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After much consideration, Kittyloaf Designs has moved to its own hosting. I’ve moved all of the important images with the site, but some of the photos from the blog are missing and I probably will not be replacing them. Its just too much work on a very minor part of the site. That said, I think everything of importance is how it should be. If you find something missing in another section, please let me know! I received my new laptop this afternoon and have everything transferred over and ready to go. Getting used to it, but should be back at work on the 30 Day Drawing Challenge soon. It has a 10-key, so the whole keyboard is smaller, which is causing a lot of typos. Give me a few days though and I’ll be used to it. I’m also going to be delayed on working on my drawing because I’m going to be working on my inventory for the craft sale next month. I’m hoping to have at least 25 items besides jewelry by the date. There also may be a death in the family soon. I was in the process of transferring my files to the new machine when the idiot puppy dropped an external hard drive onto the closed case of the old laptop, shattering half the screen. I was going to try to sell it, but now I’m trying to sell it for parts. Ugh. Not happy about that at all, but nothing I can do about it. Anyway, if you’re interested in a Dell Inspiron 1545 that needs a new screen, check our my eBay auctions at the link in the navigation. At this point I’d be happy with $50.00. Thanks a lot, dog! Since I am having so many issues with this laptop now, and my new one should be here by next Wednesday, and I just backed all my files up, I am going to put off working on the 30 day drawing challenge until I get everything set up on the new machine. Hopefully I will be ready to work again by Wednesday night. I’m definitely looking forward to it. I went to Dell’s website today after deciding to replace it, and looked around. I have purchased three laptops form them over the years, two for myself, and one for my boyfriend, and overall they have been very good machines and Dell has excellent customer service and warranties. I settled on a refurbished Inspiron 15R, which better stats than the machine I have now, and at about the same price as what I paid for this one. It has a 2.53 GHz processor, 500 GB hard drive, 4 GB RAM, and of course Win 7 64-bit. I should be receiving it in about 6 days. What am I going to do with this one? I’m listing it on eBay and hoping to get at least $50 out of it. Whatever I get for it will go towards paying the new one off, which either way will be done by the end of this year. So if you want a laptop for parts (case, screen, all outer parts are in excellent condition) check my eBay auctions in about a week. Starting bid will be between $25.00 and $50.00. You want your picture drawn in return for a $5.00 PayPal donation? Make your donation, and after I receive it, I’ll email you for some information about you. Tell me a bit about yourself, and I’ll get to work. I’ll draw your portrait in Adobe Illustrator, using my best judgement and perception of you based on what you’ve told me. Assume I will put about an hour into your portrait, give or take 15 minutes. So, send me your donation, which is approximately 1% of my monthly living expenses, tell me the things you think are important about you, (name, age, gender, favorite hobbies/pastimes, race, height, weight, whatever you deem important) and I’ll create a masterpiece. Want to see an example? Look no further! Here’s one right now! This person described herself as “I am a 30 yr old white female I am about 5’4″ 160lbs I am a single parent so my bigest passion is my kids but I also enjoy photography. I will be starting college soon. I’m an animal lover, love to dance, go for walks, camping, long drives to nowhere etc.” I decided to focus on the photography and outdoors angle, since I’m not very good at drawing people. I know, and I’m offering to do portraits? Ha! And yes, I know that camera would not and could not produce Polaroids. But it was fun to draw them. Click to enlarge the image.
I’ve been working to help a friend solve a problem with a WordPress theme he developed to match an existing website, and while the first half of his problem was very easy to solve once I realized what was causing it, the second half is proving difficult. In short, this is the problem. On all page views except the main page and the single posts pages, everything displays properly. On the main page and the single post pages, the footer is not displaying correctly- it appears that the CSS is rendering incorrectly, and looks as though one of the graphics is layering over the text instead of the other way around. This is making the text in the footer on those two pages unreadable. Because this is a WordPress theme issue, its got my stumped because the call for the footer is the same on all pages, so shouldn’t the footer be displaying the same way on all the pages? I’ve examined the php files for all pages and calls, I’ve examined the source code for the rendered pages. I cannot find anything wrong beyond a few very minor mistakes which I have since corrected. If anyone reading this could offer some insight to this problem we would be very grateful. I believe the problem to be something simple and overlooked but I’m currently out of ideas to be honest. Whether you were ever aware of a problem or not, I had numerous issues while being hosted at GoDaddy.com. This site would be down and inaccessible almost every time I tried to access it or update it, and GoDaddy’s answer was “Well, we don’t see anything wrong with it.” After months of this, I decided t make the move to A Small Orange instead and host my sites there. The initial move was slightly traumatic as I had a few mishaps and issues, but overall it wasn’t that bad. I closed down two hosting accounts with GoDaddy, and opened one with A Small Orange, setting up WordPress with a network option (the latest evolution of what used to be WordPress MU) and migrated my sites. In doing so, this has completely solved the issues I was previously having with the form mailer and GoDaddy’s hosting conflict. As you can see, the Kittyloaf site is underneath the main site that houses my blog. I could have done it the other way around but this seemed most likely as my blog really is the focus of my online persona. You can also see that in this rendition of the Kittyloaf site, I’ve gone with an extremely minimal approach to the look. I might change this later, but its not for sure. We’ll see how it grows on me or if it does at all. I believe I have all of the pages and information sorted out here, and everything is ship-shape again. Have a look around and contact me about any services you may be interested in. While I have been an avid blogger since 2003, I have never used a blog for business reasons. This will be a first for me. I know blogs can be an excellent way to get attention to your website, and can be instrumental in keeping people there. I won’t be complaining about clients or begging for more work here. Instead I’ll be talking about new projects and my business in general. While I have been working both as a freelancer, and for various companies, I have never really set out to get myself noticed. Most of my work has come in via word of mouth- a client telling a friend or co-worker about me and my services. That’s nice and all, but it only goes so far, especially when the world you are working in has a limited number of people in it and there are several others competing for their business. Recently, I finally settled on a logo design for Kittyloaf. I had tried several, but none of them were quite right. The one you see up above in the header image was the winner. It’s clean, smooth, colorful, fun, clear, and a little whimsical- pretty much everything I like to see in a logo. Once I drafted it, I set out to “draw” up a business card layout. Doing print work has always made me a little nervous. Once it goes to print, its permanent. Digital files can always be tweaked or adjusted. That done, I ordered the business cards. I’m also planning to take out an ad in our local newspaper once my finances are in better order. I am hoping between the business cards and the ad, I will get noticed and be able to draw in some regular work. I’ll keep you posted. |
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