Simpler layout & snake bite

Not having had anything much to do last night, also due to rain, allowed me to sit at my laptop and post a blog post update. You can read it by clicking here. I wasn't really planning it but I came to think, "it's about time for my website to have a new look". As always I went to Google search for inspirations. There were several blog designs that were interesting looking, but they weren't really inspiring me much. I eventually stumbled into a cropped photo of a website's header whose theme was red and white. I found it very interesting. It was modern looking. So, I tried to track the website but it now has a different header design. So, apparently the cropped photo was taken or made before the website had a new look.

Here is a photo of my website's previous design:


And, here's a still photo of the new design:


While on the previous design, I got several comments on how hard it was to find or locate the Archive button. It was there but, even to me, it was inconveniently hard to find. At that time I didn't know what to do about it because I would have needed to change the layout which would have taken a long time for me to finish. I waited until I knew it was the time for the website to have a new look. And, it happened to happen last night -out of my expectation.

Designing has always been a fun activity for me. This time I managed to remove the three annoying default buttons from Blogger (usually located at the bottom of the last blog post), which said Home, Older Post, and Subscribe to: Atom. I managed to find the codes and remove them. It's cleaner now.

I have also taken off the Google Ads which used to make my website slightly animated.

The Facebook Like button is still up there. I went for a different type of button this time by not including photos of my Like-ers.

I actually want to have a Most Recent Posts widget but I still can't figure out the best place and display for it.

On a side note...
Yesterday we had the longest power outage, which lasted almost 7 hours. We hated it so much. I went out from 9AM to 2PM to escape the boredom but when I came home the power was still out. It upset me a lot because on my way home I was planning to take a clean shower and make a strawberry juice that would pay off the sweats and lost energy.

So I waited for an hour in the house until the sun went down a bit to go out and around in the neighborhood. It wasn't so hot outside fortunately. It was a pretty nice afternoon.

The kids were so noisy in the house so I took them out to play. Here's a couple of photos that I posted on my Facebook wall yesterday.


In the back of our house there are still rice fields. It's nice to have a green view during a nice afternoon like yesterday.
Oh, actually, I went to the animal market during my escape yesterday. Aaaand... I got my first snake bite ever in my life! :D *so proud* hehehe. I mean... when was your first snake bite, really? :p

I don't fear snakes. At least, the non venomous ones. Usually when I handle a snake at the market it doesn't bite. Yesterday was not an usual case. I wasn't holding the snake but it was a kid trying to play with it. I think he held it in a wrong way which freaked out the snake a little bit, and my hand just happened to be close to the snake's head. So, yea... it bit me. It got my finger pretty bloody but it didn't hurt. I didn't even know it was bleeding until some people whispered about it. I know... I could have checked where the snake bit me. I just didn't want to panic, I guess? Well I knew it was a just python so I knew it wasn't venomous.

Ummm, so, here's a photo of my bit poor finger:

You guys have a good day! I'm gonna get ready to go to Borobudur temple to watch the Wesak ceremony!

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