I've been dying to do a pink layout and here it is. I started playing with it on Saturday, hammered out this layout last night, and got it up today (yay me!). The album layout hasn't been updated yet, but I am glad to be rid of that drab grey at least here for now.

I'm starting to get excited about development again. Ed was telling me about the Google Web Toolkit last night and I was genuinely interested in it. Not only interested, but had an intense desire to go find out more about it and to play with it.

At work, I've got an interesting new project to start on, and I didn't think I'd be excited at work again, but I am. I'm looking forward to sitting down and designing a new app and writing some code.

That said, I have to admit how stupid I am with CSS. I know I'm not supposed to use tables anymore, but I've used them for so long I can't live without them. Setting up CSS to use two or three columns? Forget it. All that relative and absolute positioning fucks me up. Nothing ever ends up quite where I want it. I'm a sucky designer, too. I have to look at about 50 sites to gather enough ideas and tidbits in my head to try to make my own thing. And when I do, I'm not sure if it's actually well designed -- I just like the way it looks or the colors I've picked. For example, I know my new header is rather large and for no good reason other than I originally wanted to put three photographs at the top. But you can only make photographs so tiny. I put that other stuff in there just because it fit -- not because it made especial sense to put it there. At least big headers seem to be all the rage now so I'm not too ashamed of it.

I swear I'm much better at coding than I am at CSS. Really.