APRIL 22, 2008

Doesn't feel like this redesign is ready to post, it's still at the point where putting it online feels like going out in public only to realize I forgot to put on pants (I'm not the only one that happens to, right?), but I've tweaked images to the millipixel and combed through code like the posterkid for anal retentiveness, so there's not much more I can do other than post it. Or start working on a new design but, since Ross would strangle me if I deemed yet another design no good and started working on my 5,547,292 attempt, I'll stick with this. For now.

That said, I've tried to ensure my site can withstand the grueling series of tubes that is the internet, but there are still possible issue, like the fact that the only browsers I can test this in are Safari and Camino, so I'm not sure this will display ok for people using microsoft operating systems and browsers. But if you're a pc/ie user and this doesn't display right for you, a good way to fix that is to get a Mac. Or you can email me about the problem, but a Mac is the better solution.

As for the Prague theme, it happened by accident when as I was working on a different, more complex design but got stymied so I took a break and started toying with photoshop and that's when Prague coyly took over my design. But when the Golden City comes calling what are you going to do, say no? Ah, if you think Prague allows you any say as to her place in your heart, you've obviously never been there (or you've been there but have no soul). Because Praha "grabs and burns with her sly glances, bewitches and transforms the unwary who enter her walls. I too writhe bewitched inside her crystal ball."

God, I love that city, feel like I left part of my soul there, which is why I love the photo up top of this page. That's Prague's Old Town Square and the purple star just to the left of the white church on the right marks the apartment Ross and I stayed in the two weeks we were in Prague and, in a city known for taking hearts hostage, nothing will do that to you more than living on Old Town Square. With St. Nicholas on one side of us, the Astronomical Clock on the other, and the Tyn Church, Jan Hus memorial, and Kinsky Palace right across the Square... Swoon.

So this new design is literally a snapshot of one of the best times of my life and perhaps that is the reason I inadvertently went with a Prague motif. With the northwest having one of the most dismal springs on record (it actually snowed last week!) and the news constantly yammering on about war, high gas and food prices, and the economy taking a nosedive, I've very much been needing a shot of brightness and cheer and Prague very much delivers on that account.

listening: moby . reading: ---

walk: 40 minutes . weight lost: 17 pounds

HOME  |  ARCHIVES