Long Overdue

Submitted by Melissa Thornton
on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 11:21

Heading in to the doctor today for the first time in several years. I know that's a bad thing considering my age and whatnot, but the fact that we currently don't have insurance has been keeping me from going in as well. I'm looking at 152.00 to walk through the door, and I'm most likely looking at some blood work on top of that. Combined with the recent vet bills for the diabetic pup that went missing for two weeks, we're going to be living pretty thin over the next few weeks.

Blogging Interrupted

Submitted by Melissa Thornton
on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 18:06

There was a time, about five years ago, where I would spend hours every night writing with a friend. We had been a part of a creative writing site, and we decided to take some of our characters and write a combined story. I have all of the sessions we did and I look back on them and wonder where my creative brain went. We never finished the story, and we had some issues because we never really had a beginning either. There were a whole bunch of individual scenes, but the connective glue wasn't there. We both got frustrated with what we couldn't get done and agreed to let it go.

A lot in the plan for this year

Submitted by Melissa Thornton
on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 18:43

I thought it was time for a fresh start with fresh content. While I have quite a few posts over at the old site, there were only a few posts that I thought were worthy of saving. I'm looking at the new year as a time to rethink things both online and off. Creating a more focused website was a big part of the plan. While personal blogging has always been something I enjoyed, it seems to me that it was time to step out from behind the "persona" because I want my content to be connected to me.

Finding a Palate

Submitted by Melissa Thornton
on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 09:00

I have several books of color palates lying around, and occasionally I'll flip through them for inspiration. Color sets a tone as much as layout and images that are used in a design, and this is one of the things that always takes the most time for me in building a layout. There are a couple ways I get started, one is to pick a single color as a base that I love, and build a monochrome scheme by changing the opacity on the color. usually dropping it in 25% increments and adding an additional one at about 10% to use as a fill for borders on images and such.

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Building a site with Drupal 7

Submitted by Melissa Thornton
on Sat, 11/27/2010 - 11:12

There are a lot of people that have written articles on setting up various blogging or content management packages on the web, one of the problems I’ve faced in the past is that a lot of these assume that the reader has some experience either in coding or in development. My plan is to break it down into manageable chunks that will help people with no previous experience get their site up and running as painlessly as possible. There are quite a few established packages out there, and I’ve used several over the 10 years that I’ve been building personal sites.

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