Take 2: Explaining my New Template

I am in love with this Diary template I found at Novo Blogger. It has a warm, personal yet academic feel that is very appropriate I feel to how I want this blog to come across, lol.

1. The template has 2 columns and uses the golden rule of 2/3 of the width for the body and posts, and a 1/3 side bar on the right for the gadgets and things. 
2. The dark emerald green, leatheresque texture of the notebook contrasts the light and warm brown tinged paper that the blog sits on. As far as size is concerned there is a logical hierarchy of the blog title and post titles being the largest and descending in size from the date of postings and gadget titles to finally a small text size for the body of posts. Space and proximity are utilized well; the large posts column has a lot of blank space around the body of the posts, isolating it as important content. Second in priority is the smaller right column, where proximity is much closer, showing that items here are subsidiary to the blog content, and a little more compressed. Space implies time to read over the blogs, the tightness on the right says, "hey, check out this stuff too, if interested."

Originally, the buttons at the top for twitter, facebook, and contact were linked to the designers profiles. I am happy to say that I changed them to my own through editing the html of the template, fun stuff. 

-Amber