I just wanted to show off my latest job, a site that sells medical scrubs. Let me know how I did! (prices aren’t up yet)

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Someone mentioned to me in email yesterday that he would love to do web design for a living if he could figure out where to get the clients. I thought I would tell how I get them.

It started about 4 years ago, I put an ad in the paper for a month. I paid $158 for the ad, which simply said “Web Design. 501-568-XXXX.” I got a few calls and one client out of the deal. That client has since referred me to countless people. I haven’t placed another ad since, and I’ve stayed busy enough, considering I don’t really want to work at all, lol. Every web design job I’ve gotten since then has been through word of mouth. The $158 has paid off! You can see a few of the sites I’ve been paid for (and some of Diane’s too) at my portfolio page.

Another tip: You don’t have to know everything if you have friends who do! hehe.

Introducing….

The Pixel Factory, my blog where I’ll be adding small web graphics that I make such as background tiles, divider bars, tiny balls (hehe), and other stuff.

Ta Daaaa!

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Yep, I’ve changed this blog theme and name plenty of times, and while I may still change the theme again, I’m keeping the name. In an email from Boris this morning, he said he was surprised to visit my blog again to see that I had changed the name of the blog to Just a Girl, because he never knew I was a girl. He isn’t the only one. I’ve often gotten comments to my posts that started with something like “Hey man” or “Yeah dude.”
That goes hand in hand with having the word “webmaster” in the title… it’s a stereotype.

If you’re a webmaster, you must be a man. If you’re a master at all then of course you’re a man! I’ve noticed that some silly girl web designers call themselves “webmistress,” but that’s just retarded, and it’s usually amateurs that do this. Webmaster is a job title, just like Nurse, Mechanic, or Electrician. You wouldn’t change the word NURSE if you were a male nurse, or the word MECHANIC if you were a female mechanic, so why change Webmaster to Webmistress? I’m not anybody’s mistress. I build websites for money, I’m a webmaster. And I’m just a girl. porn bikkinebill clinton porn comicpic porn piper billieporn bimbobinkins pornstars of porn biographybiracial porn girlpornnewshunter com girls birthday Mapamateur porn oralpickup porn amateur4 free porn amateurporn and amateur menstruationporn amateur australianblog porn amateur searchporn blowjobs amateurporn chubby amateur Map

I’m writing this post because when Rich wakes up this morning (its 1:31 a.m. Saturday morning right now), and he starts kicking himself for ever agreeing to help me figure out one lil thing on the shopping cart of the site I’m working on, and then spending several hours on it yesterday until he finally gave up and said he was frazzled and would try again today (believe me, if rich had trouble with it, I would never figure it out myself) …. maybe he’ll come to my blog after he wakes up saying “damn mel, damn her all to hell, damn her and the horse she rode in on” and he’ll read this:

Rich. What can I say about Rich? Rich is a genius. He’s very intelligent and funny. I’ve only seen one tiny tiny picture of Rich, but judging by that I’d say yeah, he’s probably even good looking. Rich is nice. Rich is so busy sometimes because he’s a wise man to always be working and keeping his hands busy instead of idle. Rich Rich Rich. Richy Rich. The Richmeister. Richaroniiiiiiiiiii… the RICHmannnnn. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiich.

And maybe after reading that he’ll say “Well mel’s not so bad I guess. Bless her heart she’ll never figure that crap out, I think I’ll go now and look at it with a fresh rested mind and I’m sure I’ll get it going. Yeah, that Mel, she’s not so bad.”

I’ve changed my Coupon & Savings Site from a regular html site to a BLOGGGGGGGGGG! YES I’m addicted to blogs. And now my coupon site is SO MUCH EASIER to update and maintain. Check it out!

Here it is… the tattoo shop website discussed earlier in this blog, the one I almost made with tables and went to hell for! lol. The PsychoDelic Butterflyfree movies bear gayfree stripping moviesuncensored movies japanesegalleries mature moviemovie vice miamiauditions in movie hollywoodmovie content ratingsmovie rating explanationmovie girls sapphiremovie xxx24 att ringtone50 ringtone cent nextelfree 6680 nokia ringtonealabama ringtonedownloads ringtone alcatelpercent free ringtone 100ringtone 1600 nokia downloadringtone 3315 free download Map

and tossed and turned and… flipped and flopped… all night long. I slept for about two hours when I was awakened by a horrible nightmare! I dreamt I was burning in a lake of fire, burning and burning endlessly and for all eternity, except it wasn’t a lake. It was actually a table. It wasn’t a kitchen table, it was an HTML table. It looked something like this:

Now why would I dream something so crazy? Maybe it’s because Rich made a comment in the post below this one about me going to hell where I belong… for using tables in the tattoo shop website I’m doing.

