I am a mom, entrepreneur, occasional blogger, and creator. I recently launched Here Comes the Apocalypse, a self-paced disaster preparedness system with a dark sense of humor. My team and I make up Artsy Geek, a top-ranked Bay Area branding and digital agency.
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My dad saved me this article on “The Art of Online Portraiture” in social media from the Wall Street Journal the other day. He clipped it out and sent it with my sister when she came to visit last Thursday. Do you realize that in fifty years no one will ever think of clipping something out of the newspaper? That perhaps there won’t be newspapers at all??
Anyway, this article (which you can read here in the Wall Street Journal online) is about how important your photos are to your social media presence. Especially when using social media professionally as we all ought to. The right picture strikes the right one, the article advises.
I read through it bragging inwardly about how awesome and professional my photo is. Even if it doesn’t capture me in action working at the computer or walking down the street as the article suggests one ought. I recognized that was pretty good advice, but still was feeling mighty good about this shot littering the internet:
And then I remembered how just last week I sent professional messages to potential attendees of my E-commerce seminar from my Facebook account.
I was over at AWeber.com to explore their email marketing services. So many get-rich-quick-schemers I follow on the Internet use AWeber.com and there must be a reason.
According to AWeber.com, one of their customers is CopyBlogger. Check out their feature on aweber.com:
Obviously AWeber.com themselves could use their services. Oh what is the world coming to??
Hello! Nothing special happening here. I’m just sitting around with Emily. Guess what I don’t like Andrew C. no more. Isn’t that great? I mean if he asked, I’d go out with him! Of course. Now I don’t know who to like. Maybe I’ll like David M. He’s in my advisement class. Nah, Erica likes him. I won’t. Well maybe…
Scool’s boring so TGIS! Becky wrote and asked: Has any guys asked you out yet? Doesn’t she think she’d know if they had?
I want to have a date for the Halloween Dance. (normal name for once!) I thought I’d be going to it w/ Andrew. Oh well. Maybe I’ll have better luck with guys this time.
Bonsoir! Tonight I had to call Amy, Becky, Erika G, and Jenny. It was so wierd talking to Amy on the phone. Here I was talking to the person I’d give anything to be better-than-acquaintences with and I was uncomfortable. Talking to Becki was cool though, she’s so sweet!
No improvements in me and Andrew. I don’t think I like him anymore but I might. Last night I had something like a mental breakdown. I was crying and my mom wasn’t someone I could talk to about it.
Today Emily asked Andrew if he liked me. He said “no!” Worse yet he said it with scorn! The thing is that I’m to shaken to be upset. I’m still trying to believe he said no! He wasn’t in my dreams. Well, yes he was. The thing is I don’t even know what his face looks like! Can you like a guy if you don’t remember what they look like? Now he knows I like him. Well, he doesn’t know exactly, but he can figure it out. He’s smart.
This has to be the best product I’ve seen in a long time. Vases that look like they were cable knit. Finally, a vase that captures the holiday spirit!
I can just picture my sweetie bringing me some flowers in the depths of winter. Though they are speckled with snow, the flowers glow with warmth wrapped in this ceramic sweater vase!
I’m homesick today. Cool huh? NOT! I have the biggest headache in the whole world. Last night I had something close to a mental break-down. Last night I dreamed about Andrew C. I didn’t like the dream cause even though we were going out Andrew C. also liked Emily. Not good. Tonight I’m going ice-skating. I love to ice skate. It just lets me forget all of my problems.
I hate the fucking crap out of Ana. I hate her more than Emily hates Jennifer M. for going out with Jeff. I’m just glad Andrew C. isn’t going out with anybody.
Last Friday I asked y’all for your honest feedback about my new design.
I got four wonderfully truthful critiques (I LOVE CRITIQUES) and one very positive thumbs up (I LOVE FLATTERY) on my current, horizontal design.
Here it is for posterity, photographed on my big, spacious designer monitor where it looks really nice if I do say myself:
It also looks super hot on iphones and ipads (I think). ANYWAY, I am totally one hundred percent convinced that this foray into pushing the boundaries of web design to the limits was a total waste of time. I’m salivating over a new, sexy, vertical design so much that it’s painful to update this website as is.
I feel the need to defend this design a little bit. Or myself. I had just gone to WordCamp and gotten all these new skills that I needed to put into action IMMEDIATELY. One of them is the little diary photos at the beginning of each Diary Project post and that I never got working right in Internet Explorer (made possible in Firefox, Chrome and Safari by “pseudo elements”; thank you Chris Coiyer, awesome speaker and geeky blogger). Check them out on the post to the right (or below) but again, not if you’re running IE.
Sara Cannon taught me about responsive web design in which a website actually changes it’s layout depending on the size of the window. I should make a video for this. OK, fine, here’s a video:
The last design iteration of Jenniferheller.com got painful too. I’m so sick of looking at those clouds. And I realized that a sorta ex-friend was referring to the clouds when she was criticizing my “pixelated graphics” the other year. We all have our axes to grind.
It’s interesting to me how much I love to update this website when I love the design and how much I hate doing it when I don’t. I tell this to my clients — “When you have a website you love, you love updating it.”
Photo taken August 21st, 2011, before the horizontal scrolling action took over.
It’s so true. And this is one of the greatest things about WordPress. You can dramatically alter the look and feel of a website just by flipping a switch. What’s that? You’d like to know where you can get a sexy WordPress website? Check me out over at Artsy Geek.
And now I’m off to develop my new theme on one of my testing ground websites and will go live with it as soon as I’ve tunneled to the bottom of my pile of volunteer and client work. I can hardly wait.
Today after science Andrew goes to the six-hundred building and I go to band. Anyway Andrew was getting pushed around by his usual friends (the cliche) I (of course) was watching him. I had been watching him for about two seconds and he looked at me! Our eyes met and it was wonderful! Too bad it was only for a few seconds, though!
I’m in Love
Note how I switched to pink ink for “I’m in Love” and followed it by a flock of floating hearts.
