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So, here's what's up.
I'm spending a good deal of my freetime developing software for an upcoming web magazine called "Geeks of Unusual Size". Not a paid gig, but it's a friend who is pulling the people together. I was originally tapped to be a lead writer for the tabletop gaming section, but my desire for a project to work on gave me a desire to volunteer for the developer job.
The part I was worried about was designing the visual look of the site, something that I've been traditionally pretty poor at. My knowledge of CSS is pretty atrophed, and picking colors that work together has never been a strong suit. But after watching a couple YouTube examples, I decided to give designing the visual design in photoshop a go. This is what I came up with:
After I had the layout made in photoshop, using the slice tool, it took about two hours worth of effort to turn it into compliant CSS and HTML. You can look at it here, if you like: http://bradley-online.com/gous/
I'm still futzing around with it to make it compatible across browser before I go back to sifting through code to try and get it final, the goal being to have it finished by Friday.
Things with Jane are going extremely well, which feels good to say, as I had some encroaching paranoia leak in over the last week that she was losing interest, and rapidly. It was more or less a case of her being really uphappy with her work situation and thus not feeling super up to talk much during the week. I was interpreting this as disinterest due, in large, to a personal history of good things being temporary and prone to being rent asunder at a moment's notice.
However, this turned out not to be the case. I spent more or less all day Saturday and Sunday hanging out at her place watching movies. Save a trip to the mall so she could shop and going to get Turkish food at a place off of Bethel Road (which was a first, in memory, for me.) I also discovered that my hatred for tea isn't for tea itself, but for the overprocessed taste of cheap tea. The good green tea she gave was was rather good.
All in all, it was a very good, if simple weekend.
Oh, she met my mother as well. I had lunch with her (mom) Sunday afternoon at the tuttle food court, prior to meeting up with Jane. My mom has been struggling to stay hands off with her questions about how the whole thing is going, given her naturally inquisitive nature about every last thing her kids are invovled in, but asking her ot not say Hello when I was meeting her at the same place might as well have been asking her to willfully submit to waterboarding.
This coming weekend I'm going to visit my Brother in Chicago and explore the city in general. It'll be nice to have a four day weekend to get away on.
I suppose that's about it. Take it easy, everyone.
-B
I'm spending a good deal of my freetime developing software for an upcoming web magazine called "Geeks of Unusual Size". Not a paid gig, but it's a friend who is pulling the people together. I was originally tapped to be a lead writer for the tabletop gaming section, but my desire for a project to work on gave me a desire to volunteer for the developer job.
The part I was worried about was designing the visual look of the site, something that I've been traditionally pretty poor at. My knowledge of CSS is pretty atrophed, and picking colors that work together has never been a strong suit. But after watching a couple YouTube examples, I decided to give designing the visual design in photoshop a go. This is what I came up with:
After I had the layout made in photoshop, using the slice tool, it took about two hours worth of effort to turn it into compliant CSS and HTML. You can look at it here, if you like: http://bradley-online.com/gous/
I'm still futzing around with it to make it compatible across browser before I go back to sifting through code to try and get it final, the goal being to have it finished by Friday.
Things with Jane are going extremely well, which feels good to say, as I had some encroaching paranoia leak in over the last week that she was losing interest, and rapidly. It was more or less a case of her being really uphappy with her work situation and thus not feeling super up to talk much during the week. I was interpreting this as disinterest due, in large, to a personal history of good things being temporary and prone to being rent asunder at a moment's notice.
However, this turned out not to be the case. I spent more or less all day Saturday and Sunday hanging out at her place watching movies. Save a trip to the mall so she could shop and going to get Turkish food at a place off of Bethel Road (which was a first, in memory, for me.) I also discovered that my hatred for tea isn't for tea itself, but for the overprocessed taste of cheap tea. The good green tea she gave was was rather good.
All in all, it was a very good, if simple weekend.
Oh, she met my mother as well. I had lunch with her (mom) Sunday afternoon at the tuttle food court, prior to meeting up with Jane. My mom has been struggling to stay hands off with her questions about how the whole thing is going, given her naturally inquisitive nature about every last thing her kids are invovled in, but asking her ot not say Hello when I was meeting her at the same place might as well have been asking her to willfully submit to waterboarding.
This coming weekend I'm going to visit my Brother in Chicago and explore the city in general. It'll be nice to have a four day weekend to get away on.
I suppose that's about it. Take it easy, everyone.
-B