Well, that's one way to wake up...
I should remember to take a few sips of coffee *before* I set foot outside. I walked out on the deck just now, thinking to bask in the early morning sun a bit, and plopped down in my favorite chair...only to discover that it had about an inch of water on it from the rain. Cold water. Very, very cold water.
Work on the website is plugging along. The main page is up, and the rest should follow today. I spent yesterday in CSS land trying to figure out why the fonts looked so radically different between IE and Firefox. I confess that I really dislike designing websites, preferring print design by far to it. No excuses, though, since this is my own business, and I have to put something up that will attract attention and get my message across. The portfolio section is still problematic, but I'll work it out somehow. Beggars, choosers and all.
Only three more classes to go before I graduate, and I am so, so ready. My current class is Corporate Identity, something I dreaded taking, thinking it would be more about design-by-focus-group than anything substantial. Turns out that the design process is a pretty interesting one. Yes, it's still more marketspeak than I can handle, but at least the instructor has a sense of humor, and a unique viewpoint to offer about how it all fits together. I chose our local LSNA as my "logo makeover" project - I hate the way the current logo looks like a silver candlestick plopped amid letters (it's actually a memorial column celebrating 100 years of statehood, and sits in the rotary down the street). I have a few ideas already sketched out, taking pieces from the column instead of the whole thing (and a few where I did away with the column completely). Should be interesting.
Work on the website is plugging along. The main page is up, and the rest should follow today. I spent yesterday in CSS land trying to figure out why the fonts looked so radically different between IE and Firefox. I confess that I really dislike designing websites, preferring print design by far to it. No excuses, though, since this is my own business, and I have to put something up that will attract attention and get my message across. The portfolio section is still problematic, but I'll work it out somehow. Beggars, choosers and all.
Only three more classes to go before I graduate, and I am so, so ready. My current class is Corporate Identity, something I dreaded taking, thinking it would be more about design-by-focus-group than anything substantial. Turns out that the design process is a pretty interesting one. Yes, it's still more marketspeak than I can handle, but at least the instructor has a sense of humor, and a unique viewpoint to offer about how it all fits together. I chose our local LSNA as my "logo makeover" project - I hate the way the current logo looks like a silver candlestick plopped amid letters (it's actually a memorial column celebrating 100 years of statehood, and sits in the rotary down the street). I have a few ideas already sketched out, taking pieces from the column instead of the whole thing (and a few where I did away with the column completely). Should be interesting.