Tien’s blog

I spent part of yesterday and today figuring out how to use the image gallery tool I just bought: SlideShowPro and SlideShowPro Director. It’s not 100% of everything I want, but it’s pretty good, and very configurable.  More to the point, it saves me from having to either relearn Flash/Actionscript or hire a Flash developer [...]

I now have my very first web page up and running!  So far it’s only the crafts subdirectory page, but it’s tremendously exciting to me - it’s a proof that the template I so carefully built works, and an opportunity to rewrite and reorganize the section, as I had intended (but never got to).  So [...]

Yesterday Mike and I went to a different farmer’s market than usual.  Normally we go to the Ferry Plaza farmer’s market, but this week we decided to change and go to the Alemany farmer’s market. And hey wow, there was a stand selling SOUR CHERRIES!  This is the first time I’ve ever seen fresh sour [...]

I have finished coding the redesigned homepage, and have successfully created another of my page templates (took much fiddling, but finally completed).  I still have some fine-tuning to do, and some links to add, but the layout is basically there.  And I have learned a lot about CSS in the process.
Now I have to redo [...]

I still need to correct one style issue (the washed-out photo of me appears above, not below, the text on the page), but here it is, so far (with filler text). There are no active links on the page, but the three photos to the left will be links to featured sections (textiles, travels, [...]