A puzzling little blog still looking for its voice, but sometimes gets lost and has trouble finding its way.
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
I Think Icon, I Think Icon
What you see above is an early draft of what I hope will become the icon for his blog. Let me tell you about it. When I first started this blog, I didn't own a computer. I had to use the computers at public libraries for all my blogging purposes. I was therefore limited in my time online. My original blogs were limited by the twenty or so minutes that I could spare after work or on special trips, while still dealing with other online duties. This is one of the main reasons why many of the features of this blog have not been fully used, such as ads. Even after I finally got a computer last year, I still had trouble setting up some features. For instance, I need to verify my blog via a text message or phone call. Since I still don't have smart phone (I'm working on it) and I can't always use the weak wi-fi at work to use my work number, the one I use for most of my computer needs, this has been hard. Another problem has been in creating my blog's icon. My Mac does not come with an art app installed. No Macs do anymore. I have yet to find a free one with good reviews and the type of features I might need. Still, for this early version, the graphics portion of Pages, Apple's word processing app, worked just fine. Note how I incorporated my initials into the downward facing sword, which also vaguely looks like a pen or pencil. I would have already put it into my blog, except for one problem. It doesn't fit. Although I have a square frame around the pic and I used an apparently square aperture to take the screenshot of the logo, Blogger doesn't think the pic is square enough. In fact, it is approximately a pixel or so off from a perfect square, just enough to make it unacceptable. I probably won't be able to do any better until I get used to the recently added Screenshot app, or I get a graphics app that can get a perfectly square image of a size that Blogger finds acceptable. The final logo might have the sword piercing something, as well as being more swordlike, pointier you know. Anyway, tell me what you think of this early draft. While I admit it was just a few minutes of messing around, it shows off just what I want to do.
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