Hey all-

This has been the weirdest summer so far. I’ve been wearing ratty sweatshirts and jeans and wishing for sunny weather. I haven’t once cursed the summer gods for the scorching heat; I think they’re all on vacation. Ugh. If I wanted London weather I would move there.

The [only] good side to cold, moist and otherwise unpleasant weather is all the time you aren’t wasting doing frivolous things like being outside and having fun. I’ve been working coming up with a few potential designs for our website; you can get an idea of them once our new placeholder webpage is up.

I’ve been attempting learn/relearn is HTML/CSS/etc. I’ll be upfront: I haven’t really touched anything like this since I tricked out my geocities site in middleschool. HTML has actually changed a bit since then.

I was talking about this with Barry, and he and I noticed a curious phenomenon; web design, in general, has improved in the past decade or so, despite the increased accessibility of HTML et al. He thinks this can be attributed to the deaths of sites like AOL Hometown [dead], Yahoo Geocities [gone in October] and the like. I think you can thank the rise of web design as a legitimate occupation, even industry. I mean come on… it’s one thing to put the same blinking GIF at the bottom of your screen five times; it’s another thing to have to articulate to your designer “Now I want three sparkly hearts with glitter animation and then below that a row of winking teddy bears– what? OF COURSE I WANT THEM ALL EXACTLY THE SAME! WHAT KIND OF DESIGN SCHOOL DID YOU GO TO?”

Anyways, enjoy the summer day…