Hate It

I'm going to redesign my website again. I know the new design has only been up for a month or two, and when I was doing the redesign I liked it. It was long since overdue because I wanted to cover a lot of things that weren't touched on at all in the old design. The current design covers them and well, but it lost way too much personality in the process. It became too much 'business', not enough 'fun'. The site no longer feels like 'me and my stuff'.

I also cut a lot of corners making the site so it's not search engine friendly. At all. That needs to be fixed as well. I meant to do it and kept putting it off, and now I realize that's because I'm really not at all happy with the current design. I already have a really good idea for a new one, so I plan to start working on that probably by September/October, depending on other projects.

It's horrible when a good plan falls short, but I guess that's just proof that we're growing. It's also proof that I need to give up being fancy and dust off my html and my color chart hexagrams and stop relying on ImageReady because it makes me want to go overboard on the pretty and make Practical walk the plank.

Anyway, I just have edits to do now before 'Girls Only' will be premiering on subsequentvisions.com, so that should be on site by next weekend, life permitting. Exciting, huh? Well, okay, maybe only for me right now, but I hope everyone will enjoy it.

My July 4th weekend starts in a bit over an hour, and I'm probably going to miss the fireworks again this year. Last year it rained. This year Mike is working until closing, so unless I can catch a few sitting on my deck I guess I'm s.o.l. I don't even know what day they're supposed to be on, really. A little depressed about that--I love fireworks--but not the end of the world.

Dad might pop by tomorrow, but other than that no terribly exciting plans for the weekend--lots of cleaning and generic repair work, plus some art projects that desparately need my attention. (I'm on a tight schedule this summer.) I'm going to try to get as much of the housework and errands done tonight as I can so I can actually enjoy my three-day weekend--or spend it with a pencil and heavy duty eraser--either way.

Well, guess that's all that's going on right now--and all I have time to write about. As exciting as ever, I know, but what're ya gonna do? I don't have time to go out and get a life. ;p