Blog Redesign Update - Mimosa is The New Black?

Thanks everyone for voting on the new blog colour scheme. Please continue voting through Christmas. At present "yellow" is loosing to choice #3 of "Try again dumbo", so honestly I have no idea what you all like and I'm not much in the business of wanting to please the masses - Oprah and Britney seem to have that market all sewn up. But in a very small nod to understanding my readers and being user friendly, I'm not changing the damn colour scheme, yet, but I am acquiesing to the idea that yellow may just not sound cool - so I'm nicking a page from the 2009 spring fashion scene and adopting the pigment moniker of "Mimosa". The folks at Pantone Inc. colour systems call it Mimosa- 14-0848 TCX. Hell, if nothing else it just sounds pretty (without the numbers) and forward and hip and oh so godamnedtrendsetting if you will. To support this choice of nearly a month ago, loyal reader, Freya, sent me the following MSNBC story on next season's hot colour choice, and you're not going to friggin' believe it - it's Mimosa - or baby crap yellow as it is more commonly known. Not ochre mind you, cause that just sounds old but Mimosa because it sounds fresh, with a hopeful twinge of optimism like the world being renewed or ideas of light finding rebirth. And if that isn't enough psychobabble you can read the companion story on Yahoo Buzz. Yes, that's two digital news services in support of this blog's decision whilst their stories were still being written. So we're trend-setters. All of us together - way ahead of the curve, as usual in the Wild Wild East.

For my own thoughts. Black was dark. Black was Bush. Black was where we were. Black was back. And whatever we do, wherever we go, I would much, much more like that to be forward. There was truly no conscious design choice or logic in the new Mimosa. It just felt better. Besides, "Try again dumbo" doesn't even have a Pantone number.

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Yessiree! We've gone and redesigned the whole blog in proper SEO (Search Engine Optimization) fashion to make the most out of search engine's obsessions with colours, dirty words, Obama and anything involving something bad involving Obama. Boy this is gonna throw Google for a loop! A few days ago, I actually ran into a blog that used headlines like the one above because they were trying to get the most out of popular keywords. The blog was just miserably written but had a photo of a somewhat attractive twentysumthing female and a lot of pictures of flowers and wedding dresses and kitty-cats. I almost threw up. I had to purge the girl as one of my "friends" on a particular social networking service. Will the outright shilling never end? She wasn't near as cute as Lonelygirl15.

Has anyone mentioned that the reason good blogs do well is that people like to read what the writers have written? No, not a single SEO consultant can help you with that. If you suck as a writer you just suck and all the technical tinkering in the world can't help you. Or me either.

But I've done something I hope will help my readers with getting through the many times long content I put up here. Rather than forcing people to read white type through black I've reversed the equation so that you can read black type on a lighter background whilst keeping the colour highlights that have become a bit of a trademark at the Wild Wild East Dailies.

And so now, it's your job to tell me what you think. Do you like the new layout and colours, or would you like me to go back to the ImmaBlackBadAssedBlog look and continue our underground quest? Honestly, I think so many of the black on white blogs are just so visually boring and I miss the look of a good magazine design, so I'm not in a big hurry to go totally black on white - and I promise, that even with this little tweaking of the look that I won't loose any of the acerbic yet hopeful commentary many people have become fond of. This is, just truly, a way to make it easier on a lot of people's eyes and computer screens.

Look in the sidebar and find the poll to vote for the blog look. I'll keep this design for about a month and then, based on your input, make a decision on how to proceed in the future. In the meantime, you can Google the "Obama Oprah Anal Oral Sex Butt Scandal" and let me know what you find out. I'm sure somebody's got a post out there.

I'm going to finish today with two reviews that have appeared on "Blogged". You can see my Blogged rating easily in the sidebar and vote for yourself if you like. I do appreciate the comments - at least ones like these:

(9.9) - "A rare foray into the underbelly of being. Takes one back to the golden age of blogging when being a blogger was akin to reporting from the dark side of the moon. Blogging has now become fashionable as well as a slick marketing ploy. David's blog really is a breath of fresh air!!" - David A.

(9.0) - "David writes with insight and personal comments, making it rather interesting read. Once you start reading, you will come back for more. He doesn't need to advertise much, he sells you with his product, it's solid. The good old fashioned way. You can't fake this or try to copy it, it just wouldn't work. This is David's world, and it is quite a read..." - Mads M.

(9.0) - After a long day at the office, this blog is an always fascinating, hangover-free cocktail of keen observation, a nothing-is-sacred perspective and heart. Read it via e-mail ... or, for a full sensory immersion, through your browser. - Freya R.

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