robot pirate scorpion

intro:
i may not have mentioned this before, but one of my short-term goals for this experiment is to try to write more often. i thought it would be interesting to write one post every day, but lately i’ve realized that that is probably not possible. i have too many other things to do (start playing music more, working on some design projects, homework, read more, etc.) so this is taking more and more of a back seat-maybe not as much as some other projects. another block i see to this being more a more regular activity is lack of one main item-a camera. so i can write a shitload about random ideas and events and whatnot. i feel that with a camera, and in turn photographs, this would be way more interesting. so i’m going to pursue that. i’m going to try to get a camera as soon as possible, or at least draw some diagrams or something. a camera will also help with the job i’m working on, but more on that in a sec. as stated, i’m not going to be updating this daily. i’m going to update it as much as i can and hope that it’s once a day. so here goes.

in racking my brain trying to figure out what to write today, i realized that i was taking a break from something that was stressing me out which was also a break from something else that was stressing me out. i have a tentative job to finish which is already way overdue. a local establishment has given me the opportunity to create a website for them.
in my usual fashion, i managed to take something that could probably be finished in an afternoon and turned it into a stressful drawn-out affair. i got caught up in learning some “slick” new CSS and XHTML shite, and still haven’t finished an acceptable version of the site i can show them. i spent way too much time focusing on details like trying to make suitable dropdown menus with only CSS and HTML and no JavaScript or images. also, the DTD stumped me for way too long and caused unnecessary headaches. why? because instead of focusing on the job, i was getting caught up in unimportant details like i always do. i hope that the finished product will look suitable. ‘ll have the main layout finished and ready to be filled with their content. all that’s missing are a few pictures and a logo or two. i’ll post the link once it’s finished.

the upside to this, aside from a potentially paying gig, is that i’ve learned a lot more about CSS. i’ve seen some pretty impressive things, and have a bunch of sites that i can use for “inspiration”.

one benefit, though, is that i got the dropdown menu to work. no images and no javascript. the site looks pretty clean, even elegant, and i’m not sure if that’s what they want. i’m hoping they’ll appreciate simplicity, but you never know. simplicity and minimal layout/design can be confused with incompetence and bland style fairly easily. i guess i’ll just have to show them a draft and hope it works out without me having to start from scratch.