As always, I feel a little anxious whenever I decide to blog about things like talent, creativity, and aesthetics because I’m not good at any of those things, so it makes me feel a tad … arrogant, maybe?  Curmudgeonly?

Still, it has to be said that 99.9% of the WordPress themes are crap, plain & simple.  NOT an intentional play on words there, it just fits.

Blogger’s standard layouts are no better, either.  Worse than WordPress at any rate.  Ugly, unimpressive, and with color palates that make me think the designers are color BLIND.

CSS has changed significantly since I last created a web page, and even knowing that to STUDY the subject would help tremendously, I have yet to take the time to learn, in the hopes of becoming a designer myself.

The .1% of designs that strike my fancy never work when I try to use them, either.  This is almost as frustrating as not having anything to chose from to begin with, especially when you can spend more than an hour online trying to find a stupid theme for your stupid blog.

Being moth-like, I’ve always been attracted to the shiny, bright, and wow-factor things in life.  This personality quirk makes the process of searching for and finding the perfect layout or theme quite daunting, if not entirely depressing.

Selfish comes to mind, too.  I want what I want, when I want it, and most importantly, HOW I want it.

What is with the narrow blog space anyway?  Perhaps it’s the now thing in blog styles, but to me, having a screen-wide amount of depressing color, three inches of blog space, and two & a half inches of widget space makes no sense whatsoever.

Honestly, is this what a $100,000 college education is producing today?  I liken the lack of talent, thought, and/or creativity to the atrocious grammar situation in the United States.  Neither makes any sense, both are a sad commentary on the world today, and they each have no class.

To be perfectly honest, I blame the moron that wrote the original article about the ugliest website’s on the web.  It would seem that too many sheep have followed the call of a color-blind, opinionated buffoon with no sense of style, let alone taste.   So, he didn’t care for bright font, acid-washed backdrops, and blinking text.  Was it God that penned the article, by the way?   What has he got on the rest of the world, that so many people decided to take his words to heart?

AT LEAST FOR THE SAKE OF LEVITY, can we go back to having a little FUN online now?  It’s bad enough that we are forced to have to pen our prose & poetry using a generic, run-of-the-mill machine that cranks out standardized sites with insanely rigid rules, so why can’t we at least be allowed to do our own thing with our own space?

If I want neon yellow font against a navy blue background, with snowflakes falling down the page, then … why am I being stopped from having this occur?  Is it solely because I don’t understand CSS?  Will the guy that wrote that article on ugly websites pound my door down and blow my head off for offending his lack of sensibility?

I don’t get it.

I’m bored, too.  I’m a moth, but I’m also a persistent fool, and until I learn CSS, I’ll probably spend an hour or more each night in search of the ideal theme or layout for my blog.  Until I find it (or until I do break down & learn CSS), my theme will likely change on a consistent basis.

This article made me laugh, and then I cried.  HIS/HER top-ten list of the best-looking websites out there.   Um … huh?