website in an effort to avoid work I need to do. Just a couple of weeks ago I decided to re-caulk my kitchen counters and sink instead of grading assignments. You are not alone.
Because we read from left to right this layout makes it difficult to concentrate on the text of your posts. With each new line my eyes move all the over to the text on the far left.
You can correct this by creating some kind of border between the two columns. Either add a different colored background to one of the two columns or literally add a line to separate the two. Believe me it will make a HUGE difference with readability.
Hi Liz
just wondering if that's a trait, my friends tell me I'm a little on the ocd. certainly helps with archiving.
Oh, Liz. It's true. You're insane. :) But in a good way. You know... like Picasso.
:-)~
I, on the other hand, am insane and ALSO a raging brat. So you're still ahead in the polls!
Yeah, that's me. Picasso. ;) You may not have me beat on the brat quotient, Shannon: I lost my patience with Boo the other day and yelled at him, "I could've gotten an iPhone for the money I spent on you!" Nice. Telling your dog you'd rather have an iPhone. If that's not brat behavior, I'm not sure what is. :)
If it makes you feel better, I spent the last few days scanning documents going back as far as high school in order to reduce paper clutter on my shelves rather than do any work, when work was going really well for a change.
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