Friday, December 28, 2007

Today is brought to you by the letters D-I-G-G

I learned a new word today: diggbait. This seems to be a term to describe a page or blogpost that is reactionary, ill-researched, and has industry catch phrases that either excite people or scare them. So far I've typically run into this diggbait on pages that describe the most searched word for the day or that tell you about another company playing big brother and spying on your usage. Is this diggbait a good or bad thing I wonder?

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Monday, October 15, 2007

Getting graphic

With some free time on my hands, albeit very brief, I created this graphic for the members of etsyBead over on Google Groups. In the quest for an avatar for the entire group, I added the holly and berries for their holiday sale. Over 150 stores will be participating and using this as their avatar for the week long sale, which makes me so excited.

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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Current Projects

For the last 8 months, I've been working at Legalzoom.com. The site has been launched and the HTML team is going through errors and cleaning things up that were leftover from the old control site. While I've been devoting most of my time to that project, I've had time to work on a couple of others.


Pea in the Podcast
I redesigned the front end code for this web site and made it a bit more, well, expectant-motherish. I got my design ideas from shopping in the baby department at Target. I reminisced about my daughter being that age, wondering where the time had gone.


Theresa Smith's Discovery Toys Site
I resurfaced my mother's home page for her Discovery Toys venture. Unfortunately, my mother is still using Netscape Composer to edit pages. So the final result on her live site won't look as nice as the version below. *sigh*



I've been getting involved more and more on Etsy, and trying to get some product together so that I can start to sell there. I've plenty of designs coming together and I'm so excited to be getting ready to finally execute them.

Ok Dean, I've posted =).

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