Badly Drawn Cat II - The Desk

Well, first of all I'll hold my hands up and admit I'm no graphic designer. It took me all evening to produce these pictures and style this layout, so I don't expect I'll be doing another one in a hurry.

The reasons why I've redone by styling to look like a desk are much more prosaic. Basically I decided the site looked graphically poor and I wanted to improve it. Secondly, I needed to come up with an idea that would not only give me spaces to put content but would give me a unifying theme to hang it all together.

Theoretically of course, I could have gone for a more abstract design, but as I say I don't have the graphic design skills. I could have just taken a nice template from Blogger and used that, but for the same reason badly drawn cat first appeared I said no. Because I wanted to do it myself.

The first step was therefore to come up with a theme. A blackboard? Discounted because I'd need to make the text look 'chalky' plus I didn't fancy a black background. A carpet, with things lying on it? Naaah. I considered Christmas wrapping paper, with the text information being found in gift tags and the like... then I considered it a bit more. Then I decided January was the wrong time of year for that, and if I still liked the idea later in the year I could try it then (and read up on stylesheet switching, while I'm on).

So, after briefly considering a cork noticeboard with things pinned to it, I decided to plump for the desk. It's based on my desk at work. Well, I say based, the background image is actually a sample from a photo of my desk. Although my real desk has more paperclips and coffee cups lying around on it.