Mark's Cafe Moi: What’s with all the green in here?

I’m a tweaker, I can’t help myself. I toyed with MadeMark.net over the last few years, always trying to find a layout I liked, a color scheme I liked, a banner photo I liked. After many changes, great and small, I finally settled into one that I think I’ll be happy with for a while. So, too, with lgbtSr.com. I tried WordPress and hated it. I started a shopping cart at Go Daddy, only to be aghast at the price tag: they seem to insist you do everything for five years, including domain registration, so by the time I got to the checkout it was over $200, and I hadn’t even seen what my layout options were. Let’s face it: I love Blogger. There are pros and cons, lovers and haters, but Blogger is extremely user-friendly. You go into the design function and there’s your site, all laid out exactly as you would want it to be. It’s all click-and-drag. And, frankly, just about every website out there is a variation on a theme – columns and rows. Move them around some, but it’s all the same palette. For my modest ambitions with my sites Blogger is the best choice. I did want to make lgbtSr look a little different, since it is different, and today I settled on the green scheme. For many years blue was my favorite color, but sometime in the past decade I’ve come to love green. The road that leads from the highway to our house in rural New Jersey includes a stretch of dense forest I call the Enchanted Forest. It’s gorgeous, a canopy of tall trees arching from one side of the road to the other, covering the cars driving through with a lush green overhang. Nature has so much green for a reason: life is green, from tiny sprouts to the last leafs of summer before they turn a burst of yellow, red and orange. Green is ideal for lgbtSr.com. Green is all of us, in our many shades. I hope you find it as pleasing to the eye as I do.]]>