Big thanks to Hannah and her husband Jason for teaming up on the new banner images on my site. Jason took the pictures (around the office park where I used to work, appropriately enough), and Hannah edited them to say “I Hate Your Job.”
It’s the first of many improvements to the appearance of this site that I hope to accomplish with her help. I’m still somewhat HTML, CSS, and PHP ignorant, so it’s taking me several rounds of trial and error to figure out how to make the changes to the site layout that I want to make.
She’s working on a logo for the site as well, and once I have that in hand, Elysa has generously offered to redesign my woeful myspace page for me. (You should read the email she sent me, “Chuck, your myspace page is horrible. By the way, my name is Elysa, and I’d be willing to fix it for you for free.”)
So thanks Hannah, Jason, and Elysa. I appreciate your willingness to help!
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9 responses so far ↓
1 Peggy // Oct 17, 2007 at 3:22 pm
cute banner up there….
Been out of town and must catch up….
2 Joanne // Oct 17, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Haha, it definitely is a continuous trial and error when maintaining/tweaking a site…I’ve minimal html knowledge and only discovered what CSS editing meant when I started blogging. I’ll be keeping an eye out for all your major and minor changes!
3 Deron Sizemore // Oct 17, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Cool change with the header images. I like!
4 JoeDrinker // Oct 17, 2007 at 11:58 pm
I like the revised headers. I especially like the ones on the individual post pages.
5 Chuck Westbrook // Oct 18, 2007 at 12:22 am
@Joanne– It’s not always hard to spot when I’m making changes. It usually involves something being horribly out of place and/or breaking completely. Today, my blog reverted back to the default theme when I tried to modify a style sheet…
@Deron Sizemore– Thanks! I was thrilled when she showed them to me. Who knows what she’ll come up with next?
@Joe Drinker– They’re supposed to be totally random with no regard for whether you’re on the home page or an individual post. Sometimes it’s a little sporadic though and some seem to come up more than others. Regardless, I’m glad you like them, thanks for letting me know.
6 elysa // Oct 24, 2007 at 10:56 am
I love the new banner as well. I don’t think I actually said horrible did I?
7 Chuck Westbrook // Oct 24, 2007 at 11:17 am
@elysa– I don’t think so, no ; ) In fact, you said, “would you like someone to design you a myspace thing, no offense but yours is pretty pitiful. If you only have 2 friends maybe you should a) hide friend count b) get some friends hehe”
I personally love that you were honest with me about it. I didn’t mean that to be a dig at all. I thought it was charming.
8 elysa // Oct 24, 2007 at 11:21 am
I suppose pitiful is not too far off from horrible haha. Anyways, we will get that problem solved soon.
9 Chuck Westbrook // Oct 24, 2007 at 1:57 pm
@elysa– I’m looking forward to it. I have to go at Hannah’s pace, though, and she’s a busy gal who’s basically doing me oodles of favors.
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