Making my blog feel more like home

It's time to make my blog feel more like me. I'm never comfortable looking and acting exactly like anyone else and having a blog with a pre-made theme, no matter how obscure it might be, feels like I'm wearing someone else's clothes.

Here's my simple plan to make my blog my own:

Step 1: Put my big ol' name on it -
"But it has your name on it already." You're tempted to say. But what's cooler: scottweblog.blogspot.com or www.scottpantall.com? You know which is cooler. I don't have to tell you. I wonder if the day will come when everyone has their own website. Should I register www.ashlynnpantall.com now?

There is one potentially big obstacle in my way though. My current webhosting account was started with my wedding website, so if I want to add scottpantall.com to that account I'll have to keep my wedding domain name, konoldpantallwedding.com, active as long as I want to keep my scottpantall.com domain active. Are you still following?

While this may not seem like a big deal, I don't want to deal with konoldpantallwedding.com indefinitely so I'll have to find a way around this.

Step 2: Giving my blog it's own clothes -
The internet, and techonology itsself is all about using other peoples' things, but to seperate myself from the rest of the herd, I gotta do my own thing. I'll spend the next couple of weeks tinkering with my blog. I'll change colors and backgrounds, resize sections, add content and widgets, etc.

I'll be soliciting help from 2 of my good friends, Anthony Wyatt and Candice Guilbeault. Both of whom already have their own websites in their names.

There is a good chance I will make more than few errors, which will make my site look like complete crap for a short amount of time. Please let me know if you see one so I can fix it.

"Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it's a primal calling." - Hugh MacLeod