But! Why could I not just laugh after I woke up and go back to sleep? Maybe it’s because of the guilt! Guilt because Rich spent so much time teaching me about CSS so that I would quit using the dreaded tables, trying to save me so much time in the long run, and I started to revert to my old evil ways and use them anyway!

SO… I finally decided it was useless trying to sleep, and I got my lazy butt out of bed at 4 a.m. and started changing the first page of what I had done so far from tables to CSS. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to figure out how to get the flash menu to work, but I figured it out. I was worried that it would take me forever to get the basics going, and it did (well, 2 1/2 hours), but its done and from here on out it will be a piece of cake.

Are you happy now Rich? Me too, I suppose. Back to bed now!

Yeah I have a couple, but that’s not what this is about. I’m starting a site for a Tattoo Shop (the one my daughter Julie works at). This is another makeover job. Rich won’t be pleased to learn that I’m using tables this time around (again) instead of CSS, but there are a few things I want to do with this site that I don’t know how to do in CSS and I’m in a bit of a hurry and not in the mood right now to figure it out. I’m going to be making a flash menu, and I never could get flash to work with CSS in Netscape, even when Rich told me how. I’m also breaking one of my rules, and using and all-black background. I know I know, I just posted earlier how much I hate that, but I tried many colors and black was the only one that looked RIGHT, so I guess there are some exceptions. Anyway, this is going to be a fun one to do, can’t wait to show everyone.

…Things I Hate to See in Web Design

(Examples Included)

10. All Black Background
To me this just screams TEENAGER. Black is fine if you break it up with another color. But an all black background with mostly just text I don’t like.

9. Background Music
For the most part I don’t like to go to a site and have music forced on me. I especially despise background music in the form of a MIDI. If you’re going to force your taste of music on me then at the very least learn how to turn an mp3 into a wav and how to reduce the file size of the wav so I can hear REAL music… on second thought, just leave the music out. Just because you might like rap or KORN or twangy country music doesn’t mean your visitors will, and who are you trying to please? This particular site also falls into the black background category above.

8. Frames
I hate frames. To tell you everything I hate about frames it would need it’s own top 10 list. You can get the same layout using tables, which would be in Rich’s top ten list. Ok, you can get any layout you want using xhtml and css. Stop with the frames, people, and welcome to the 21st century.

7. Dead Links
Web Designers, please keep an eye on your links and make sure they don’t lead to neverland! Just check them once a month, even. If the site you’re linking to leads to a dead site please remove it!

6. Click Here to Enter Site
Starting pages that simply say the above. Why add an extra page? Why not just let the starting page be the actual first page? Why do I have to click anywhere to “enter site?” Please don’t misunderstand me, I’m not referring to flash sites that have a starting page that allows the flash content to load before entering. That’s next.

5. Please Wait while Page Loads…
and loads, and loads and loads. I didn’t include an example because you know exactly what I mean. If you’re going to use flash, which I love usually, please don’t let it be flash that takes forever to load. I don’t mind waiting 20 seconds or so, but please, not a minute or two. I’m very impatient.

4. Slow Loading Images
It’s very easy to reduce a file size using either Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro or a multitude of other image editing programs. Please use something!

3. Huge Text
I’m not blind! How about a nice 14 or 12 point instead? That’s plenty big enough! The site I’ve used for this example also falls into the FRAMES category, so you’ll have to click on “SERVICES” to see what I mean.

2. Pop Ups (No Example, don’t want to force that on ya)
Enough with the pop-ups already. Designers, do you really make money from affiliate pop-ups or does everyone (like me) despise them and instantly exit them before they can even see what they are? Stop already!

1. Buttonized Images
Images that aren’t really buttons, because they don’t lead to anywhere else… just a buttonized effect placed on a general image. Leave the buttonizing for buttons. Buttons are clickable and lead you somewhere else. I also don’t like HUGE buttons. The example page for this one has both huge actual buttons and buttonized images just for the hell of it.