The hardest lesson of them all
I sometimes get carried away when I get on a roll with my designs, woke nice and early and kept going, didn’t even pause for coffee and breakfast, everything was going well and I had the new non flash header completed to the point I could start spitting out all the images for the randomizer script, then guess what happens? PC froze, (my own fault, I had tinkered some with the overclocking and it seems got a bit zealous) and since I got the habit of saving when I’m done and about to close photoshop, yes you guessed it, lost all of it, 2-3 hours of work gone. I went upstairs and ate breakfast and got some coffee (good for morale) went a lot faster the second time around, I remembered the gist of it, I can’t recall names nor phone numbers, but photoshop settings, layer effects etc all stay vivid in my mind months after doing the initial design.
As you can see above I’ve gotten to the same point I was then, this is the basic image without the backdrop photo, I’ll start making the 20~ individual images for the randomizer in a bit, the navigation will be much like the old style showing the active page, I really like flash but realized that a 500KB .swf isn’t an option on a site hosted on a DSL connection, thus the return to xhtml/css/png navigation.
The current header is just and image, it will of course have the same navigation as the flash had once completed.
Before I succumbed to the sweet embrace of sleep I finished the comments section and made quite a lot of progress on the sidebar.
