It’s getting better..
So, I took advantage of the holiday break to work on my blog. I didn’t completely give up. I found some “blank” themes done by Will at Tomorrow’s Laundry, and have been plugging away at designing my look. As you can see, it is not there yet, but it is getting there.
I found the unicorn image in a journal a friend gave me ages ago. The sketch was done by Michael Green in The Unicorn Notebook. I scanned in the image, removed the part I didn’t need, and colored it in Photoshop. I created the background parchment and the text and put it all together for my header. Then I tiled the header background parchment through the entire page. Now I just need to finish styling the page and come up with a footer and I’m all set.
I may do away with the background parchment on the whole page. I have learned (never tried it before now) that I can not put a drop shadow on an image that will have transparency. It has to have the background color already added. Matching up tiles of parchment is impossible, so maybe I’ll go to a more neutral background to work with. We’ll see.
Next project… fixing up Ron’s site and blog, and redoing Claddagh Web Design with accompanying blog.
