If there’s one thing I do well, it’s procrastination. I could probably write a book on the subject if it wasn’t for my impecable skill in the given field. Take this blog entry as an example, after a month of absence I’ve finally got a topic on which I feel like writing about and I go and get distracted by hotornot.com, admittedly scoring people very low. That site’s real achievement is collating the fugly in this world so effortlessly. Anyway, taking a u-turn back in the direction where I was originally heading, the reason why I’m noting this somewhat undesirable skill is because it sometimes leads me down routes of fruitful passage.
Today I was meant to call various office folk to arrange my finances for coming academic year. Instead, based on a conversation last night with Inn (elegantlywastedwords.co.uk) about the lack of web development from ourselves, I decided to design and code a website based on an idea that I’ve had floating about for a good few months now.
The design uses off brown and reds to give it a warm and homely feel which is what a food blog should really feel like. Food isn’t about clinical work surfaces, it’s about that cosy feeling. At the moment it’s only in HTML and CSS, but I’m adapting and carting it off over to Wordpress by coding a lovely new skin from scratch (my second, the first being this blog right here) to see if it transfers well.
Just for the moment I’m coding this just to limber up and keep myself in the right frame of mind, work wise, so that when I head back to University I’ll be raring to go. Although, given how much I’m warming to the design and concept of the site I’m considering turning it into a long term project. I’m quite jealous of Alice (aliced.co.uk) and Inn because of their 365 projects they did on Flickr because it’s something I’d really like to do but given my inexperience with Photography I’ve never felt comfortable attempting it, so this new project could be my 365…who knows? Regardless, I’m quite excited to see how this pans out.
