#can't stop coding

So design is hard.  I don't know who these people are who are just naturally good at it, but I am jealous of them.  Is there a Design Bootcamp?  I would so do it.

Over the past few days I spent many hours perfecting div placement and styling and box shadows and all that jazz for my personal website. And I was real proud of my cool responsive grid system, right up until I woke up this morning and realized my opus magnum was a hideous monstrosity.  Seriously, that thing was like Quasimodo, but way more shrunken and twisty and probably sporting an extra arm or something.

I kinda wanted to gouge out my eyes, but instead I did the responsible thing and just nuked my CSS.  ALL GONE.  No styling at all, except for the leftover grid system classes.

Spent all morning redoing my styling and arrived at a less repulsive but rather uninspiring page.  It had a few good qualities, but it was almost too boring to be dislikable, really.  Lots of white space, and not in a good way.

But never fear!  Because this afternoon I focus-grouped a couple of my fellow DBC-ers and spent some time chatting with Danny, who is our resident front-end genius.  (He took a break from working on Survey Doge, which I cannot wait to see in its completed form on Monday.  I may die.  Of joy.)

Anyway, the outcome of all this idea-bouncing and random website stalking seems to have been some kind of inspiration by osmosis--I finally have a vision for what I want my website to look like.  And I think it's kind of awesome.  I'm excited about how it's going to turn out.

Spent the last four hours styling up a decent prototype of version 3.0.  Tomorrow I'm going to figure out how implement an image carousel, which will be sweet.  So psyched!