Introducing @designs v3:

Finally had a chance to put this up. Overall it was fairly hassle free, as I’d solved most of the headaches in the previous design. The eyes belong to Jessica Chamberlain. Classy.

Head over to JWKCC for another new look:

Many thanks to Shontail Lewis and Sadie Clement for all their help!
More professional, cleaner, and better in general. Added some nifty coding for usability and goodness. In it’s original form, I’d used a different photo which was sweet and better balanced the design (see the first photo here). However, I swapped it out to appease a few people, who considered the sight of a family reading together the equivalent of finding Elvis, alive and well, on their doorsteps. Impossible. (As a librarian’s daughter I can debunk that theory, but each to their own.)

All told, I’m very happy with the new looks. Makes me want to give this place a makeover. If I had the time.

I have a final draft of JWKC Classic finished in a photoshop file, and am debating whether to begin coding tonight. If I did, I could (possibly) get it done for tomorrow’s meeting. Plus I’m shooting Sadie’s kids tomorrow for the site as well…but unless I do a rotating banner I don’t plan on changing the design.

Last Saturday, Alan and Matt and I stopped at Micro Center (think huge computer parts store, with video games, bags, and books). I picked up a web design magazine, and while flipping through saw Moveable Type listed as a top open source app.
“Moveable Type is not open source!” I said. “What idiots.”
However, I googled it this evening to see if I was wrong. Low and behold, MT does have an open source option, available since last December. It’s an interesting decision, considering it’s too little and way too late for most of us.

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