rhapsodic.org

Woke Up and Hated Everything

I refuse to tell you how long this design has been 80% completed and waiting to be implemented. Just know that it's been long enough that Steve commented today, "Haven't you already used that design?" Um, no. I just showed it to him FOREVER AGO.

Let's take a little tour, shall we?

Up above the gerber daisy is my latest Twitter message. I love Twitter because it's just like IM away messages for the rest of the internet. Now that I have it at the top of every page, I'll remember to update it more often with something witty. You can click the little "More" link to follow me on Twitter, if that's your thing.

On your right there's a brief explanation of what the hell is going on here and who I am. Clicking through "More About Valette" should bring you to my full About page that also needs updated, but considering how long it took me to get the new design up, I'll probably get around to it sometime in 2013.

There is also an accompanying photo of me that will change every day, because I'm doing a self-portrait every day at least through November. Which is CRAZY EGOTISTICAL, I know, but it's really helping me with my photography. Think about photographing the same subject 365 different ways, a subject that is critical about everything you do and has lumpy thighs and a pudgy belly and who won't let you Photoshop any fat out. Sounds fun, no?

Under that are some of my recent photos, but instead of linking to the photo's page on Squeegie, they link through to Flickr. I take more photos than I will be displaying here, but if you want to comment on anything you need to have a Flickr account. Mom, I'm looking right at you.

My interweb-surfing quick-links are still there, as are my "latest" dreams and the weather report for Anchorage, even though the weather in Fairbanks is so much more interesting.

I've moved the rest of my old sidebar content to the footer at the very bottom of the page. It's bright green, you can't miss it.

Everything else is really basically the same.

Here are a list of things I see are not working well/at all:

• yearly archive page is cramped and fugly
• two-lined post titles aren't doing it for me
• the about page has rejected all kinds of formatting
• the list of recent archives in the footer is still pointing to the dummy site
• that favicon is from 2004, blech ick
• forgot about blockquotes
• weird white margin on the right side of the footer sometimes
• all archives listing page is too spread out
• the three flickr shots isn't the three most recent in the set
• #speak anchor is MIA
• twitter link is empty

Let me know if something else is broken, but if you hate it terribly I just don't want to know because I'm not putting anything else up for another 10 years.