March, 2006

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  Standards in a Nutshell

• I’m a very visual person by nature and I find it relatively easy to picture what my site will look like as I’m coding my CSS. However, I realize that many of you are technical people and less visual. I’ve put together a fun little exercise that will hopefully help you to better visualize what [...]

  CSS Vision: Visualizing Your Code

• +The link for one of the stolen themes was wrong… here’s the “main site for the original theme](http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/archive/2006/03/06/lush_for_wordpress created for Typo. The previous link was for the person who ported it to wordpress, but at this time the site is not coming up as it was.+

  I was talking to a friend on the phone today [...]

  Had enough of plagiarism

• This is probably the most common and the toughest question I get. There’s no price set in stone when you’re dealing with custom design work. I can’t ring up a web page and a blog and give you an invoice for each product because with custom work, it’s just that – custom. So, the pricing [...]

  How much do you charge?

• About the information age and its transition to a more creative age, opening the field to right-brainers like me.

  The Right Brain for the Task

• This is for my own reference, but also for you, in case you’d like to see how I work. Since I’ve “upgraded my hard drive](http://nataliejost.com/new-hard-drive-need-advice, I’ve had to take note of each of the programs I use so often. Here are my favorites I use every day.

  “Adobe Creative Suite](http://www.adobe.com/creativesuite/main.html – graphic work

  “Firefox](http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ – the browser

  “Chris [...]

  Natalie’s Tools

• I decided to get a new hard drive. I’ve been using The Groom’s sucky computer for a few months now (the fans died in mine and I’m too lazy to fix it), and I was really getting impatient with the 40GB. I “found a deal](http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Western-Digital-Internal-Hard-Drive-WD2500JBRTL-/sem/rpsm/oid/70860/catOid/-12976/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do on a 250GB hard drive (woo hoo) and I’m in [...]

  New Hard Drive: Need Advice

• One of my favorite singers is Allison Krauss. If you’re not a bluegrass fan, you can still appreciate the clarity of her tone. She’s an amazing talent. One song I listen to a lot has this line that inspired this thought of defying gravity. She’s singing about a life on the road, running from certain [...]

  Defying Gravity

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  Firehouse Irony

• p(ex). I’m really disappointed in having to write this. I’ve just learned that the job I was promised is no longer available. Yes, folks, 8 business days before I was scheduled to start to work, my new boss emailed (not called, emailed) to say the big job they were counting on fell through and they [...]

  New Employer Offers Only False Hope

• I’m happy to announce today that “Mind & Media](http://www.blogforbooks.com/ had turned 1! Stacy Harp, founder and president, put out a “press release](http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/3/prweb360656.htm yesterday after I got my butt in gear and finished her new design!

  “Mind & Media the very first online publicity company that utilizes the blogosphere to promote Christian media, including books, film, and [...]

  Mind & Media Turns One

• So “I got the job](http://nataliejost.com/prayer-for-a-job-interview. We haven’t talked about money yet, but that’s not high in my head. I assume I’m in because the president called me 15 minutes after I left the interview to ask me how much memory I’d need on my PC and could I come in Monday to fill out some [...]

  Privacy says “see ya”