jade / graphics

New layout and tidying up

2009-01-09T11:05:00.002-06:00

Ok, starting the month gemstone layouts today. ^_^ January's birthstone is garnet, so nice and sparkly and red. And before anyone asks, I'm using the common birthstone for each month. I know there are different stones sometimes for different months, but I'm going by what I know and what most sites say. *shrugs* There's also a matching wallpaper, just because.

Also went through and tidyed up some things. The pagination is now more visible on the layout pages, which also show more per page to eat up that whitespace, the contact form actually matches again, and I did some CSS work to make the fonts a bit more consistant. Let me know if you find any problems! ^_^

Happy New Year!

2009-01-04T19:19:00.002-06:00

Welcome to 2009! A few tidbits to get the ball rolling:

- New affilate! {/cheer} Welcome to Fake Wings, a site full of some very lovely layouts. Go check it out, but don't forget to come back, yeah? ^^

- New layouts for 2009! I have a plan to do a special layout every month this year featuring the common gemstone of that month. That's not to say I won't do other layouts, but you can be assured of at least one layout update per month. Whee!

Umm.....Acutally, that's not many tidbits, is it? ^^; So I shall leave you with that and go rest up from the long drive I had today. Ta, and catch ya'll later! ^^

It's offical!

2008-12-22T13:53:00.005-06:00

Graphics by Dubird is now Jadeslash Graphics (aka jade/graphics)! After much consideration and thought and talking about, the name has offical been changed. Graphics by Dubird will be a more or less 'sub' part of the site, as all my layouts and other graphics that I put my name on will still say that. However, this also opens this site up to possible submissions, depending on how much space I can get when I can afford to put it onto it's own server. You can now use the address jadeslash.com to get here, as well as dubird.net/free. Before the Christmas break, I'll go through and finish rewriting some sections and fixing up a few things to reflect the name change, but most of it is changed anyways. So, welcome to the new name, and we'll make next year the best one here yet! ^_^

Live previews are done!

2008-12-11T14:40:00.001-06:00

Yesh, I finally got them all up, all thumbnails updated, and everything is linked properly. *dies* I also have a new layout here, which I'm really happy with, as well as some other tidying up that I've done. It is a little early for the new layout, but I was excited about it and so figured why not? ^_^; Enjoy!

So many things to do...

2008-12-02T13:06:00.001-06:00

Ok, not done with the live previews yet, still working on it. Blaurgh. Sorry, but between the crappy connection I had at my uncle's house and falling off a horse, I kinda got thrown off my plans for the weekend. At least I got my sketching done.

Oh, and I do have two custom layouts to do which I will be working on this week, so no new free layout. But I will hopefully get the live previews done and that'll take care of that. ^_^;

Major update

2008-11-26T09:40:00.001-06:00

NOTE!

I'm reworking the database today, so layouts may or may not be functional. However, when I'm done, live previews will be avaliable! So hold on to your heads. *nods*

New layout

2008-11-24T14:51:00.001-06:00

Sorry for the silence, the last couple of weeks have been rather stressful. And, this weekend I'll be out of town. I did complete one layout, and I've got a couple others I want to work on, but I can't give you any kind of date when they'll be ready.

In other news, my truck has been revived! It's still Weakened, but I'm hoping that will wear off soon. *nods*

Another new layout?

2008-10-28T15:23:00.000-06:00

Yesh. To make up for lack of updates lately, another new one this week! It's also a Trigun one. When I cleaned out the old layouts, I inadvertantly took down all my Trigun ones, and I felt bad because that ment that I didn't have them showing up on my Trigun site. But now it's better. ^_^

Eep!

2008-10-27T09:14:00.002-06:00

Been a bit busy of late, sorry 'bout that. But I don't come back emptyhanded! New layout and wallpaper (that I love!) and bit of general tidying up.

Also, started watching Hellboy 2 last night, didn't finish because I was too tired. But I will say this: it's amusing enough I'm going to try and finish it tonight after FFXI. I mean, evil tooth fairys? That's just bizarre enough I have to keep watching! XD

Pagination!

2008-10-08T09:50:00.001-06:00

Whee! Finally figured that out, so the layouts now have 5 per page. That will hopefully make it easier to view. I'm working on a layout remake now, but I just haven't had a lot of extra time lately. I'll hopefully have something for you by the weekend.

Layout redo

2008-09-26T10:28:00.001-06:00

No new one, but redid the snow one for Tsuzuki from Yami no Matsuei. I was always not happy with the original, as I had the sizing wrong, but wasn't sure how to fix it. Well, now it's fixed. It's still a little big in 800x600, but at least you don't need the scroll bars anymore.

I've also been through and have been redoing old sites and getting some things off this server to make more room. Right now, this site is the biggest resource hog, but I can't afford a new server for a while, so I'm rather stuck with it. Unfortunatly, that means no live previews yet. I am working on it, and I hope to have things a little more under control after I move to a new place, which will be after the first of the year, but I can't guarentee anything. But don't worry, I don't plan on shutting this down! ^_^; I'll just have to work within my limitations. *shrugs*

New and redo

2008-09-19T13:36:00.003-06:00

New layout, simple blue/gray winter theme. Also, started in on the old layout redos. I'm going to go through the old ones still on the site first and update them. They're still good, just could use a bit of updating and 'tightening' up in the code. I'll remove them and readd them in the database so you'll know which ones are updated.

