Can a blog change its skin?

There’s a reason that this one didn’t make it as a proverb: blog skins are altered, shed and reassumed with ease. The development of blog “skins” is a great outlet for the artistically-inclined, and, with the number of artistically-inclined folks out there, there have been many skins developed for sharing which I could apply to this blog with a few clicks of the mouse. Now, considering that we will be increasingly personalizing this blog in response to concerns both functional and aesthetic, I’d like to open this up to preliminary discussions on color, graphics, fonts and layout …

the laboratory is within the experiment

… or, at least this blog itself is expected to morph considerably over the course of these next few months. In setting up the blog I hastily chose a simple, pre-packaged visual format which vaguely reminded me of the most assertive visual backdrop of the PKAP site: the Mediterranean Sea. I’m not sure that I would call it a neutral space — that is, the sea-scape presented by the Mediterranean Sea in Larnaka Bay — but, neutral or not, it does draw the gaze more than the landward portion of the panorama. But maybe that’s just me. Judging from the Topos/Chora photographs, I don’t think that I’m the only one who was drawn to the great blue expanse ….

So, this is all to warn our audience ahead of time that we will be “tweaking” or “niggling” the particular manifestation of this blog as we go along. If you have any ideas which you would like to contribute, we welcome and encourage them.