March, 2006

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 [...]

+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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I have a job interview this morning! I was waiting to share this because a part of me is still seven and a jinx is still a scary thing. Anyway, I’m meeting with the president and director of web development this morning at 10:30 CST. Please… would you pray for the three of us, for [...]

In a few weeks I’ll be finished with my associate degree in business. I decided on business because for that level of degree there really isn’t much else. I was pretty sure I wanted to continue on in web design, but two years is a long time and I knew I could change my mind [...]

You know, my brother-in-law thinks I’m nuts because I often forget to lock the door when I leave the house but I’m scrict about locking it when I’m home. Sound weird? It comes from our life in the country. We used to live in the middle of nowhere and never really thought about locking the [...]

“Shawn](http://www.sporadicnonsense.com/2006/02/07/dealing-with-telemarketers brought up the subject of telemarketers and I had this story, but it was really too long to take up comment space on someone else’s blog.

We moved in with my brother-in-law’s house last summer to save some money while we look for a house to live in down here (we have a house in [...]

The groom got this one in about 20 seconds – I’m just not that smart this early in the morning. :) It was the “greater than God” one that threw me.

“What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you’ll die?”

NOTHING

“http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan06/GatesCIS.ws.html](http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan06/GatesCIS.ws.html

“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $25 million to Cornell University to support the construction of the signature building for a planned information campus that will bring together the several units of the university’s Faculty of Computing and Information Science (CIS).” …

… “The Gates Foundation’s grant will have a transformative effect [...]

The makers of “Basecamp](http://basecamphq.com/?referrer=nataliejost have written a book entitledGetting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application. Find “sample chapters and purchase a downloadable version](https://gettingreal.37signals.com/ of the book from “37Signals](http://37signals.com/. I didn’t know the first thing about building a web app, but now I do – know the first thing… design [...]