WIP #1: daisyjanie.com website
For the past month or so, I've been working here & there on updating my website, daisyjanie.com - screenshot above. Since I first created daisyjanie.com - back in 2005! - I've gone through a lot of changes, both style-based and product-based. Heck, back then, we used to walk 10 miles to school small, like-minded businesses linked to one another to maximize search engine optimization. How funny is that?! "I really like your website. Do you wanna exchange links?"
Except for a few short months in the 1st year, I have always done all of my own coding and programming for the website's html pages as well as the ecommerce shop. But just like everything with technology, there's always a better, faster way to do things from year-to-year, and daisyjanie.com became outmoded. Not necessarily from what you could see on your screen; it was primarily all the code that runs in the background that makes it GO!
I'm happy to say that I just completed Phase I of Project Website Revamp! I converted the entire daisyjanie.com website from tables, rows and columns (dinosaurs) to div tags and css. Again, it may not look different to you b/c I maintained a very similar layout, but it was a TON of work behind the scenes. TON! Made even more challenging by the fact that my copy of Dreamweaver is from 1999. [ahem] I used web developer forums for troubleshooting, and I also LOVE w3schools online web tutorials. Free, very easy to comprehend and you can try stuff out! I encourage you to try their tutorials, if you'd like to garner a better understanding of how html and css work.
Take a peek at daisyjanie.com and lemme know what you think! There is a very cool slideshow on the main page that will give you a very tactile impression of Shades of Grey in a visual format! I also made some style changes to the Daisy Janie blog to make it more consistent with the website.
Project Website Revamp, Phase II is now underway (ecommerce). If you don't see me tweeting or blogging for awhile, you'll know where I am (saaaaaavvvveeeee meeeee.....)
WIP #2: duvet cover.
In between frustrations and elations with the website revamp, I've been working on this queen-sized duvet cover. For a pattern. Yes, a real pattern! That will be for sale on the website - when Phase II is complete! p.s. is it redundant to say "duvet cover"?
For this pattern, I started with a layout / design FIRST, instead of winging a quilt as I go and taking notes I'm not able to interpret 1 month later. Not smart, Jan. Can't wait to share!
What are you working on?
