Weddings are in the air!
Several college friends have gotten engaged and/or married in the last few months. My little sister is also getting married.
One of my gifts to my sister was her wedding website. I created it using Drupal, so it has way more features than she really needs, but I'm used to working with it. I set up a RSVP area for people to respond to their invitations via the internet. It's a simple form, but hopefully she can use it to keep track of those people, get their emails if she has questions, and also update her RSVP numbers fast.
This week is a bit of a wedding week (again). The past weekend was spent doing invite stuff. I'm also in charge of finding SILVER RAG PAPER. I just googled that term and found a bunch of photo-centric sites. I don't think that is what he meant since the idea is to RIP STRIPS to wrap around the invites.
So I'm off to find a paper sourcing store some where around here.
As I think about it, I need about 50 or less sheets to get the strips. Probably less. if the strips are around 1.25 inches, that's about 6 strips that I can get from an 8.5x11 inch piece. so that's less than 46 sheets, adding extra strips just in case.
Once I find this paper, we will tear it artfully for the invites.
Truthfully, I'm not really good at arts and crafts. I like to focus my artistic skill into more edible creations. I'm also not very graceful, so I tend to mess things up. I better get extra sheets, huh? I might rip these things wrong. I hate to be the one to make the invites look off.
Hm, maybe they can put me in as the person stuffing the envelopes.
It's a new, new, new, new, new, new(?) web site again. Hanabatake.com has been updated. I've moved to a new CMS.
I've also relaunched JenSeki.com with Drupal.
It took me a while to figure it out, but I think I'm starting to understand what I need to do to get all of this up and running.
The links on most of my website are probably out of date. I mean, some of them are from over 10 years ago! So I'm starting fresh, so to speak.
I'll be slowly moving some of my old posts back starting with my research papers.
Well, this isn't really about accessories -- more like enhancements to the internet experience.
You can preview the newest incarnation of FireFox from GetFireFox.com. Firefox 3 has some great features including the AWESOME BAR. The address bar KNOWS where you want to go. It knows.....
I've also been working with other CMS, including Drupal. Personally, I think Joomla is easier to set up and much more intuitive than Drupal when it comes to getting started, but I can see why people like Drupal. Still, I'm really a Joomla girl at heart. It's like imprinted in my brain. I have to sign up for that mysql/PHP class but I shudder to think about the gas it will take to go to Riverside. Really, it isn't that far and it's only once a week, so I should totally go, but if gas hits $5, i want to weep.
I've a couple of projects to do for some of my friends. I was thinking that it might be better to hold off until I have some classes under my belt to really enhance their pages. I've gotten away with setting up sites without a lot of core knowledge other than my HTML skills and my ability to figure things out. And while it's done me plenty good, I'd like to be a little more solid in my background knowledge.
1. a new phone.
2. a camera.
3. a way to cyber-stalk my friends from everywhere.