Interestingly, Problogger's regular contributor - Aaron Brazell in discussing the annual May First Reboot says:
"I've learned:1) change is inevitable, and 2) people hate change.
"The exception to this rule seems to be websites. Most people (and I say most because it's a suspicion that I have no way to prove one way or another), seem to like change in design and layout because most layout changes seem to be evolutionary - that is, they get better and more user-friendly with time.
"A Reboot is a kick in the butt to freshen a users experience, place a fresh face on your work and, in general, break monotony that tends to set in after awhile."
I kind of feel that way too. No statistics to back that up either. My excuse for doing it is that a blog is so much easier to fiddle with successfully than a website.
Still - it can eat up the time if someone who will remain nameless is obsessive about making that blue just a teeeensy bit softer or exact placement of item A in relation to item B.
I've stopped moving furniture around in the house entirely though. I suppose pushing columns around on a page seems so much less strenuous. I mention this because the width of the left column of Case Notes from the Artsy Asylum, which is my main blog, changed this week.
It's not a deal - more like trying it on for size. And I really like the new Maybe the OneMedia photo montage thingie. Maybe that should stick to the top of the whole shebang for a bit. I mean a few nice photo which show you how to use something can't be a bad thing. Especially when accompanied by music. Have any of you tried using them as kind of an attention grabber?
I'm liking this discussion of changing things around lots more than defragging or file clearing. If I can think of it as getting new spring duds rather than Spring Cleaning I think I can deal with it.
Maybe it's the artist in me - or maybe it's the philospher.
It could also be the woman who hates housework.
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Magi
Thanks, Susan!