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So, what is it about when it’s raining it’s pouring?

Finally heard back about the Xerox gig, and that’s not gonna be happening, but I did get a $350 contract instead, and possibly more down the line.  I also finally have AJ’s singer’s website underway.  Layout for what it will be is at http://leeyajewell.com/design_images/

And then a gig with possibly helping an up-and-coming author, and a computer repair one all on the side are keeping me occupied.

Whew.  I’ll manage.  I’m glad to have it.

Found what looks like an ideal, simple CMS system.  cmsmadesimple, or CMSMS.  I’ll start playing about with it shortly.

http://safalra.com/web-design/javascript/mac-style-dock/

Great new way to implement a menu system.  I’m contemplating using it for a portfolio page.

Hrm … maybe I should make a list on useful java scripts.  Both for anyone else to reference, and for myself to have portable bookmarks on!

First up:  Lightbox 2.  http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/

Fantastic article over at Smashing Magazine.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/16/jquery-examples-and-best-practices/

Covers how to do javascript properly.  So that if it doesn’t work, it at least doesn’t break.

live it.  love it.

Mondays are going to be very tiring, I can tell.

Okay, maybe not quite, but I finally cleared up a day and put together a business front-end site.

ArcherWebDesigns.com

Not all the links work yet, and not all the content is finished, but it’s tentatively the look and feel I like.

Open to any critique.

Talk about a hot rod!  Whoo!

I for one am loving Google’s new Chrome browser.  Aside from the minor glitch of not supporting Java Applets, it’s slick like whoa, and one hell of a speed demon.

Go download it now.

Well, I finished the tentative spec work for SmallTreeMedia.  Based on a quick google search, it seems that they’re based out of Hong Kong.  I hope they’re for real.

Here’s what I worked up for them:

http://www.stephanis.info/crazycute/index.htm

Waiting on hearing back from Jonathan about the Xerox opportunity, and now Charlie about the SmallTreeMedia one.

Time to burrow in for the long winter.  (Of our discontent?  No, don’t think so.)

But at least I have a good book to read.  For my birthday, Katherine got me a copy of the Library of America edition of H.P. Lovecraft’s Tales.  Started reading it yesterday (it just arrived yesterday) and it was just a pleasure.  Finally read “The Statement of Randolph Carter” — which I’ve been putting off for awhile, and it’s a great example of his earlier work.  And, I suppose, a wonderful introduction to the uninitated.  Probably a 15-minute read.