Rainy Autumn Day Reflections
Such a pleasant day today. Lately it’s been in the upper 80s to around 90 here, a bit warm for this time of year. Today was a pleasant return to Autumn weather, with a stormy day in progress and temps in the low 60s! We are under a severe thunderstorm watch, but I really didn’t even consider chasing because it’s just really not the chasable type storms. Who knows, after dark might provide some lightning photography opportunities.
With such a lazy day on tap, I find myself just that… being lazy! As usually I have a to-do list a mile long, and I’ve been good about working on it lately, but I just can’t seem to throw myself in to anything today.
The end result is that I sit around staring out the window at the rain and reflecting on things in my life at this moment, projects I am working on, that sort of stuff.
I have been contemplating since Hurricane Ike about a complete face lift of the website and blog. Most especially the blog. The template I am using here is just bland to me, plus I want something a bit wider and more designed for 1024 resolution than 800. 800 resolution is dying, no sense keeping that torch burning.
I’ve been having difficulty finding a template I like, that easily accomodates the adsense, as well as compliments my main website template. Part of that is knowing I want to change the main website up.
As most of you know, I now use Joomla on my main website. I’ve been thinking about migrating to the newer 1.5 version, but that is going to be a bit of a task. I think I will start that undertaking this coming week as I have time around my regular every-two-weeks project I do. It’s not going to be an easy task, but I would like to make the move and the change in look.
I used to do black/dark backgrounds on my chasing website a lot, mostly because I feel the white/light backgrounds detract from storm images. However, I decided on the last change to the look of the site to go with a white background for some reason. With this new look, it will be going back to the dark backgrounds again.
I guess the only decision left to make on it is to decide whether or not I should start 3 or 4 threads on StormTrack with the press releases of my progress on the changes to my website, like some chasers do. 
Written by David Drummond on October 5th, 2008 with
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Jason Boggs
Chris Bradley
#1. October 8th, 2008, at 11:54 PM.
White backgrounds do detract from the image, but personally I find black to be too moody. I like the grey background that Roger Hill and Amos Magliocco use - Roger’s looks to be a bit darker and it still works for me.