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new blog designnnnnn!
Initially I thought of writing in a entirely new post about the new blogskin, but since the comments had already came into here, I'd might as well update here right?
Before I begin, I have a pet peeve about the term "blogskin". I cringe whenever I hear that word. I don't know who coined the term first, but it is apparent that BlogSkins.com is a site that provides free blogskins. Somehow "blogskin" and "BlogSkins.com" seemed affiliated and so, calling my design a blogskin will seemingly degrade from an exclusive one it to a common one found on that website. But well, I crumbled. It's a weak argument and "blogskins" is an easier and more catchy word anyway. Kua kua kua. That aside, it's time to rejoice!  It's quite a huge revamp in terms of the look of it! One major change is the inverted colour scheme! Ever since the I started this blog, I'd always done up the designs with white text on black/dark background, for I'd always feel that it makes the words more striking. But now, it's the reverse! I'm still trying to get use to it though, but thank god it didn't turn out looking crappy!  And if it isn't obvious enough, you can click the red "Jayden's Blog" sign to switch to a 2nd part of the flash!  The bulk of the flash animation was actually done more than a year ago during my last year at Lasalle! It was actually meant for my portfolio website, Jaydenation.com. It's inspired by the propaganda era hence the very self-centric design and the appearance of Mao. What seemed like a never ending self project eventually got scraped as I got stuck at coding the website and grew out of the design eventually. I pulled this little piece of work out for the new blog banner as I thought it could very well be served as one! Though there wasn't any specific qualification to be eligible for the nomination of Nuffnang Blog Awards, I was hoping I could get nominated for the new design since the old one was done so many years ago! And when I made that decision, I had only 4 days left till the nominations close! Thankfully, I have my recent doodles to add on and save the day! And yes, they are namely the blogathon and the 'obsessed' doodles!  The layout is pretty much the same, just that I'd cleared and tidied up the side bar! The previous sidebar/s was getting a little too cluttered and I felt the urge to take a few things out and combine the 2 columns into 1.  In fact, nowadays a lot of bloggers try to clump too much information into one single page that it becomes so disorganised and distracting for blog readers. It is especially so to the blogspot users! Prolly they think they know a lil bit of HTML so they have the right to stuff every goddamn thing at the side!  I've removed the Plurk widget but you can click the red TWITTER and PLURK words in the flash to access to them! I've also changed the Twitter feed to the speech bubble like one! Well, if you were to ask me what's my favourite part of the new blogskin, I would say it's the BLOCKQUOTES! Look at how chio they are now! One final thing that I'd like to mention is that, I've dropped the tagline "I Can Give You Gatsby"! It is now, "La Propagande de Jayden" which means "The Jayden Propaganda" in French! Got the recent French craze after watching 'Coco Avant Chanel'! Haha! Anyway, finding a nice and catchy tagline was tough, and probably the coolest one ever is, "Everyone's reading it." LOL Oh, and if you miss my old design, it's still available at http://jayleif6.blogspot.com! By the way, I'm thinking of making new blogger namecards, but the problem is that I still have a ton of the namecards I've made last year!  So comment away if you'd like to have one! I'll be mailing it to anyone who wants one! Do also indicate if you want the Windows IE or Mac Safari one (or both)! 
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