Ha!  You’ll get this if you’re a webby person…if you aren’t, it’ll just confirm your suspicions:  yes, CSS-ers are a dorky, dorky bunch.  Here’s where I found this comic.

Just felt like fiddling around a little with drawing water bubbles from scratch (see above for my results).  Lately I’ve been challenging myself to draw all my own vectors…it’s fun!  And I can change sizes of objects without pixelation.  My husband has an extra wide-screen monitor, and any day now we are going to get another video card for my desktop so that I can have not one, but TWO wide-screen monitors.  Any day now.  Annny day.  (tick tock!)  Can you tell I’m anxious?

In the meantime, I’ll have to get by with one.  Next I’m working on converting photos to vectored 3-D graphics.  Gosh, that sounds like it has some depth to it.  Perhaps I should grab a cup of espresso?  YES.

Roast: Espresso blend, Boca Java

Style? Doubleshot, sweetener

Number of the day? Two!

I’ve been having a great time drumming up this new coffee-themed site.  I have to be careful not to stare at it in the evenings, though, or I start craving more java.  I have to limit my coffee intake to mornings and early afternoons, otherwise I’m up all night.  In any case, I started this theme a few days ago, so I’d say that three days from beginning to end–while watching a toddler 24/7–is pretty good.  Once I finally nailed down the theme that felt comfortable, it was easy peasy to create and code.  Mmm, I love a good clean CSS in the morning.

My friend Carrie, owner of Zarily Jewelry, dropped off some jewelry for me to photograph.  I have my new digital camera–a Canon Xi–and I’m excited to get some shots.  I photographed some of the pieces previously, but there was too much directional light and it created awkward shadows.  There is definitely an art to photographing fine jewelry.

Once I get better shots, I’ll put them up on her site prototype.  When we’re ready to unveil it with some products, I’ll be sure to post to let you all know!  I am really enjoying working on her site.  She’s been great about giving me examples of sites she likes and the attributes she appreciates about those sites.  I created her logo off a particularly lovely piece of jewelry she designed, and the color scheme just popped into my head as I was toying around with her signature crimson.  To keep the site light and airy, we’ve gone with a salmon-peach dithered blend on white and black.  It’s feminine, but strong and clear-minded–a bit like Carrie herself.