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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
Jean Houston

Broken By Code

September 26, 2005

Note to self: never code when on the rag. If screaming at the screen doesn’t help things, crying on the keyboard probably won’t, either.

Maybe it’s the hormones talking, but I’m feeling freakishly overworked right now. I’ve got three sites of my own to design and launch within the next month, as well as redesigning and relaunching my mother’s work site. Then there’s homework, which is baffling and boring and tends to leave me face-down on the floor after inhaling too much eraser dust. And my husband (bless his heart) picked this time to buy a whole crapload of new domains and ask me to design them all for him. That’s at least seven sites, and I know I’m forgetting a few. So, for the record, if you’re thinking about asking me to design something for you, the answer is NO. At least for the next few months.

My goal for all my sites, as it has always been, is to create the perfect layout(s) and leave it perfect; I want to focus on content, not design. Change is good, yes, I know that, but it’s the content that should be freshly-tossed, not the layout. Why mess with what ain’t broken? Divinest Sense continues to draw return visitors despite having had the same layout (or a very similar one) for over two years. People rarely remember the domain name, or even my name; they remember “the swirly site”. Ideally, I’d like people to remember Without Feathers as “the site with the flying guy”. Even more ideally, I’d like to never participate in CSS Reboot again. Not that it isn’t great fun and all, but the last thing I need is more deadlines to meet.

Okay. Moving on. Trying not to let hormones and code exhaustion get in the way of amusing anecdotes. Hey! This is amusing! Oh, wait… no, it’s ewmusing. See why I don’t eat meat?