Undecided

As mentioned before, I’ve been trying to come up with a new layout for my journal here, without much luck. I’ve had several goes, and thought I’d share what I’ve come up with. I wouldn’t mind hearing your thoughts on any of them, whether good or bad. Each pictures links to slightly bigger version so you can get the gist of the whole layout.

First up is one I worked on for awhile. I like the leafy design of the logo as it was actually kind of what I was going for. But the rest of it felt flat. The light purple bar the logo is sitting on top of extends most of the way down the page and would be the sidebar.

Next is another green one, this one more of a marble type. I liked the subtleties of it, but again, something just wasn’t clicking with me and I moved on.

This next one was more of me just goofing around with the ‘S’ and ‘P’ for a possible Shad’s Pad logo, and then wondering if I could make a layout with it. I was thinking a centered one, which was unique, as I believe all the ones I’m showcasing here were more on the left.

 Here was my venture into “Web 2.0″ territory. Gotta have glossy logos to qualify for Web 2.0! I didn’t have a beta badge though, so it failed the test.

 A ’59 Cadillac is the theme for this one, along with yet another type of logo. I kind of liked the logo as I thought the subtle curly brace that the SP makes was clever, but it’s still to much 1980′s cheese for me. And I should never try and be clever.

 Finally, here’s yet another orange/gray layout that I actually played with for quite a bit before giving up. I even had a color palette I’d made up for it. Once again, however, it just failed to really grab on to me and say “use me!” There’s a joke in there about needing a woman to do that to me, but I’m not grasping it.

 Like I said, I’d welcome any and all comments you might have. Perhaps if enough people like a certain one, I’ll move to that and continue to try and improve on it. And, naturally, right before this post, I was working on yet ANOTHER layout.

God, I need a life.