New Header Design

I'm My Own Worst Critic.

Well, finished my text on my header. Right now, I'm not too sure if I'm completely satisfied with it, but I think that I'm just going to keep going and add the background design in. (Hoping that it will juice it up a little)

I feel it's a little to bubbly for my tastes... My aim is for a stylized, friendly, but professional look. When it comes to criticism of my work, I may just by my own worst enemy. I love art, but god let me butcher the perfectionist in me! One day I'll kick it all aside and drop it like the bad habit it is. That's a promise.

I'm going to try out some background designs and see how I feel about it after. Otherwise, there's a font that I found online that I like. I could easily make a nice background to flow with that font. It's simple and elegant. (You know, I have a sneaking suspicion that I was never intended to have a future as a font designer, anyways). That task was my key clue. Now I absolutely know for sure--- no font deisgn career for me!

Anyway, here's a glimpse of my fonting expertise:
(Now don't be too critical)
(Still a heavy work in progress)

Fonts.

Wow. It's a big world, the world of fonts.

So, now the background image is complete, and I'm currently in progress of figuring out a the text treatment and design for my masthead, now.

I came across a great website, if there are any font junkies out there. There's a slew of unique fonts in this site, from a-z, for both PC and Mac, and they are all free. If interested...

http://www.sketchpad.net/freefonts.htm
(Courtesy of Mike Doughty)

Alright, with this short post, I'm back to work.

Here's the finalized background. I decided that the top decal was overbearing to the image, and added the bottom decal and half-opacity to soften things up.

Dedication and Inspiration

So, this halloween weekend has been a little crazy, but I still found time to work on my website. It was a great weekend, and nicely enough I think I might be all partied out.

Now, with a full week off of work, dedication is key. I have a goal to get this site up before the end of November. One month more of decoding websites, buying CSS style books, and teaching myself Dreamweaver.

After browsing through templates and inspiration from my friend, I'm tempted to add some flash in there to make it a little more dynamic. That might very easily tack on another month. I'm starting to think distraction comes more from being overly inquistive than from actual lack of focus. Hmm.

Well, here is the background design, near completion and without its opacity. It's a combination of my own design with references from a hotel floor design that I saw while overseas. The color scheme is similar to that of my site.



I thank my friends that continue to inspire me. I'll get there hopefully. It just might take me some time...