Inkygirl revamped

Thanks for all the good wishes, everyone. I'm feeling almost normal today.

Last night, Jeff and I played Magic again. We've been playing a couple of times a week, and I'm enjoying it more than I expected. I have a red-green deck, and Jeff is white and blue. I spend way too much time admiring the artwork.



I've revamped Inkygirl, by the way. The cluttered look was driving me batty. It was somewhat of a challenge, rebuilding the template with CSS; I had orginally stripped out all the CSS when I started Inkygirl in Movabletype years ago, just as I did with Blatherings. I've realized I don't yet know enough about CSS to start from scratch yet, so I took the default MT template and heavily modified that instead. Once I'm more comfortable with CSS, I'm going to design a template from scratch.

Anyway, feel free to take a look. Look Ma, no tables! My previous Inkygirl design relied heavily on tables, as does Blatherings; I plan to revamp Blatherings sometime in the future as well. I'm not happy with the colour scheme, so will also be fiddling with that...though with CSS, it means I can more easily change the colour scheme and look when I feel like it...one of the reasons I switched to CSS. Thanks to Ray for the ColorBlender and Color Consultant Pro links; I'm going to check out both.



I still have a lot to do in terms of layout and colours and fonts, but I'm already much happier with the look than before. As I've mentioned in my most recent Inkygirl post, I will also be narrowing the focus of Inkygirl somewhat; I'm no longer going to be maintaining the telecommuting jobs listings part of the site. I already get enough work that I no longer need to comb the job boards every morning.

I'll still be posting shorter entries highlighting useful resources and blogs for writers, but I'm also going to start posting longer articles about the business and craft of writing as well, plus expanding on some of the publishing news I post in Market Watch. And of course I'll keep posting my writing cartoons. :-)

I know the revamped Inkygirl isn't perfect, but I admit I feel stupidly proud of the fact that I've learned enough CSS on my own to do this much in just one day. Hey, and once I'm a CSS expert -- look out, world!

Link O' The Day: I suspect many of you have already seen this, but I hadn't. Thanks to Luisa for pointing me to this Nerdy and White video (Weird Al Yankovich) which made me laugh way too much (and with which I identified way too much :-D). Ray pointed me to the original video, which I also hadn't seen.



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