Red Monkey: Sketches Archives

August 31, 2006

Tonight

Photoshop fun. Enjoy!

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August 24, 2006

Preview

I've been hard at work on re-thinking and re-designing my larger website. A great number of the pages haven't been re-designed since 2000 or so and since I have so many sections to the site, it's hard to pull all those diverse sections into a main page. But ... here's a sneak peek of the mockup:

Click through for a look at the mockup for the whole page. I'm a bit torn as to how exactly I want to code the page. I'm so incredibly used to design using HTML tables, but CSS is just sooooo much better. I've been beginning to code it in my head in CSS, and I think I'll start it that way. If I run into any nasty glitches (like I have with IE and this template), then I may go back to the table.

Enjoy!

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July 31, 2006

Ch .. ch .. ch .. changes

I'm slowly re-working the template to fix a few things that have been bugging me for ages ... like that hideous redline background which is now defunct. The current background will be tweaked again, but this is closer to what I wanted. I'm moving to a three column format - the graphical design has always had the space ... now I need to work out the CSS a wee bit better. If you're a curious kind of person, you can view the test template here.

Meanwhile, buy the Red Monkey from NOT CafePress, but GoodStorm.

Also coming soon ... ads in which I recommend books and/or products. Not a lot, mind you and not gratuitous. Instead, hand-picked products ... the first things up will most likely be some books by Melissa Scott since I recently talked about her. But I've got to dig into the code of my template and see where all of this will best fit.

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June 10, 2006

Odd Week

It's been an odd kind of week for me. I had a great idea for a post to use on Thursday, but by the time I had some time to sit down and write it, I'd completely forgotten what it was. I mean completely. No clue even the topic, much less the specifics. Knew I should have jotted down a note or two while I was thinking about it. I thought that on Friday, I would write about being interviewed by the local paper, but after the two hour interview was over with Thursday night (nothing so interesting as blogging, of course), I really didn't want to write anything about it until after the article itself comes out ... and that may be weeks, of course.

Instead, I give you another bit of vector drawings from The Incredibles. This comes from the credit roll at the end of the movie ... to the left of the Incredicar, you'll see iconic line drawings of the family ... this is from the same clip during the credits of the movie. And, apparently Brad Bird also had those icons made into a shirt, as he's wearing a black T with those icons in white during one of the interviews on the DVD.

Anyhow, here's the link ... enjoy!

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June 7, 2006

Xander

We've been Buffy-festing for the past few days. Just chilling out, ignoring broadcast TV and watching DVDs of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In some episode of Season Two, one of the characters made reference to a dark teddy bear, probably Willow talking about the ever-broody Angel.

An idea was born. Hope you enjoy ... the Vampire Bear.

I call him Xander.

(Cuz Angel annoys me, too.)

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May 21, 2006

Vectors

I got this poster quite a while back. I think it was in an Incredibles action figure package. I love the style of the art, but the creases in the poster always irritated me a bit.