• Sep.
  • 27.
  • 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 mantra in my head, keeps …
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  • Sep.
  • 26.
  • 2007

Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ? Thanks Microsoft.

I used to include helvetica 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, helvetica is a universal font that everyone has installed by default in …
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  • Sep.
  • 21.
  • 2007

Theme Designing,Theme Destroying

Today I got a call from my nicest client whose 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 and started working on 2 …
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  • Sep.
  • 19.
  • 2007

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 me. …
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