Learning process, and my OCD

Oh my stars have I learned something HUGE today!

My OCD is making some things take me a bit longer to get done ~sighs~

I admit it ... I have issues with uniformity in how the things I do look, but it's not always a bad thing. Maybe now that I have noticed it, I can leverage it to make my sites fall into place faster with a 'template' of sorts in mind ~smiles~ Let me give you an example of what I noticed in my way of looking at my own posts and pages - and how I 'think' I can make it work to my advantage.

• Images - These are things used to make our posts and pages more 'pleasing' to the readers (and ourselves) ... but for someone that has never added an image before - UG!

- Did you know that you can take off the links that show up at the bottoms of the page when people point to the picture? Like the page the image is stored at that automatically gets dropped in the details? I LOVE that fact! I had to go back and fix all of my existing images, and know a faster way to avoid that in the future now - its in the Details window when you first add the image.
- Adjusting the image after its placed makes the page fun too. If you click on a picture you placed, you can edit it and see 'roughly' how it would interact with the wording you already have in place! A tip though, if you end with an image ... hit Enter a few times first and place the image in the middle of that. I learned that the hard way when some of my posts have the theme page border going right through the Center of my image - Blah ... I have to go fix that on a few pages as well.

• Fonts - All of our themes come pre-installed with some relevant fonts to them, and most of the time they work well. Just not all of the time.

- Not sure how many plug-ins are recommended for our themes and the like, but there are a few out there that let us adjust our fonts to ones that we like better! I was so glad I was clued into some font issues that were an easy fix with a new font, and that making one change fixed ALL my posts and pages.

• Closing and Signatures - I know we all have our way of signing off a post that we make, and I am no different in that one. But I just couldn't seem to get a "feel" for the way the fonts looked as a signature to make the post truly "mine" ... am I alone in that?

- What did I do to fix this issue? (Or what I thought was more of my OCD beating me up) ... I drew out my own signature and made an image file for it to add (and thus found out the issue with the theme borders and closing with an image). I also wanted to differentiate the Questions area ... so I made an image for that too while working on my review for the bootcamp! Then I remembered something ... my OCD will have me going back and editing every single page and post over the next day to add that (though, I think it will not be too bad as it really does give the site more of a "me" look to it).


So, in a nutshell ... if you are like me, and OCD or any other reason hits you in the back of your design process center - run with it! It may just turn out to be a good thing. Or at least a way to personalize your site and define it more? Not sure there ... I'm still trying to process that out within my own design center. Silly compulsive me.

Just thought I would share that random little thing I learned ~smiles~ Maybe it will even give you something inspirational.