Ok then...

2008-09-16T20:31:00.000-06:00

Went through and pulled quite a lot of my older layouts. Some will be remade because I still like the idea, but it'll be a little while before I get them back up. And there's still some that I'd like to redo, but I'm leaving them up for now because there's not really anything wrong with them, they just need a bit of tidying up.

Anyhoo, will hopefully have something new for you by the end of the week. ^^

New tutorial

2008-09-11T10:51:00.002-06:00

This week's update is a new tutorial on using Illustrator to do lineart from a sketch. It's in two parts, and is hopefully easy to follow. ^_^;

In other news, I'm going to go through and clean out old layouts. Some I will update and put back up, but most are just going away. There are lots in there from before CSS started being used, and they're just not good layouts anymore. So sometime in the next week, a bunch will disappear, but afterwards, I'll start updating and fixing up some of those to look nice and new. I do have a couple other layouts I've been working on, as well, so hopefully I won't get too busy at work to get them finished as well.

I'm also working on a new layout for here. I've gone through about 4 other versions so far, but none seem to be what I want. But this next one looks promising. ^_^ I do plan on moving this to it's own domain in the near future, which will mean the layouts have live previews again! So sign up for the RSS feed over to the right if you want to know when that happens. ^_^

New layout

2008-09-05T14:26:00.002-06:00

New layout for you, sorry it's a bit late. Stressful week. >< Anyhoo, layout inspired by the song "Voodoo Child" by Rogue Traders. Well, the video for it anyways. Which I originally heard on Dr. Who. And now that I've been listening to a couple of their albums, I'm rather enjoying their music. Isn't it funny how that works out?

New layout

2008-08-26T09:47:00.002-06:00

New layout, simple dark green with bamboo. More playing around, actually.

Also, updated the TOS with a few things. Nothing major, just tidying up.

IMPORTANT NOTE

2008-08-19T09:42:00.002-06:00

Wallpapers are going to be messed up for a bit. I need to restructure how they work in the database and rename files, so if you can't get them to work, that's why. I should be done by the end of the day, though, and I'll post here when done. ^_^

Edit: Well, wasn't that just whizzer? XD All the wallpapers are in their correct directories, and the count over there now reflects all of them, including the Gundam Wing ones. (and yes, that count jumped a LOT, i've done a lot of GW wallpapers! ^_^;) Now, granted, the 'latest wallpapers' isn't 100% accurate, but it is close. Because of how I merged the data, a lot of the GW wallpapers got put after a few of the newer, other wallpapers. But since they're all older from before I started this database, it's as close as I could get. At least now they're all together and will make keeping it updated eaiser. You know, when I have something to update it with. ^_^;

New layout and wallpaper

2008-08-18T12:23:00.001-06:00

New layout and wallpaper for Gundam Wing. Yes, the wallpaper doesn't show up. For various reasons, the GW wallpapers are in a seperate table, and I haven't figured out how to combine that data yet. ^_^;

New layout and some organization

2008-08-12T14:04:00.003-06:00

Two new layouts, actually, but it's kinda cheating because it's the same layout, just with two different color schemes. I couldn't decide which one I liked better. *shrugs*

Other news is that I finally got the catagories for the Gundam Wing wallpapers up. I finally got that fixed over at the gwg, so I was able to just make a few minor changes and load it up here. It's so nice having all that info on one database now! ^_^;;

I also really need to clean out old layouts. But I really hate to just get rid of them, you know? Maybe I should start some kind of graveyard. Then, I can put newer layouts up with full previews instead of screenshots. *ponders*

New layout, a bit late

2008-08-04T13:24:00.001-06:00

Sorry, the last couple of weeks have been rather stressful. It's not quite over, as I'm still having truck troubles, but most things have settled down. To celebrate, a new layout featuring Osaka from Azumanga Daioh. Just because she's hilariously cute. ^_^

Tutorials!

2008-07-11T09:49:00.003-06:00

Because of various things this week, I don't have anything graphical. But I do have a couple of tutorials. One is a simple rose tutorial on how to color a rose. An experiment that turned out right, so I decided to whip that up this last weekend and see if anyone would find it useful. The other one is more an article than a tutorial, but it's tips for building websites that I put together after visiting some really bad websites. *shudders* Anyhoo, that's it for this week and I'll try and get a new layout next week. ^_^

Downtime and New Layout

2008-06-30T08:26:00.002-06:00

Apologies for the lack of updates. The Shuttle has been limping along for a couple weeks, and I haven't gotten Rosaleen up and running yet. But I was playing around and finished a layout today since it's been a slow work day. Nothing fancy, but I rather liked it. *shrugs* Enjoy!

New Layout

2008-06-17T09:50:00.002-06:00

New generic layout, just some playing with different colors and CSS effects. Nice and simple. ^_^

Delayed layout

2008-06-09T13:35:00.002-06:00

Sorry for the unexpected delay last week. Got hit with a few extra things that needed doing. ^_^; But never fear! I am back with a new layout, and hopefully some new PNGs this week sometime. Whee. ^_^

No update this week

2008-05-28T13:28:00.001-06:00

AKon is this week, so no update. But I will have a new anime layout next week when I get back. ^_^