I change the site design every season

It wasnot planned at allat first, but...

Before I knew itmy self-made site (the whole thing) design, I started changing it to match thefour seasons.

■ The trigger was a "sudden idea"

The trigger was the "forest" background image of the site title.

Since my self-made site is anovel site, the title is "Forest of Words", but...

Because the title contains "forest", the concept of the entire site was set to "healing forest", and the title background wallpaper was also a "forest" pattern.

One time, while looking at that forest image, I suddenly thought, "Wouldn't it beinteresting if this forest scenery changed with the seasons?"...interesting...

Thus, before I knew it, the site design ended up changing every three months.

Even if I only change the "forest" part of the title background, thecombination with other materialswill look bad, so in the end, I end up changing the entire background wallpaper as well.

Moreover, I thought, "Wouldn't it be boring if it was the same rotation of combinations every year?" and...

Before I knew it, every year I would change the forest image, the overall wallpaper, or the wallpaper for the "Original Novel" section in the middle, and so on...

It has reached a state where "the same combination never happens twice"...

■ The forest goes from a still image to a video

It is a common occurrence for me to upgrade the design based on a sudden idea, but...

One time, I suddenly thought, "If this 'forest' image hadmovement, wouldn't it feel more like a 'natural forest' and bebetter?"...

So, the "forest" in the site title background wallpaper is currently a "GIF video".

Speaking of videos used on sites, I think they can be broadly divided into FLASH and GIF, but...

I was somehow not good with FLASH (because I have memories of being tormented when sites that used a lot of FLASHwould not display at all when the communication environment was not good...), so I chose GIF.

(If it's a GIF video, it can be easily created from the tools included with site creation software.)

However, since the original images intentionally included "color unevenness," "blurring," and "gradients," some have deteriorated and developed noise due to being converted to GIF format...

(I hope to make them into cleaner images once my skills improve in the future...)

■ Creating a theme for the whole year

Regarding the clover wallpaper I used as an example in my past article "Web design hints from everyday miscellaneous goods,"...

I liked the combination of "seasonal parts on top of colors with unevenness," so I decided to try web design with a "similar atmosphere" throughout the year.

I liked the idea of having the "same web design theme throughout the year," so I decided to set a "common theme for the year" for the following year as well.

The common theme for that next year (fiscal year 2022) was "Japanese patterns," but...

Since the overall background wallpaper I used in summer, "Wave Rabbit," was an "auspicious Japanese pattern," I explained the "origin" of that "good fortune" on myupdate blog and it was unexpectedlywell-received...

Since then, I have also started using "auspicious" Japanese patterns for "autumn" and "winter."

By the way, this fiscal year, in contrast to last year's "Japanese," I chose "Western" style...

I am basing the web design on Western "happy symbols (lucky motifs)."

Since I started using "auspicious" web designs, I feel like the number ofsite visitors has alsoincreased... I wonder if there is someeffect to it...?

(By the way, the "auspicious Japanese patterns" used last year are here ↓ )