Well. This year has been a year of new things for me. I had some ipad envy when Apple introduced them a year or so ago, but resisted the urge to run out and get one simply because I didn't know how functional it would be for me. I didn't really dig into it much because I knew I would really, really want one and I would have trouble holding back. To my surprise, I received an ipad as an anniversary gift from the people of South Lansing Christian Church in January. Its an awesome piece of hardware that is both functional for my ministry and very fun to play with.
The other new toy I got this year was a 24 inch imac computer. When my friend, Mark, bought it a few years ago, I had a bit of computer envy. It is simply big and beautiful. Lucky for me, he wanted to revert back to a windows system. He made me a great deal on it, and so now it has a new home on the corner of my desk in my office. It is beautiful!
With the ipad and the new/used imac, though, I got a new perspective of the look of pages on the internet. Back in the day the standard was a standard aspect ratio--800 by 600 or 1024 by 768--just like my current 27 inch tube tv. Now everything is in a widescreen or HD format. Since my ipad is intuitive and wants everything to look perfect, it resizes and shifts everything to where it needs to be. My imac, on the other hand, shows everything like it is, especially when the web browser is set to full screen. That made my last blog layout look horrible since it only filled half the screen and was justified to the left. That called for a new look.
As with my last rework of this blog, this one was just as painless. I searched for a little bit, downloaded a few templates, and did some experimentation. What you see is the result. Thank you nerdy people who build templates for nerdy/yet incapable people like me.
Now if my imac and my ipad could help me to be more cool . . . I know, I'm already cool enough!
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