Posts Tagged ‘ranty mcpanty’

A Short Discourse on font-family Papyrus

People in the ARTS. Please! Stop it right now. Stop using Papyrus!
I know you teach Yoga.I know you make beaded jewelry or ceramic crafts. I know you teach dance or movement of some kind. I know you are artistic and sensitive. But you still make me want to slap your face when I see that [...]

Is being a designer like being a contractor?

Well, no because one still doesn’t need to have a license in order to be a working web designer.
But the comparison came to me while I was watching a home improvement show called Holmes on Homes where Mr.Holmes comes in and repairs the shoddy work of contractors who have basically skipped town with the money.
He [...]

What burns my britches.

I’m a freelance web designer who prides herself on the fact that I care about web standards as well as design. There are lots of people who go on and on about the fact that that’s just a load of hog-wash (they probably don’t believe in Global Warming,either). So they load up Microsoft Frontpage [...]

Kicking against the pricks

Why must everything be such a hassle?
Hassle One: My new account with Powweb is totally bolloxed. I was twiddling my dainty thumbs for 2 days waiting for some mess to clear up with how CGI gets enabled for new accounts so that I could get going setting up my dad’s new site just to find [...]