April 30, 2007

• Website, Whee!

  kay, okay.  I just wanted to alliterate.  Ignore the bridal squeal at the end of the title.  It’s been a long while since I’ve blogged due to searching high and low for an apartment [Blugh.  Yes, that's a word.], finding one [whew], moving the bear in [meh], starting to pack my own place up [double meh, but at least I have a month to move], squeezing in my company retreat to Napa [Whee! For real this time!], dealing with some family health issues [:(], and all this while both of us were extraordinarily busy at work [as in busier than we've been in over a year].  Gotta love how life always works that way.  Needless to say, the wedding planning got pushed to the back burner for a bit.  Fear not, for I am back with a few fun updates!

  So to the real update.  My most amazing roommate [Only for another month.  *sniff*], who freelances on the side [she's in the middle of a re-design of her site] is very close to finishing our website so it can finally go live.  Up until last month, I was procrastinating majorly on it.  I thought I could DImYself despite the fact I haven’t designed a full website in about 5 years.  Yes, web technology has advanced quite a bit since then.  I designed the concept and pages I wanted in Adobe Illustrator, then she translated it into web-ready fun for me, and finally she took my basic layout and ran with it, producing much cooler features than I would have though of on my own.

  Enough jibba jabba.  Time for screenshots.
  

  “About” page, with minimal information.  My favorite part is the photo of us, which was taken 5 minutes after we first talked.
  

  Our anonymous peeps.
  

  This bad hostess did not block any hotel rooms, albeit for a variety of good reasons.  Instead, I’ve suggested fun hotels depending on what area of SoCal they’d want to stay in. 
  
  
  Clicking on one of “the” hotels above yields a pop-up window like this:
  

  Yay for L.A.!
  

  I spy our wedding colors in the graffiti art.
  

  Yummy slivers of our engagement photos.
  

  Click on a slice, and you get this, complete with my favorite dots to navigate forward and back.
  

  Work in progress. Yep, this page and a few others need a few tweaks, but we are so close to done and live!
  

  Alright, so I guess I jibba jabba’ed even through the photo presentation.  I hope you enjoyed, and I hope the categories/pages helped those of you working on yours.  I know I stalked random people’s wedding websites while working on mine. Muhahahaha!

  [all photos by M. Norwood Photography.]

  *today’s letter O, courtesy of fromoldbooks.org.

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