IE6 always breaks my toys!
For those who still use IE6, please update your outdated browser, already! But I can’t please everyone just because they don’t want to update their browser :)
This is what you’ll get if you view my site in IE6, I think. I have a windows laptop and I don’t update my IE6 browser to the newest version purposely (only to check whether or not IE6 does what I want it to do), but I checked this site via IE NetRenderer if I use my mac and the screenshot above is the result of it. The H2 sidebar title is gone in that screenshot result. I haven’t checked this site on my laptop yet, but the main point is I’m not going to fix it if there’s any error, IE6 always breaks my toys. It also doesn’t allow transparency, I spent too much time fixing my header and the clowds background. I even made another CSS file for IE6.
This is what it looked like in IE6 before: if I make a transparent image, a grey overlay box appears around the transparent area! I’ve saved the image via “save for web” option in photoshop, and then chose png-24, interlace. But still I got that grey overlay box, which annoyed me so much that I’ve spent the whole night fixing it and haven’t slept! I managed to fix it by playing with padding; First, I wanted the clowd background to be repeated horizontally, so I used repeat-x in my CSS file, but if I make a header image with the same clowd background, and put it on my site, the clowds will be broken once I minimize and maximize my browser, and making the background transparent is a headache because again…I’ll get that grey overlay box in IE6. So? I’ve cut my header, use padding in my header-marge CSS and voila! It does what I want it to. It sounds so weird, but it’s what I’ve done.
This is the best IE6 rejection! LOL (via)
Up and running! Wohoo!
Can’t believe how sad and nervous I was because my site was expired! LOL! Sad because when I so wanted to make a new layout, it’s down! Nervous because I couldn’t wait any longer for H2GO to activate my site! And also because I was afraid to lose everything I have in my host as I haven’t backed it up! Thanks H2GO for a quick and good service!! Thumbs up! :-)
Anyway, I just made a few characters in Adobe Illustrator! Ended up feeling stupid because I actually can do what I wish I could! And that the things I wanted to make are bloody easy! LOL
Welcome to Dollymalia Valley!
The first character I’ve made! His name is Owly, a member of Dollymalia Valley! Why is it Dollymalia? It’s shortened of Doll and animal! Because what I make is mostly animal!
This bear’s name is Polly! I used this name Polly because my sister has a cute little bear named Polly, which she already has since she was younger than 15 (I don’t remember how old she was at the time she got it). Polly was her Christmas’s gift, and also her birthday’s gift as she celebrates her birthday on 25th December :)
They were born!
When Vanez was bored, lil bear Polly and lil owl owly were born!
Polly and Owly would like to thank Adobe Illustrator.
Now they need to go weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee……!!
That ambitious?!?
I was asking myself whether I’ve ever been ambitious with social networking. This blog subject popped up on my mind after I’ve seen what have happened around this internet world.
Adobe Illustrator and Street Art
Last year when I bought photoshop creative magazine I was impressed with Mark Verhaagen‘s work. So far, if I draw in adobe Illustrator I have to place an image first and then I use pen tool to follow the lines; I don’t know whether he first draws on paper and then edits it in illustrator, or he directly draws in illustrator using pen tool/pen tablet (graphics/drawing tablet). What I do know is that I am not able to draw directly in illustrator, I have to draw things on a paper first and then place it in illustrator, I have no drawing tablet so it’s hard for me to make some line in illustrator without having an image placed. I remember that I used to like drawing when I was just a kid. In my free time, drawing was one of my activities and I liked to draw manga (Rose of Versailles, Panic, Candy Candy, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball). Nowadays when I started drawing I realised that it’s my first time to draw again after so many years, in fact I haven’t drawn for more than ten years; Since I sat at junior high school, my activity in my free time wasn’t drawing, I was more outside of my house and I got a totally different interests, which were playing guitar and pool billiard.