Revitalized

The blog is on its way to be fully revitalized. For the very least, first step on doing that is to constantly writing and posting it here. Such commitment requires great effort, especially when it's coming from me. At least I intend to stick to it. But let's not get our hopes high. It's only entering day two since the revitalization of this blog (which is yesterday).

After doing my last post last night, all I have done was simply redesigning the layout of the blog. I wanted it to be, at least, awesome enough and eye catchy (especially to me) so I wouldn't get bored looking at it. And of course, with the purpose to arouse my writing intention everytime I look at it.

So there was the general layout. I did not want to waste too much time picking on the general idea of layout for the blog. So I basically chose from any available basic template provided by blogger and my choice fell to this Awesome Inc template with generally dark-but-neat settings.

Second is editing the blog title. This one consumed most of the times. I needed to think of a new title for the blog since I was going to start all over again yet not quite from scratch. I needed something that represent the spirit. After a long consideration, and of course, trial and error with several different titles, my pick goes to the phrase "This is NOT Star-Crossed Melodies. Why that? Well...

Some of your probably know (although, you most probably wouldn't know) that I had this old blog titled Star-Crossed Melodies. It was domained under the flag of Friendster. I had that blog for quite a long time. As long as this one, if I'm not mistaken. But I posted mostly there in the past, and the posts there were, mostly, well, let's just say that if you want to dig the dirtiest dirt out of me then that blog might have been the right place to look.

But, alas, that blog is no more. As of several months ago, I decided to delete my abandoned Friendster account without fully realizing that the blog was contained within the account itself. So there it was, when I tried to revisited that blog, it was no more. And I realized at that moment, "Ooh riiight, I deleted my Friendster account. So it's only natural that the blog went away as well."

There you go. Since that old blog of mine is officially no more, this blog shall carry on its legacies. Thus the name, "This is NOT Star-Crossed Melodies" in memoriam of the old Friendster's "Star-Crossed Melodies".

Next was the blog description. I basically wanted to put random quotes for the blog's description. So as I browsed the internet and stumbled upon this wicked quote by Emperor Charles di Britannia, I copy-pasted it to be my newest blog's description. My plan is to make the blog's description section updated every once in a while so that I will not get bored with the quote :D

After that came the banner image. My first thought was to put something medieval or group of characters as its background. I had quite a difficult times finding good picture of medieval-ish banner. At that moment, my thought caught the idea of Skyrim, the incoming RPG game due this November. So I started looking some image based on it. Most images I found were that of some warrior (namely Dragonborn) which was quite unsuitable for a header banner image. But then I found this image of dragon with some landscape and I tried to make it to fit the header of the blog. And so there it goes, the theme of the header image background is actually from Skyrim which is the dragon of the north. I put such header image since Skyrim is going to be released sometime around 11-11-11. So until then, Skyrim's theme would probably be dominating my blog.

That's it. I should probably edit some more layout and design for the blog as well as thinking of what to write next.