skinning

From: me (you-know-who at domesticat.net)
To: Jenn (jenn at intensified dot org )
CC: Gareth (hi Gareth!)
Subject: Questions regarding your skinning tutorial

Hello -

My name is Amy, and I am the owner of domesticat.net. It was recently suggested to me that I pay close attention to one of the tutorials that you have posted on intensified.org.

As I’m coding, he comes up behind me, wraps his arms around me and says, “You do such neat things.” After the past 24 hours, I think that was exactly what I needed to hear.

In lieu of a new journal entry, I proffer the latest cat.net skin, “gothgirl.” Like all the others, it’s available at the skins page. With it, I’m inaugurating a new script that I plan to make available in a few more of the cat.net skins soon: random entries.

Not all the changes that take place here show up on the front page, but some are worth noting here when they happen.

Oh, dammit to hell.

I am so close. I wanted to finish up the skin code for the site tonight and to call it a weekend and walk away. But, instead, I’m stuck with half-working code (the half that works is courtesy of Gareth) and a sick spouse who will probably beg out of our movie plans tomorrow.Lesson: what I attempt to do in thirty lines of code, Gareth can do in twelve or so. Ouch. Guess I got a bit of a reminder of why he’s a coder and I do graphics stuff.

I’ve also been doing a bit of work to domesticat that I wanted to mention. Some of it won’t actually appear on the site for some time, but it’ll make for a big splash when it does.

Brad kindly proffered a snippet of PHP that would allow me to add some functionality to the list of music artists that I serve up directly from my winamp playlists. The end result is that you can click on the artist, and it will do a Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” search.