I was pretty pleased with the look of the theme I had chosen.  The writing was presented in a clean frame.  I had decided not to put a widget panel on the right side.  You may not be aware of this unless you are familiar with WordPress, but you have the ability to create a panel on the right side of the web page where you can put things like Follow Me buttons, a place to register for a newsletter, etc.

I decided not to put anything more on the page to keep the clean design.  And then I got the annual reports about the children that Claudia, my wife, and I sponsor with Compassion and World Vision.  I Continue reading Why I Messed Up the Clean Design of my Blog →