i have finished the website for my art history group project! well, it’s mostly done. one member of our group hasn’t finished her portion, so you may notice that the “renoir” page is blank. this is due tuesday, so hopefully she’ll have it finished tomorrow… all the information is up and functional!

please please please let me know if it looks okay in your browser! also, if you see any errors (coding, formating, or spelling), please let me know asap! thanks so much : )

STATUS: ONLINE

i have completely updated my portfolio. exciting stuff.

basically, i tried to put all the posts in there that have anything to do with websites i’ve designed or logos i’ve made.

i also had to deal with the downloadable template situation. if you weren’t around here in 2004-2006, i used to design website templates available for the public to download. i used a php program called the crappymatic that would customize my templates to fit the user. i had totally forgotten about in 2007 and somehow i managed to delete a crucial php file. so for a year or so my templates have been doing nothing, sitting useless in my portfolio without even previews. that’s all fixed now. you can look at the templates—some have live previews, others have full size screen shots—but you can’t download them.

so that’s pretty much it. let me know if you see anything wonky going on.

okay, so no one will go with me to the mc lars show on saturday (how can i be the only person i know that loves this man so much?). but he will also be visiting record archive the same afternoon, so i can see him then at least. plus i haven’t been in like two weeks, which is unacceptable. but i’ll need a ride back from the ’seo…

haha and mc lars is looking for a web designer! i emailed him, but i doubt i’ll get a response. still worth giving it a stab!

hey, guys, can you do me a favor? i entered a banner in this hewlett packard graphic design contest, could you vote for me? you don’t have to register or anything, just click “VOTE!”

VOTE HERE : )

the songs to wear pants to website is finally done and launched!

this website is officially the most time-consuming project i’ve taken on. haha, actually, andrew contacted me in august and we started in september. but i really didn’t do much work until january, it was just countless mockups before that.

what i did:
- made the graphics
- made infinity mockups
- made a barebones layout mockup
- installed wordpress
- coded the template
- recoded the template
- set up the forum
- redid the graphics
- recoded the template

so it’s been a pretty crazy time. but i think it turned out well. yay!

STATUS: ONLINE

i really only did three things today.

(1) i outlined chapters in three different textbooks for more than 6 hours.

(2) i ran into a door after being hit with a nerf gun by a group of very rowdy boys from 3 south.

(3) i worked on the songs to wear pants to website for an unreasonable amount of time (it’s not online currently, but my work in progress is here).

AAANNNNNDDDDD, imaclanni.com looks fantastic in all browsers on all computers!

that took way longer than it should have. anyway, i figured out that ie really despises negative margins, so i had to overhaul most of the layout to get rid of them and work around that fact. but it worked out, so i suppose it was worth it. though it’s not like i have anything else to do right now, i have to wait for megan to get out of class so i can get in the room. i’m just sitting in the computer lab at the union being all brilliant (grabbed a pc right next to a mac so i could do a simulogin and two-hand it). same ol’ same ol’. not.

reasons for making a new layout:
- the old one was falling apart (coding-wise)
- many plugins i wished to implement were incompatible with my previous layout
- i needed something more professional

things i like about this new layout:
- it’s simple
- it uses minimal images (loads faster)
- it works with all my plugins
- the sidebar is on top
- it uses my new favorite font, lucida grande
- the post meta info. is on the side of the entries
- the unordered link lists have cool hovers
- i was able to install threaded comments! (more on that below)

what i need from windows users:
i would really appreciate some screenshots of the site on a pc, in both firefox and internet explorer. i have absolutely no idea if the site looks okay or not, and i really want to know.

about the new commenting system:
imaclanni.com now has threaded comments! that means instead of responding to a comment at the end of the list, you can now directly reply to a specific comment by hitting “reply” at the end of said post. you can even reply to a reply. it’s really nifty, and it makes communicating easier for us all. let me know if you run into any trubs with it, i’ll help you out.

STATUS: ONLINE

i’m currently updating the site. you will find that most of the pages aren’t exactly working. i know. so come back later.

ETA: the only things left to do now are to style this and that. oh, fyi, the comments do work, they just aren’t styled yet. feel free to use them.

ETA2: um, i’ll finish this later. i have to go to work soon. and i’m having a sleepover tonight. so maybe tomorrow.

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as you can tell in the screenshots, i’ve been working on a new site design since mid-october, and i finally have it the way i want it. the coding is going to be crazy since i’m going to have a lot of different kinds of positioning, but that’s not what this post is about.

i can’t decide on a color! so i’d appreciate it if you helped me out by commenting with the number of the one you like the best. thanks!

i recently made a post in a livejournal community called craftgrrl with a bunch of photos of crafty stuff i’ve done. it’s here, comment if you want : )

i’m really itching to redesign the site. before i start, i wanted to ask and see if anyone had any ideas of new features i should add, or thing i should get rid of. any feedback is really fantastic.

i took a photo of all the sunglasses i currently have in my collection, complete with specs and estimated values. so take a look at that (click on the thumbnail).