New site design: Cherry

I have been a busy little bee and managed to complete the new site design a bit earlier than expected. Here I present to you “Cherry”. Creative name, eh? This design is to celebrate the upcoming first birthday of Cherry Pip (October 17th). It is a dramatic change from the previous design. I always like to surprise people. This design took around 2 weeks to make. I did not use pink because it is Pink for October/Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I totally forgot about it. It’s just a coincidence.

I have made the following revisions regarding my coding:

• Converted padding and margins from pixels (px) to em
• Converted fonts from a mix of percentages and em to all percentages
• Used more CSS shorthand
• Included an extra stylesheet to fix minor Internet Explorer bugs

Some bugs I am working on getting fixed:

• Content margin issue in Internet Explorer 6 (surprise, surprise)
• Search box padding issue in Opera
• Transparent PNGs not transparent in Internet Explorer 6

I am very pleased with how this has turned out. It reminds me of some old layouts of mine but with reliable, cleaner coding and better images. Any feedback and bug reports are welcome. Let me know what you think.

Woo!

Well, I am no longer unemployed! Finally! I had a job interview this morning for a retail vacancy, I will be working at a gift store. The store is about to open, but I had the interview in a different store in a neighbouring town. I will be starting next week, I will be training in the store I was interviewed at for a couple of days, then I will be helping filling the upcoming store. The store should open by next Saturday. It may not be a web design job, but I am thrilled. I am so happy that I was offered the job on the spot. I must have impressed them.

It was nice to get away from my town for a change, Sean and I had a look in some shops and marveled at the lovely old buildings. I’m quite hyper right now, must be from getting the job and from eating junk food. I had McDonalds for breakfast before the interview, a Starbucks mocha frappuchino after the interview and a Subway sandwich for lunch. Got to love American franchise food. Mmm.

Yes, I am a happy bunny right now!