I kind of liked the way Andrew Krespanis’s blog was shown at the DotFive website, tucked into the last paragraph of his employee description…lol. The only problem is I’m planning to use this domain for my new site and bump my blog to blog.jalenack.com … so it might cause some confusion for my viewers. Ah well. Tell me what you think of the latest stuff guys!

Anyhow, congrats on the payment, Andrew. Follow through with the internship idea if that interests you.

Your ideas for your new site look fine, but several of the techniques are cliche, a bit. The pixelated site title is something I’ve seen work on a few sites, but it’s mostly just overused. I’m getting tired of the dropshadow, as you may already know from the forums. Still, at least you’ve applied it horizontally, so there’s a different take on it. But the drop shadow on the blog notification part of the image looks odd since there’s no drop shadow on the horizontal line above it. It’s like that part is hovering, but the piece above it that it’s fixed to isn’t. It doesn’t look right. And those tabs for site navigation are getting old, too. Is that the metal background that was used on the Sutherland Bike Web site I see?

Do you want prospective clients to see this blog? I don’t want mine to see it, so I don’t link to mine from my home page (actually, I don’t write in mine yet, but the initial attempts aren’t even linked).

I love orange, but that shade of orange is a bit…well…vomitous is all I can think of. Of course, my cat did just puke and it had a similar tint. But I’m not a fan of that shade, despite my earlier experience with the color.

And I liked looking at the code for the job you were paid for. I remember when I did a design similar to that a few years ago and the code was a complete mess of tables and javascript. And now, it’s all possible with slim, trim, decypherable code. Well done. I’m glad the client liked it and that it may turn into something more advantageous. Keep it up.

Oh! And the travelling missionaries? Slam the door. They can’t afford your $6.66 per hour, though I’m sure they would have run in fright if you’d told them that’s what you charge. Then you could have held up the devil-horn hand signal and said “Hail Satan” as they screamed down the street. That would have been worth your time and made for a pleasurable evening.