May 30th, 2006
My web design business pixelfork.com just finished the website for local ice cream parlor, the Creole Creamery. I was asked to build it based on the color scheme of the store, which was made up of lots of pink and red with a checkerboard floor. It’s certainly not your everyday color palette, and not one I’m very familiar with, but it was nice to mix it up. Visit the site here.
May 16th, 2006
Well, I’m proud to announce that my submission CSS Celestial Garden has been accepted and I’m now listed at Dave Shea’s CSS Zen Garden.
For those of you not acquainted with the Garden, it is a website that helped inspire many web designers to move from traditional table-based layouts to web standards-based layouts using CSS (cascading style sheets). In the past, websites were designed on one page. The content was styled with tags like “font,” “table” and “bold.” When it was time to redesign the site, it made the task a monumental undertaking, because each element on the page would have to be found and recoded.
Enter CSS. The idea behind CSS is to separate style from content. You can have one static HTML page, and style it from another an external file. The beauty and power behind separating the style from the content is exemplified in the CSS Zen Garden. The Zen Garden is made of one HTML file. 
The author, Dave Shea, invited other web designers to design a one page site based on the HTML page and submit their design’s CSS file and its images. As of this writing there have been 941 accepted submissions since 2003, of which I am now one.
May 2nd, 2006
It’s been a few weeks, but we’ve finally posted new photos of Madeleine. Our camera vanished (under mysterious circumstances, but that is for another day), which prevented us from posting her Easter pictures and taking any new ones until we replaced it. Oh well, maybe next year.