Archive for September, 2007

Bring the pain, the plugin pain.

I have a sweetie pie of a client who is very nice and everything but every little design change they ask for (and they ask for very many) and which I then implement has to be tweaked about 30,000 times before they are happy.
Completely understandable. It is their site. I just keep chanting this [...]

Arial,Helvectica,sans-serif ? Oh thanks Microsoft.

I used to include Helvectica in my font string by rote. I never really looked at it in action. I admit I never thought much about it. Until I wanted to use some new fonts and wondered why the next font down in my font string showed. Well, Helvectica is a universal [...]

Theme Designing,Theme Destroying

Today I got a call from my nicest client who’s site I have been tweaking since the spring. She wanted to tell me a few problems she was still having with the site(mostly typography issues,spacing,etc).
I felt a little guilty because I began to get these problems in line last week then dropped the ball [...]

My Head is exploding!

I wanted more work.
I got more work.
Then I got too much work with offers of more work on top of that!
It’s all repeat clients, too. Not one ad I answered paid off.To know me is to love me, I guess.
My boyfriend’s youngest brother came to stay with us right as this wave of work hit [...]