The last few days I've gotten a wild hair up my......er......I've gotten the urge to re-hash a few things. If you are super observant (or a follower of my Twitter account) you'll already have seen the changes in the headers on the site. Not a lot of differences. The bar at the bottom has more depth to it, the font and floral swirls are now beveled, and the logo has been moved to a more prominant frontal location.
I've also remade my "Back to Top" buttons. They're now a completely original Anika creation; rather than simply being graphics I'm using from FlamingText.com.
Finally, I've redone my Twitter button a bit. I created the original art button about three months ago. I had always intended to pull it back up and clean it up a bit, but didn't get around to it until now. The original button was more of a sticker in appearance and the shading on my Twitter bird was somewhat rough. I've gone back in and smoothed out the shading and created a new background to the bird.
As you can see, the new background is an actual button...as in a pin-type button. Few reasons I decided on that. 1) I wanted to see if I could figure out how to make it, 2) I wanted the button more three-dimentional-ish, 3) I wanted the colors to match this site more, and 4) I collect button pins and just wanted include one somewhere.
Unfortunately, I've got nothing else at the moment. Trying to think of something special to get up for Halloween. Suggestions are always welcome on that front. Just click the pretty comment link below (right above the shiny new Back to Top button) and give me some ideas!
P.S. I'm not promising to actually DO any of these ideas....but if I really like them, then I just might. :Þ
P.P.S. If you look at my Back to Top button on any page in the site (outside of this blog) you'll see that I made it go pressy when you hover the mouse over it. Ooohh. Ahhh. ;-)
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Cute, cute, cute! That twitter bird is adorable. It reminds me of someone I know, but for the life of me I can't think who; and no, looking in the mirror won't give me the answer. I said, "cute".
I have an idea for halloween - how about doing a banner tutorial. I just had one done and love it. Use a similar background; I don't mind. I'll do a blog tomorrow so you can see what it looks like. ^.~ it's spooky. You're good at both...spooky and backgrounds.
I like your back to top buttons, too; actually, I like everything you do. I'm so jealous, I could... umm... need to think about that a little.
Good job - again
Reply to Marie:
Glad to hear you like the updated birdy. He's always fun to work on.
As for the banner, I probably won't be able to do a tutorial on that (conflicting issues with my work), but I do have a pretty tutorial for making a Halloween desktop wallpaper (note the pretty, Halloweeniness of the header). ^.^
The back to top buttons were fun to make. I don't make buttons very often (at least, not like this) and enjoyed playing with it. Sorry about making you jealous, but....well....I'm rather pleased with myself over it. ^.~
Buzz it!
