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June
5, 1999
The original idea behind
this place was to help you find sites with quality artwork and good page
design - ones that didn't rely heavily on advertising and sites that were
easy to navigate. Nothing is more irritating that trying to find
something on a site and having to wade through difficult menus to locate
what you're searching for. And now I seem to find myself in that
position with this place. With the addition of my own works, updates
are at irregular intervals and it has been necessary for you to go through
pages you've already viewed to get to the new pieces. As areas are
updated, I will create the link to the new selection here so that you don't
have to go through pages you've already visited. There are two main sections
- Featured Sites and Originals, with the Originals branching off to Tube
Paintings, Button Sets, and miscellaneous graphics that I'm experimenting
with.
With that done and out of
the way, I finally have a new site for you to visit - GUDRUN
WEERASINGHE'S GALLERY.
A new tube painting - THE
LIGHTHOUSE |
June
16, 1999
I was accepted into
The Phenomenal Women of the Web, an amazing organization. (You'll
see the seal on pages throughout this site.) Founded by Nancy Imelda
Schafer (also known as Spyder) PWOTW is a division of the personal side
of Spyder's Empire. There is so much to see and absorb on her site that
I won't waste your time here trying to describe it. Just go, explore,
and use your bookmarks or favorites feature because this is not a place
to visit just once. (But don't forget to come back when you're finished!)
One of the benefits of belonging
to PWOTW is a beautiful guest book created by Nancy. It went on-line
Thursday, June 16 and I would love to hear from you. Please take
the time to sign.
I received three awards and
would like to thank the ladies who took the time to wander through my pages.
The site owners all have different themes - Ellen Stafford's is a very
personal site while Melanie Ducote's provides graphics, Beanie Babies,
games, trivia contests, and an amazing number of links. Ellie's site,
CATS
AND PINK CADILLACS, is dedicated to her 'kids'
- Littlefoot, KeeKee, and Bambi - and her classic Cadillac. You absolutely
have to read their stories - they're told from the cats' perspectives.
But more importantly, this lady's message is about the prevention of animal
abuse. And Ellie built her whole site without a computer. She uses
WebTV. ( I've got to learn more about that ) You can reach all three
sites from my Awards Page by clicking on the individual awards. Maybe
one day, I'll be knowledgeable enough in this medium to start an award
of my own. I can only hope ... |
June
19, 1999
Button set - ELLIE'S
LITTLEFOOT. Inspired by a furry little
pet I 'met' last weekend at Cats and Pink Cadillacs. How can you
not fall in love with this adorable little face? Photo used with
permission. |
June
26, 1999
I received a new award
- from LOADSTAR'S
LAIR. Her site is exquisite with beautiful
photographs and paintings of tigers, and a vast amount of information on
these animals. Loadstar's award is very difficult to obtain and I
am thrilled that, so early in my page building days, she has seen fit to
bestow upon me the MERIT
AWARD, along with an invitation to apply for
the Gold Award as I gain more experience.
I'm presently working on
the re-design of a business site here in Winnipeg and required assistance
working with Real Audio files. I turned to Darryl Kerney, a sound
technician, who's extremely knowledgeable regarding audio programs, but
has no experience with building web pages. Undaunted by the prospect,
he spent the better part of last week searching for information to assist
me. The biggest challenge with re-designing someone else's site appears
to be having to cope with their often unwieldy corporate images.
But back to Darryl - I gave him the basic code for embedding music
onto a page so that he would have something to work with while testing
the Real Audio files. Seems he's now gotten the 'web site' bug too,
and has managed to get his own site started. I think this would be
an ideal place to visit, for all of you who think it would just be too
difficult to create your own pages. You can see the process right
from the very beginning and realize that it's not as intimidating as you
might imagine. Bear in mind, this is his first page, and he's put
it together while working a full-time job AND looking for information for
me. Darryl's Home Page (And those midi, wav and real audio files
were created by him, not borrowed from somewhere.)
Created some banners for
you to use if you need to link to this site - MDD Banners |
June
29, 1999
Have just learned about
JavaScript - think it's hard? Not on your life! Remember -
I've only been at this for a couple of months now. Here's the code
and an example of how to do those 'mouse over' things. That's when
you move your mouse over an image or text and it changes. Now where
am I going to put all of those? Start a JavaScript section? |
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