now that i’ve ranted. i’m nervous about having to rewrite my paradise lost essay. i think it went about it all wrong and what needed revision now needs to be razed to the ground. i made a new art piece. used images from that stock exchange place. i hadn’t done anything artistic in so long it was a challenge. i also reworked the layout of my art site. i have to look at it in firefox (the school computers only use ie).

my life is safely boring, at the moment. no real crisises except that i have no meds left and i’ll probably have to drive quite a ways to get a refill. i hate driving by myself. i hate doing just about anything by myself. i don’t need a person’s attention to be on me but i just need someone i know close by (unless i’m at school or work). i wonder what the doctors would call that. pathetic? i know that doctor from the hospital when i was seventeen called it borderline. isn’t everybody borderline these days? everyone self-diagnoses. i try to refrain from that because it gets me nowhere. i’ll just stick with what the doctor throws at me and work from there.

i’ve been going through all the links for my art site and one thing i keep coming across is poor navigation. i can’t figured out what i’m supposed to click or the place where i’m supposed to click is for ie only. why is it oh-so-clever to put little numbers or little boxes or non-related words as a source of navigation? i’ve never understood that. as i’m trying to make my own sites more standards compliant the problems with some sites glare at me. if i can’t figure out the navigation but the art is brilliant i probably will move on to someone less brilliant who has links i can click on.

it’s not cute to put tiny little navigation. save the art for the actual artwork. layouts can be pretty but i need big buttons or nice, sane links somewhere. somehow it seems the writing or text driven sites i come across take into account that not everyone can figure out you need to click the three pixel stars scattered across the portrait or or the words in whatever quote is in the layout image.

it’s not the case for all art sites. it’s usually the ones with trendy fandom based art or photomanipulations or collages.

art sites. please, just real navigation. words that actually say what that section of the site is. or at least you can move over the image and a title will pop up spelling out where that particular dot leads to. just take the extra time to allow casual visitors who are not your friends to browse the site without giving up in frustration. if i had not been looking for links to resources i would have given up sooner and, if i were a newbie, i would have clicked out immediately. think about it.