Oh, the stories to tell about my new laptop …. *tangent*

I’m a big designer. Ella and I became friends designing online. Oh, I mean graphic/web designing, not L’s beloved fashion illustrating.

Anyway, I helped design this layout. I design various things online and Ella was stuck at how to create this vision. I loved that vision and realized it would actually be quite easy. (From that, she lured me into this blog, actually into being very, very excited about this blog.)

But I was stepping into something bigger than I realized. We use templates because of the blog being on a script with its own “classes.” Well, this causes problems when the designer doesn’t understand every nook inside the code. And I’m now here to help.

This brings me back to my laptop, which I wasn’t going to mention, even though I’ve been wanting to, until my big reveal with a big review (and apparently, we need to reapply to Dell (yeah, no Mac) affiliates (no monay, no link) …

I spent the last few days since receiving it setting up all my settings And I spent most of today [yesterday, now] setting up the wireless Internet (note that for later). Throughout the process of setting things up, I kept playing with resolutions, because it is a widescreen (benefits and downsides, but I’ll work it out so that it’s the best choice, trust me, I know) it’s different, and because it’s so tiny at 12″.

Once I got online this afternoon, I further played with the resolutions. Then I logged on to Lipped Media sites. And I noticed …

They do not work in 800 x 600 resolution. I know they were supposed to be optimized for it.

So Ella worked on it, got really stressed, hurt her eyes from switching back and forth and decided she needed help. Well, I’m here! (Darn it.)

And I jumped back and forth between two machines, ’cause I ain’t using 800 x 600 on a large monitor! (And I didn’t have enough design tools on the laptop, yet.)

So we pulled all-nighters. Now you see that most of the sites (I lost all energy with only Pet-Pet left. I’m so bad, they get few hits, I’ll “hit” ‘em, tomorrow) are working fine.

So, all afternoon it was annoying computer stuff, then all night it was frustrating CSS. What. a. day.

And that’s probably why I’m writing this rambley post. No good. Should I even publish it? I’ll ask Ella to work her editing skills on it. ;-D!

*Snooooozzzz*

[* Ella: Cute story---not sure what more to do with it. I'm afraid of cutting too much. I'm not sure how publishable it is, but I know we both worked so hard, we kind of want the story out! ]