Fiddle About!

This is my first blog post on here and I don't expect it to be very well-written or informative. I'm literally just writing to fill space but also to re-warn whoever stumbles onto this profile that it is a tedious work in progress. See, I had a myspace page when I was still in school but that's also around the time that i became obsessed with the Beatles and the 1960s. So my page was not TOO excessively blinged out or hot pink because I was doing everything I could to make it feel like i was living in the 60s/70s and avoiding anything that felt blatantly y2k themed. Obviously at the time we didn't know what would end up defining the milennial aesthetic at the time because it was a big mishmosh of the decades before us (look at a lot of authentic scene/emo style and tell me it's not dripping with the 80s...you say fashion mullet, I say 80s rockstar I always have) and looking back, a lot of it was pretty damn ugly ;D

A lot of the layouts I see on here are very reminiscent of websites from the turn of the millenium but honestly most regular people, even people like me that had a decent grip on html/css coding and did a good deal of photoshopping didn't completely override their layouts. That was for external websites. Like. It still looked like myspace? If that makes sense. But all the colors were custom, the fonts were TINY; and we didn't have emojis. Also? The top banner and the main contact menu were always customized. Until someone can comb through the source code for me and figure out how to do these things one by one you'll have to excuse me while I just use my old banner images that i *still* have in my photobucket from 2006-2008 :o0

Still. I'm impressed asf at the teenagers on here coding their little hearts out. It's got me fired up and ready to make a bunch of pixel art for my page. Yes, we used to do that dot by dot. No ipads or whatever. I didn't even have photoshop in those days, I had Paint Shop Pro ;P  It got the job done okay. But I didn't learn how to work in layers until years after I was already getting commissioned to do graphic designs. YIKES. Anywho...I do hope more old folks come out to play, or at least the 20 somethings tear themselves away from instagram long enough to slow down, smell the roses, and enjoy the internet the way it used to be before facebook RUINED OUR LIVES :D :D

Love you all to the MOON,

Miss Dollie <3 <3 <3