Today is the first day of spring, and exactly one year since I switched the design on my blog from Twenty-Eleven to Franklin. I thought I’d take a look back at how if all else fails… looked before the facelift, you know, for the sake of posterity.
What was I thinking?
Really. I thought that was clever branding? Thank goodness my taste has developed over time.
Not that there’s anything wrong with Twenty-Eleven. I still think it’s one of the best and most versatile themes we have on WordPress.com, and I regularly recommend it to people. But I think I’ll be sticking with Franklin for a while 🙂
if all else fails...use a hammer 
Your current theme is much better. Much more focussed than the screenshots of your previous one looked. Could also be to do with how you’ve changed, perhaps?
I first started using this site in 2009 and I’m no stranger to it (though I had a couple of years break so am having to familiarise myself with the changes since then – and fill up my own failing memory with more info from time to time) but I took screenshots of every theme I tried because each seemed to me to have good points and bad points. The one I’m using now is really plain, but as I say in the ‘FUQ’ (!) in my side panel, it’s because I want people to concentrate on the content not its surrounds. I’ll probably change it later!
When did you first start blogging, btw?
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I first signed up in 2012 – I did an online writing class and a bunch of us decided to set up a blog to share our writing with each other. The whole hammer design was conceived the next year when I started bloggin in earnest.
What attracted me to Franklin was also the clean, simpler look. I’d been looking for a new theme for a while, but when I saw the announcement post for Franklin I immediately knew it was the theme I wanted. I made it my own, of course, but hopefully without too much clutter.
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