Making it obvious that I don't know what I'm doing
You know, so I get this email from iStockPhoto saying that I have these credits that will expire, so I go looking for something to use them on and then I see this cool Valentine's day art, and I figure what the hell, except I only have 8 credits left and it costs 14, and of course that is their whole point. Don't let these credits go to waste! All you have to do is spend more money! But because I'm a sucker I do it because, what the hell, that old banner was looking a bit done anyway. But I don't let them entirely gouge me, because as with anything if you google "relevant website name here + discount code" odds are you can at least find 10% off pretty much any purchase on the interwebs. Anyway, so I get the credits and I buy the art and then I open up Illustrator to put my text on it, which is kind of like me opening up someone to do heart surgery. I pretty much know where the big pieces are but ask me to do anything that involves expertise and, well, patient's dead. So I insert the text I make up off the top of my head, and I pick a pretty font, and I make it about the right size. Then I open up Photoshop, wherein I at least know which end is up (although not really) (trust me, Adobe's embarrassed about me having ever been an employee there) and make it wide enough to fit the space on my blog, although it kind of doesn't really fit properly but shit, whatever. So then I realize all the greens and blues kind of look like ass with the pink and black, so then I have to go into the code of the template and that's when it's really time to laugh because seriously. I pick through and go, huh. That looks like it might be the right one. So I change the hex code and all of a sudden the whole blog turns fuchsia and I can't figure out how to change it back but luckily I haven't saved anything so I can revert back, except then I lose everything else I changed the way I wanted to change so then I get to start from scratch. This is the definition of "knows enough to be dangerous", people.
Anyway. Happy Valentine's Month, lookit me, getting all festive. Watch this be up til Easter or something.
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The only thing that could make this delightful stream of consciousness rant better would be if you omitted any and all paragraph breaks to make it sound that much more chaotic.
Oh wait, you did.
And dude, I'm with you on template smashing. I'm never happy with 42 Points because I always tweak just a little too much. Ferchrissakes my site is currently mustard yellow.
Oh dude you have no idea. You know the last banner? The green one? When I made it it was blue. When I uploaded it it turned green. Bright yellowy green. No clue why.
I just can't stop laughing.
I would blame it all on the lame Corel product :-) I'm still using JASC PSP 7.
For basic graphics stuff you could just use an online editor like Lunapic (free, online)
or download a very simple graphic editor,
Photofiltre (free)
for html use something real simple like webdwarf (free)
or if your lucky and ask really nicely you could get your disabled Army friend that lays around all day to do it for you.
Ooh dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
The difficulty with blaming it on the Corel product is that the Corel product doesn't run on my Mac. Oh, snap. Will check out the other stuff though, thanks!
I think it turned out pretty sweet, though.
I found a great solution for your graphic editing problem...yes it works on the mac and its free!
http://pinta-project.com/
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