Got featured on CSS Based :) I never realized how many CSS showcase galleries there were out there until, well, I started looking. I mean seriously, over 200? I suppose it’d be fairly straightforward to run and would bring in lot of traffic if successful without too much initial investment, but it doesn’t seem like it’d be particularly exciting to maintain.

While I’ve looked through CSS Mania and Webcreme numerous times, now that one of my sites is posted on something of that nature I’m more compelled to draw comparisons. The only major conclusion I’ve come to so far is that I still have a ton to learn about design.

Speaking of inspirations though, I saw orbasquara.com through a facebook update and it’s such a fantastic presentation for an album. I can’t say that I’m in love with the music, but the typography, design and story are borderline addictive.

Trying out an almost depreciated plug-in for making WordPress posts through you phone.

It’s almost depreciated because they’re making it into an iPhone app. Unfortunate! This seems to work just fine on my HTC Fuze (still the dumbest name for a phone I’ve ever owned). Impressive that the latest version is from late 2007 but hasn’t completely broken yet. Well, assuming this post goes through.

I guess the new layout’s about 95% complete. Need to fix sidebar poking into the text area in IE6, style the comments area, then run everything through some validators.

Not entirely sure how I feel about this one, to be honest. The painting of trees on floating islands was graciously done by my boyfriend since he offered! (Likely because what I had lined up previously was questionable.) That’s probably my favorite part about this though. Other than that, the colors and styling are all over the place and I couldn’t figure out a good way to format the rest of my pages (profile and projects) to be cohesive with the rest of the layout but still sectioned out and organized.

I’ve never been terribly good with dark layouts and am already envisioning what the next WHITE based layout will look like. Going to stick this one out for a quarter of a year at the very least regardless :)