Lisa Goodlin Design

Should I separate this site into two? A web design business site and a blog? I modeled this site after the those of designers I admire, like Elliot Jay Stocks and Veerle Pieters. But they’re big name, successful designers, not unknowns like me. Would it be better if my business site were more professional looking, without all the bells and whistles that I really enjoy such as the flickr and twitter badges? Does it turn off potential clients to see my inane twitter posts? Or my goofy photos?

I could do something like what Jen has done over at Pop Stalin. Although I like the blog design with its vector-licious birdies better than the business site, the business site carries the warm, casual tone of the blog, and is professional and friendly at the same time while clearly separating business from the personal.

I’ll give it some time and see how business goes. So far, all my leads are coming from referrals and not from my site, so now is probably not the time to worry.

At last I found a fix for some oddities in font size. It still makes no sense to me, however. Why do I have to set the postmetadata links one em bigger than the postmetadata non-link text? It’s a mystery I am sworn to solve. But if anyone reading this can clue me in, I’d be every so grateful.

Today it took me twenty minutes to do a job I thought it would take two hours at least to do. The MIMMT site was displaying in all its IE Quirks Mode Glory, and I had to do something about it. What I decided to do was create a separate IE style sheet and call it with a conditional. At first it wouldn’t work. I used “at import”, and it just wouldn’t import. Then I found an article on conditionals at Elated that worked perfectly in getting “less than IE 7″ to call the CSS.

Very quickly I was able to modify the style sheet to satisfy quirky IE and was done in twenty. Glorying in my victory, I hooted and shook my fist in the air like some doofus major league sports star.

Lack of sleep is starting to affect my productivity. I’m glad it’s the weekend, because I can slack a bit without feeling too guilty.

I just finished styling some of the center sidebar elements, and it’s looking better. I still have more sites to add to the lists, but I’m happy with how it’s coming. I do worry that my CSS is bigger than necessary and could be better streamlined.

I figured out a partial fix, and it made me unreasonably happy.

This is just ridiculous. I created these way cool images for titles for my flickr badge and twitter feed, and No Matter What I Do they won’t appear. I’ve tried relative paths, absolute paths, and image replacement. When I did the image replacement for the flickr title, it appeared. Until I refreshed. What the heck is going on?