Just a little sneak preview of things to come. This is a very long term project though, because as usual I am making everything from scratch and it has been a very long time since I have done anything but using templates and layouts for MT which wasn't made by me.
It feels good though, to get the mouse dirty and play the switch-a-roo between graphics program, TopStyle and browser, and see the first very rough version come together. So far I think I have the graphics down and mostly the colors as well.
If there's any long time readers still hanging around, they will be able to see that it is going to be quite a change in colors from what I am normally used to using. Brighter, fresher, happier and a lot more airy, instead of the darker, heavier and earth bound schemes I normally use. Don't worry though, I am still an earth gal by heart, but I just felt like trying to get in touch with the air that I am supposed to be.
So far, the biggest challenge has been to find the right font. I changed back and forth, between a couple of different ones, quite a lot before I settled on something which I had not had in the rotation, and it just worked for the look and feel I know I want in this version of Serialpurrs.
It has been ages since I have spent any amount of time playing with graphics for websites as well as coding by hand. Using MovableType almost exclusively, except for a short stint with Wordpress, have made me a bit lazy because everything was right there and mostly done for me already. Usually it was only a few very minor modifications here and there which needed to get done, and certainly not something which could or would take hours or days for me to get done.
It feels good though, to get the mouse dirty and play the switch-a-roo between graphics program, TopStyle and browser, and see the first very rough version come together. So far I think I have the graphics down and mostly the colors as well.
If there's any long time readers still hanging around, they will be able to see that it is going to be quite a change in colors from what I am normally used to using. Brighter, fresher, happier and a lot more airy, instead of the darker, heavier and earth bound schemes I normally use. Don't worry though, I am still an earth gal by heart, but I just felt like trying to get in touch with the air that I am supposed to be.
So far, the biggest challenge has been to find the right font. I changed back and forth, between a couple of different ones, quite a lot before I settled on something which I had not had in the rotation, and it just worked for the look and feel I know I want in this version of Serialpurrs.
It has been ages since I have spent any amount of time playing with graphics for websites as well as coding by hand. Using MovableType almost exclusively, except for a short stint with Wordpress, have made me a bit lazy because everything was right there and mostly done for me already. Usually it was only a few very minor modifications here and there which needed to get done, and certainly not something which could or would take hours or days for me to get done.
