I'm sorry that I haven't posted anything since Saturday. I thought that I would give the whole Blogger design idea a go so I've been working on setting up and designing that site. If I had just used an iStockphoto or Stockxpert picture to design it, I would be done by now, but I tried to draw my own header. That took a whole day and then some because I just wasn't satisfied with it. I'm still not. Shading with a pencil and charcoal and shading with a mouse pen and tablet are two different things. I still can't get it right, but I guess what I have will do for now. (Famous last words, right? The perfectionist in me will probably be tinkering with it for the next week.)
Yesterday I thought I was through with the easy, non-header parts of the design site, but then I realized that I could vaguely see the purple edges of the images that I was using in place of the traditional archives, about, search, and other sidebar titles. I had used the dropper tool to pull the color from the header and used that number to establish the color of the columns in the html code. Like an idiot, I then used the dropper instead of the color number to make all the images. As it turns out, there must have been more than one shade of purple in the header, and I must have been pulling from different parts because, in the end, every single title image was a slightly different shade. Obviously, I had to fix the discrepancies. I can't exactly say, "Hey, let me design your site," when my own site is sporting 20 shades of violet.
Then tonight I had planned on writing something brilliant--what I don't know, but I was hoping that the muses would come to me--but we're having super storm cells all night. One already hit about 30 minutes ago. First, the tornado sirens went off. Then the Atlanta news was telling me to get to a safe room, because the cell was forming a hook right over my town. (The news just played a video of the tornado that touched the ground in my town. Guess they were right about the hook.) A minute later the hail hit. Having lived through one tornado, you don't have to tell me twice to take cover. The dogs and I shut ourselves in the half bath downstairs. Luckily, we didn't get any damage this time, but it looks like another line is on its way. Consequently, I'm about to turn off the computer and go back downstairs.
Anyway, hopefully I'll have something much more entertaining for you to read tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by.
Yesterday I thought I was through with the easy, non-header parts of the design site, but then I realized that I could vaguely see the purple edges of the images that I was using in place of the traditional archives, about, search, and other sidebar titles. I had used the dropper tool to pull the color from the header and used that number to establish the color of the columns in the html code. Like an idiot, I then used the dropper instead of the color number to make all the images. As it turns out, there must have been more than one shade of purple in the header, and I must have been pulling from different parts because, in the end, every single title image was a slightly different shade. Obviously, I had to fix the discrepancies. I can't exactly say, "Hey, let me design your site," when my own site is sporting 20 shades of violet.
Then tonight I had planned on writing something brilliant--what I don't know, but I was hoping that the muses would come to me--but we're having super storm cells all night. One already hit about 30 minutes ago. First, the tornado sirens went off. Then the Atlanta news was telling me to get to a safe room, because the cell was forming a hook right over my town. (The news just played a video of the tornado that touched the ground in my town. Guess they were right about the hook.) A minute later the hail hit. Having lived through one tornado, you don't have to tell me twice to take cover. The dogs and I shut ourselves in the half bath downstairs. Luckily, we didn't get any damage this time, but it looks like another line is on its way. Consequently, I'm about to turn off the computer and go back downstairs.
Anyway, hopefully I'll have something much more entertaining for you to read tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by.
