Two sleepless nights later....

I present to you the largest HTML, CSS and Javascript code MESS made in blog template history, ever!

After months of nagging and dragging my feet (plus a few feeble attempts), I have finally changed my template!

[Holds up cue card that says "Applaud and cheer!"]

Before that though, let's observe a moment of silence for the passing of my beloved blog template. She served me well.

[Revered silence]

OOOOoook! Moving on. After hours more of painful labor, a new blog has been born!

I apologize for not changing the color scheme too much and if anything, for making it girlier than ever. Hey, I wanted to keep it light and cheery without having it hurt your eyes too much, and really, this took so long that I couldn't be bothered to figure out which colors go with which.

I'm really proud of myself for all the cool new stuff that I've added to my blog (I just discovered blogger hacks!) and for completely changing the original template around. Hey, I don't want to have a blog that looks like everyone else's!

This is how my old template originally looked like:




Except that blogger didn't have the profile feature and such back then. It was much simpler.

This is how it looked like after I gave it a facelift and tweaked it a little at a time: (you're all familiar with this)




You have to admit that's pretty cool! Well, I think it is because I really knew close to nothing about HTML when I first started blogging (this was the at the very beginning of this year, I was home in Malaysia then). I spent a long time trying to change the colors in my template the first time because I had to figure out through trial and error what the code meant and what it did.

When I was done, I became somewhat familiar with CSS and HTML and would look at the templates of other bloggers, picking up ideas from all over. I still can't construct a blog from scratch, but I can read code and understand what it does - for the most part, and copy and paste and edit. So I'm a script kitty, but a good one at that!

This is what the original template for my current blog looked like pre-Faye:




Yeah. We're talking major cosmetic surgery here...

Ok, ok, enough boasting. I hope that you like the way it looks. Let me know what you think and if something isn't working right. This is a work in progress still. There will be bugs to fix I'm sure. Leave me a comment or two - I did some really cool things with my comments.

I'm transitioning from Haloscan to my tweaked version of blogger comments, by the way, so please comment on the new comment window. I'm just leaving the old ones to read for now. They get deleted after four months but I'll probably just get rid of them by then. I'm right now just reluctant of getting rid of the few comments I have on my blog. I don't get that many as it is - I want this place to at least sort of populated!

Ok, so I'm all out of ways to make this blog end with a bang. I'm fresh out of funnies. I better go now. I've sacrificed enough social life over my baby as it is!