Tuesday!

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catchy title huh?

so, today all I have done with my free time for about a week now is mess with the website. I spent forever working up the new header graphic, and still want to come up with a cooler name, but this works for now. On the main site, the bridesmaids, and groomsmen pages are complete.. or mostly, I will be putting up new pictures for the guys as soon as I have them.

Heather is at Husker Harvest Days… I see a lot of humor in the fact that I have never been to that mythical event, and now she was forced to go by her job. Hopefully she isn’t too traumatized by the experience 🙂

only 2 days until the Moab trip, and another chance to tramatize Heather, but I think camping will be a blast!

-Jordan

The website is… progressing

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Things are moving along with the website! After almost all day Saturday, half of Sunday, and an hour before work today, I can almost call the front page, and the bridesmaids pages done. Once the last few formatting issues on the bridesmaids page get sorted out I can have the groomsmen page done in minutes, excluding my lack of good pictures for the guys. Heather had lots of good pictures of her girls, nether I nor facebook really has good imagery for the guys… hopefully I can track something down soon.

then I just have to figure out how the whole registration thing will work, beat the google maps API into my CSS format, and… yeah that should about do it for the website! 🙂

-Jordan

RIP WoW

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Its kind of a strange day, I canceled my World of Warcraft subscription. I have been playing for over 2 years now I think… I cant honestly remember when I started.

this is going to be scarry, but I am going to check playtime on my characters… oh wait… my subscription ended today! I guess I dodged a bullet there 🙂 Honestly thought it was going to be like over a month of solid play time easy 😦

I still have 14 game icons on my desktop though, so its not like I have completely abandon gaming… I just cant do the time-sink that is wow.

-Jordan

My next cell phone?

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not that I really mind my current phone, but its been dropped about twice and now the battery case wont stay on half the time. Also its the 2nd Razor I have owned as the 1st one just decided that displaying things on the screen wasn’t a requirement. Lucky I had memorized how to look up Heather in the address book so I could still call her blind 🙂

anyway, I am facinated by this phone: Samsung SGH-a83 I just have to figure out 1. when it comes out, and 2. If there is anyway I can use it and stay with Verizon.

(half the reason this gets a blog post is so I can remember what its called a week from now 🙂 )

-Jordan

Gallery, Verbage, Colors etc

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I have managed to pull Heather into the design process for the main website (woot), and now have some actually challenges instead of just saying “meh, looks good enough.” Its a good thing, and I think the website is going to look awesome if I can implement everything we talked about.

First off I wont have to try and come up with text for the front page that doesn’t sound dumb, Heather can do that! 🙂

Second off, once we pick colors, pictures and whatnot, I will have to figure out CSS wrangling to get things to be the right colors, and formatted around pictures. I don’t expect that to be so hard, but who knows.

lastly, trying to get Gallery to pretend to be a cohesive part of the website is kinda a pain, using the proper theme, it at least presents the pictures in a non-painful way. Heather asked that the background be black, and low and behold, the “slider” theme has an option for a “black” color scheme… only its not black. Should be easy enough to fix, I just need time to dig around in the color settings. Then I run into the fact that “slider” doesn’t leave me an easy place to inject a link back to “home”, nor dose it seem to care that I don’t want the picture file names displayed.

I am looking forward to Saturday though, I should have some time to beat on the website

-Jordan

September

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A few days into Sep and we have skipped our morning workout two of two opportunities to try and get a little more sleep 🙂 I can’t believe how hard it’s been to catch back up these days. 

Also, today was the first day I walked outside in the morning and thought “WOW it feels like fall!”  I know it’s a little dumb to be making a post about the weather, but it seemed like an event worth remembering what day it was this year

-Jordan

Website

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CSS templates are amazing fyi! The front page looks halfway professional, and it’s not because I know what I am doing when it comes to web design.

It may change a lot, but I am rather encouraged by the progress I made in the last 12 hours or so… I think the wedding site may actually come off pretty well!

-Jordan

The Fair!

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Heather and I went to the State Fair last night, the plan was to meet a handful of friends there and go to the Third Day concert. Everyone that was going to come ended up with other things going on, so it became a date of sorts.

We got to ride the Farris Wheel together, seemed like a good Fair thing to do. For whatever reason we picked the double wheel one, that turned out to be rather intense for people who aren’t all that comfortable with heights ( H&J ) so there wasn’t much romantic staring into each others eyes… but the shared rush was fun.

After the Farris Wheel, we headed over to the area the concert was in, just in time to catch Third Day coming on, but not in time to get a place to sit, or even see the band. It was still an amazing time: great music, perfect weather, and standing with a really beautiful girl. Probably my favorite concert ever!

-Jordan