Nows and Forevers

When I was an editor, every once in a while we liked to switch up the design.
Sometimes, it was a minor cosmetic change. For a newspaper group where I was top editor, I started small: Datelines, and then expanded bylines, a new section. That made it easier to make the larger changes I envisioned, a top-to-bottom redesign. I accomplished that four times in my career, thanks to a talented graphic arts team who liked a challenge and who agreed the newspapers had to get into the 21st century. Or at least the late 20th century.
I don’t know if this blog needs such a radical change. But I was thinking I needed a different look. After a few days of trying new designs behind the scenes, I ended up pulling the trigger, just now.
Why?
Maybe it was just getting ready for NaNoWriMo. Maybe it was that I needed a visual change. Or maybe I just had nothing else to do today.
Or the real reason: I just wanted a change.