Website Design
I walked down a new path in recent weeks. I developed this website. I read some books and imposed on family members.
The site you’re browsing is the result.
I discovered the chalkboard theme while planning a menu board image for the Village Café. The theme appealed to me because: I hadn’t noticed another site using the theme, I like understated messaging, and it reminded me of school days where I was introduced to many ideas.
I’ve had a full career explaining concepts and designing strategies. My ideas unfold on a pad of paper, a restaurant napkin, or a whiteboard. My audience is often an owner-manager of a small business or an individual facing some business or tax situation. As a trusted advisor, the discussions often spill over to any of the human conditions encountered by middle-class folks in Canada. Seldom, do my clients expect a highly polished presentation. Hence, the chalkboard theme seems consistent with my everyday presentations.
Many folks aspire to fancy houses, cars, clothes. I prefer serviceable, affordable, neat houses, cars and clothes. The chalkboard will do.
When I opened the theme, I noticed the brown border. It seems a tad incongruent with the dominant blackboard color. It can be changed but I’m growing attached to it. When I was in grade four, my village got a new, two-room school that replaced the two original school houses. One of the new school features was the battleship linoleum. It was roughly three times as thick as regular linoleum, close to indestructible and the color approximated the border of these pages. For those of us who started learning before whiteboards, chalkboards should remind us of the many ideas introduced and explained on black or green boards.
For those who believe I should stumble into the 21st century, I leave room for you to comment below.