08.36, Monday 1 May 2000

Welcome to the redesign. It's rather green, I know, which is something I'm pretty pissed off about. I had a list of colours I wanted to avoid because they're getting quite lazy (orange, blue, grey, recently green), so I started playing around with really obnoxious combinations: I had a really terrible brown and bright red thing going on and that was cool, somehow subversive because it looked like bloody shit, but then these strips came along and now I just look like the Channel 4 Territorial Army division.
 
I have some problems with design though: I've only recently (last couple of years) started designing in colour. I love black and white, and I love doing stuff in print. I know it's not terribly fashionable to admit this but I still feel fairly uncomfortable with only have two borders on the (web) page, and also with using colour. I always end up using three colours; two very close and one for highlights. When it comes to using a whole palette, I'm just unsure.
 
Still. At least I've resisted the temptation to spatter my page with photographs.