You might have noticed that it’s been kind of quiet around here lately.  The last month has found me with a lot of client work and I’ve been on a mission of updating and redesigning my websites at lisamikulski.com and dragonflyblu.com.  You’ll also see that this blog has a whole new look.  In order to accomplish all this I put a curtail on blogging, twittering, socializing (online and off) and emails.  But… here we are.  Websites are nearly completed and I’m ready to move forward.

The WordPress theme you see here was developed by the fabulous Veerle Pieters for Woothemes.  I’ve been an admirer of Veerle’s work and her blog for a long time.  While I could have created a unique design for my blog it was never my intention to spend a month (or more) developing my own theme.  The purpose of my blog is to serve as a writing platform.  Writing is hard enough (I sweat blood) and I didn’t want to be fooling around with design or coding…at least not here. I looked at many WordPress themes, both free and paid.  There are many themes that are beautiful and the WP community is wonderful to work with. I could also have taken a rather generic theme and made it my own, but when I learned that Veerle’s design was created for Beast Cancer Awareness month… I was sold.

I also wanted a theme that worked the way I do.  While the design I had here in the past was indeed beautiful… it was dark and didn’t really fit my working style. It didn’t work as a cohesive design element with the branding of my other two sites either. I knew Veerle’s work would be quality and that the configuration would work in harmony with me. It’s my belief that a tool is only useful if it suits your working style…this goes for the majority of gadgets and applications out there.  If you have to structure your working style to meet the requirements of the tool, you are working in reverse. That’s never productive.

So please take a look around. I’ve included a small sample of work from my design portfolio, the navigation of the blog is easy and clean and I’ve recently included a few new posts I hope you will enjoy.  As always…

If you have a thought about this post or the new design, please comment and feel free to share.