Despite the fact that I still like white text on black background (what used to be the appearance of ZsoltBalla.com in its first three weeks of operation), I haven’t come across any other blog that I’d like to read, and that is using this “negative” color combination. It may be because people claim that their eyes hate it: I know that my eyes don’t. So even if I don’t know the reason, there has to be one, because of the zillion blogs I recently checked not one has been using white text on black background. (If you have any idea why this is, pleas leave me a comment, because I’m really interested.)
I’m still not happy with the (minimalist) color scheme, though. I want, for example, links and bold texts to stand out more due to their colors, etc.

Sans-serif fonts have lost their appeal a couple of years ago, even if we’re talking about web design. So I changed my post titles (similarly to the blog title) to font-family:Georgia,serif; a simple, yet nice font. I’ve also slightly increased the font size of the post titles.

Using texts (titles, brand names etc) all lowercase was really cool, say, six years ago. Now it feels so 2002 (if you don’t trust me, read what Under Consideration has to say on all lowercase). It turned out that the lowercasing of all my titles were done by the css (I didn’t even know that CSS was capable of doing that, but while searching I’ve found other cool css text effects, too). So I’ve gone through my style.css files, and deleted all those text-transform: lowercase; lines. Man, there were many of them. I think the site looks way better now.

Things are not going quite as well as I hoped they would, so I decided to remove the AdSense strips from my blog for now (I’ll post on my expectations vs. reality in more details in the very near future, possibly tomorrow). What all this boils down to at the moment is that, while it’s clear that it won’t make me substantial money, I don’t want my visitors to be distracted by them. I always frown at sites that are clearly in their initial phase of developments, both from traffic and from content point of view, and still, they are packed with advertisements. Since I don’t want to be frowned at, I decided to focus on content and traffic for now, and money, I know, will follow.

It didn’t happen today, but still the delayed was way too long. Fortunately it is done now.