Holy Heck, it's a Blog Redesign!

A fresh new year means a fresh new look for The Sunset House!

I have been majorly MIA, but for good reason. My blog received a head-to-toe overhaul. A makeover. New threads. Spring cleaning. The works! I even redesigned my bloggie mascot–the tiny birdie favicon on your browser tab. And, despite the fact that I know next to nothing about CSS, JavaScript, or Adobe Illustrator, I’m content with the way everything turned out. Well, the spacing still looks all funkdafied in different versions of IE (e.g. IE6). If you use something other than Firefox or IE7+, you’re only allowed to check the site through a reader!

I kid.

I’ve just had my fair share of CSS nightmares over the last few days. Semicolons were chasing me in my dreams and pounding me with angry open brackets. I’m done messing with the site for now… or at least until the perfectionist voice inside my head starts nagging me about why I picked a hard-to-read font in my design. I also noticed that this new wordpress theme throws off all the line spacing on my blog when I use happy faces. Grrr. I guess I’ll have to start spelling out all my happy faces. Colon, close parenthesis. (Hmm. Not the same effect.)

After all the WordPress coding headaches, can I tell you how much I appreciate all the computery codey people, out there? It is so stinkin’ annoying, trying to get a site to look the same in IE, Firefox, and the various other billion versions of browsers. Yes, all code people are seriously under appreciated. Thank you for making my online shopping experiences seamless, whether I’m at my computer at work or at home.

At least I learned a few neat tricks in the process, like the image swap when someone does a mouse-over on the links my right sidebar. I also had a chance to test the Wacom Bamboo tablet that Hubs gave me. In fact, I used it to draw the clothesline illustration in my header image. I looooove Adobe Illustrator. I’m no artist, but with that program, I can fake the funk. Hooray for no eraser marks!

Anyway, I hope you like the look! With the hours I spent scouring the internet for coding resources, I haven’t had much crafty time, so I don’t have many new projects to share. I still have quite a bit of blog tweaking to do too, so hopefully the construction dust will be cleaned up soon. Next week, I should be back to my regularly scheduled posting.

Happy 2009, everyone!