August 2007

on the second entry of August 30, 2007

       I just decided that Lace is more of a project, a study, than an actual website. The reason for this decision is that I want a domain, but I feel that I just don't know enough. I know (x)html, and css, but I don't know php, or javascript. I'm obviously still not amazing at making layouts either... which is fine, because I want a simpler site anyway. Speaking of layouts, although this layout would be very dull without that large 'Lauren' sign, it also bothers me. Any thoughts on this?

       So, yeah, I'm really excited, because today I looked up information on purchasing domains. I already have a few name ideas, although I wonder if I'll like the one I end up choosing for more than a couple months. As for content, I know just what I want to display, my poetry, short stories, random writings, pencil drawings, and maybe more, I dunno. Also, perhaps I want a site based on a made-up character, or a section of the site, and I might just wanna go ahead and make that helpful site I talked about forever ago, and have it be part of my domain. *Sigh*, so many wonderful possibilities await... which I'd be way happier about if I hadn't been burdened by this inexplicable heavy feeling, and if my boyfriend hadn't just gotten kicked out. What else is new?

on the entry of August 30, 2007

       Yup, today was the first day of school, and... I really don't want to talk about it. It was uneventful, and the same as ever....

       Although, I did learn something interesting today. The whole Rosa Parks story about how she wouldn't move for a white person, and that's why she got arrested, isn't the full story at all. I'll go over it briefly, pretty much: When african americans went on the public buses they had to go in through the front door, throw their change in the... thing, and get out and walk in through the back door. It was raining the day Rosa Parks took the bus, so she refused to walk back outside again. It wasn't a problem until a white man came on the bus. The area for white people had to be extended further into the back, which would have been fine, but the bus driver said, (paraphrasing, lol) "Ya know, there'll probably be more white people at the other stops, so we might aswell make room now... get out Rosa". She argued that there were plenty of empty seats that no one was occupying, and the bus driver retaliated with "If you have a problem with it, I'll just have you arrested". She didn't budge... And that's what happened.

       When I got home, I saw on the news this upside down house, I don't know where. It's upside down from the outside, and when you walk in you're actually on the "ceiling, which is really the floor, but seems to be the ceiling. I guess most people get sick, or dizzy. I, for one, have wanted to walk on my ceiling---and now I can, kinda.

       The site's been getting some traffic, but obviously there is no significant amount of commenting going on, lol, so I have a feeling that people just come here, then leave. I put counters on all the pages to see what's going on.

on the entry of August 29, 2007

       Yesterday I changed my little arrow bullets to bullet bullets. Lol. I thought it be cool, and the arrows were not working for me. It sucks though cause instead of looking like bad ass bullets, they looks like little fish... haha. It is funny but now I have to do something about it.. which I don't wanna do. Working on my layout was fun, but I don't like making buttons, and bullets, and little extra pictures. It sucks, because to me they add a little extra to websites, but I'm too lazy.. and I don't like adopting things from people's sites... I dunno though, I just might. Hmmm....

       Tomorrow is the first day of my junior year. I'm excited, and nervous for the upsetting moments that I just know are gonna happen. On a positive note, maybe I'll make some new friends... and uh... I dunno. That's it. ... and enrich my mind! woot! Lol. As much as I actually do like enriching my mind... school?! Eh. I remember I used to get really excited every year for the first day of school, but then it dawned on me that it's just gonna be another year of...school. Done rambling. We'll see what happens.

on the entry of August 28, 2007

       I just realized how unappealing it is to be on freewebs. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great service, with almost no glitches, but like, would I even click on a button that is linked to a freewebs site?....Yeah, actually; Angelfire, however, no. I never do.

on the entry of August 27, 2007

       Today I finished adding all the poems I wanted to the site. I really don't know where I should go from here. I can keep tweaking the site, and adding random things.... or I can start adding it to directories and such, so that someone other than my boyfriend (and me) gets to see it... Hmm.

       Oh yeah, and I'm not going to make this site available in English and Spanish anymore. Translating my poems would completely change their flow and meaning. That's really dissapointing though, because I thought that'd make my site a lil' special... It's okay though, I got another inspiration: sometime in the future I'm gonna add my drawings to Lace. Yep, I'm an artist too, lol.

on the entry of August 26, 2007

       Today I added bullets, a signature for my blogs, and am in the process of installing haloscan. Haloscan, by the way, is really hard for me to style. I mean, I didn't try extremely hard, but still. Atleast it looks descent. *shrug*

on the entry of August 23, 2007

       I'm really excited. Last night I got a random inspiration, and a couple of minutes ago, I got a second one. First inspiration: I'm going to make a website offering buttons about all sorts of different causes. Web masters/mistresses can add them to their sites, and then people who go there and click on one of the buttons will be brought to my 'helpful site' which will offer info on that cause. SWEET. I bet this idea already exists, but it's a helpful thing so another site like that will only help. Second inspiration: I'm going to have lace available in both English and Spanish. Eeee! It'll be a lot of hard and annoying work, but it will enlarge my audience potential. SWEET AGAIN.

on the entry of August 21, 2007

       Hello, the site is still not complete, but I wanted to start the blog portion of it anyway. I'm actually making way more progress than I expected... I missed webdesigning so much! Honestly, in my eyes my site is mediocre right now, but I definitely see its potential to become really good, if not great.

       This morning I was picking out poems to show in the "Writing" section. They're not epic poems or anything, but they will make you think. Time to get back to work.