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Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 4:44 PM
Some New Art


Yay it's Ruby Gloom! I unchibified her and drew her in my own style.




This is some sort of drawing of my mom. A couple of days ago, I had a dream about her looking like this, except she had white hair. She looked like this women when I saw my mom. I had never seen my mom in such a condition before. So I'm not sure if that was a vision or not.




In all her gloomy glory is...Ruby Gloom! Chibi version! ♥




This is Adriana. My made up character. Photobucket




YAY!~ A picture of Watanuki without his glasses.
He looks cool without 'em.

♥, Yuki




Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 4:04 PM
Website Tips

Ok, I'm writing this post because a lot of certain people I know are asking me for web design tips.

Lets start off.

1. Layout and Appearance
Nobody wants to go to a site where the background is white and there's just a bunch of text. It would be boring, wouldn't it?
Learn some HTML, people! Go google HTML guides.

HTML helps us build our sites to make it nice, clean and pretty.

Without HTML, every site on the internet would be white and bland.

I can't exactly teach people HTML, but guides on the internet can!

There are tons of sites on the net that will help you with that.

Anyway, on with the guide.

First of all, when making a layout you should choose some images to put on it.
Unless your some twisted pervert, put something that's appropriate for all viewers.
A picture that suits your tastes, like a beach scene for example, is nice for your layout.

You also need some colors to match your layout. Don't just use one color, like blue, and just use the same shade for everything, like your text and image. Everything would blend in and you won't be able to see anything!

Try using different shades of certain colors, or maybe a combo of them. I use the blue-black combination of colors a lot for my layouts.

Also, every color has a match! Don't match it with something lame!
A good combo would be something like pink, green and white. A bad combo would be neon blue, brown and gray.

Ok, so we have our nice-looking layout!
"IT'S PERFECT!"
No. You forgot something!
"What?"
NEATNESS.

Neatness is a top priority when it comes to web designing.

If your site was disorganized, nobody would come.
It would be super hard to navigate and also hard to read stuff.

Use HTML to help! With the help of tables, iFrames and columns, your site will be neat
in no time!


2. Content
As I said before, unless you're some twisted pervert, your blog should have "clean", appropriate content.

"Yeah, clean, appropriate content...what content is clean and appropriate?"

Good content is stuff that's interesting.

Stuff you could write on your site could be about hobbies like sports, famous people, art etc. You could also write about your personal life. Just try not to write anything a regular person would do. It wouldn't be interesting at all.

For example:
"Today I ate eggs for breakfast. I drank cold milk with it, too. Then I went to school. I saw my friends. I think they are emo. They talk about emo music. They like eggs, though. I like eggs."

That paragraph is boring, eh?

There are tons of unfortunate emos out there. But I don't know about the egg part.

Overall, nothing seems to catch your interest, right?

If your gonna write about some one or your life, it should be different than other people's. Other people deal with people that love eggs.

Not many people go traveling every month. Most people don't get the chance.

Writing about that would be nice. You could take pictures of your travels and stuff like that.

Not many people write about being in the Olympics. That would be interesting, too.

These subjects are things in life that rarely happen to people.

Those are things in life that people like to read.

Everyone hates the same old thing over and over. Without uniqueness, the world would be the most uncreative, bland place ever.

Anyway, once you pick an interesting subject for your site/blog/whatever, you should write about it.
"Ok!"
So, Conscience, write something on your non-existent site!
"...Ok! I'm done now! Here's what it says:

2day i went 2 da fair that came in town y3st3rday. it was aw3s0me!
there wuz these cl0wns and j00glers that d1d trix like flips and stuffz.
i saw dis guy walk across da tite r0pe and a guy put his intire hed in a lyon's
m0uth! it was like sw33t. after da show i went to look @ the fr33ks. there was a
guy that h@d only one eye and wuz like staring @ me wi3rdly - "

STOP.

MY EYES.

Conscience, that was a nice subject, but...you could have done a few teeny weeny little touch-ups...like, THE GRAMMAR.

"Ah, I see."

No seriously. That grammar is murder. I can't even read that stuff.

Note to all you readers: When writing don't use bad grammar like Conscience did. People will just leave. It's really hard to understand that stuff.
"Don't judge me. "

Try not to put so much content that it takes 3 hours just for one page to load. People will get impatient and leave.

Try to keep things balanced. Not to many pictures and not to much text.

Anyway, that takes care of the content. On to the next subject!


3. Visitors
There are good visitors and bad visitors.

The good ones leave a nice comment like "Your site is so cool! I LOVE IT! :D" "yo, nice site. sweet tunes u put on here." "Great stuff! I love the layout!"

Whenever somebody leaves a nice comment, I always reply to it.

When you reply to somebody's kindness, people appreciate you.

Now this is where everything gets negative.

Sometimes people just leave a message like this:
"OMG YOUR SITE IS SO LIKE LAME. EWWW THE LAYOUT IS SO CRUDDY. YOU SUCK!!!111"
"my eyes...it burns...this is like the worst site EVAR."
"lol the crud u write on here is so lame. gtfo. loser."

It's best you don't reply to these messages no matter how easily offended you are.
If you can, delete them immediately.
Nobody likes a hater.

Unless you can't remove these rude comments, then either ignore the user or just block the person from ever coming back to your site.

"I have awesome content, a great layout but I don't have any visitors. What should I do?"

I suggest you go explore sites. Then comment on them. Leave a link to your site, too!

Random people click on random links to other sites. That's how they get to places.

If you're nice enough, the person may make you a friend. A.k.a. affiliate or affie you.

They add your link to their site and you add theirs to yours.

Then your buds can stay connected with each other!

Also, you can join fanlistings. They're basically sites that are for fans of things.

Like for example, you're a fan of Fergie or some one really famous. You go google Fergie fanlistings. There's a huge list of links, you click on one and join the fanlisting.

Once you join, you can add your link to the fanlisting.

You must add the fanlisting's link to your site, too.

People that have joined this fanlisting will randomly visit different sites and may click on yours.

You can also join web directories. It's basically a site that has a bunch of links to other sites that all belong in different categories.

Once you join, you can visit other sites too.

Web directories are just like fanlistings except you don't have to be a fan of anything, you have to have a website.

Link the directory to your site and you're all set!


4. Originality and Effort
No one likes idea thieves.

People like sites that are original and unique.

When naming your site, think of an interesting catchy name. Something that no other site has.

But there is such thing as being too unique. Like naming your site '1663324'.
Obviously, you haven't put any effort into thinking of a nice name.

There are many sites that are written on the same subjects, but each specific thing the creators of these sites write are totally different.

Being unique is something everyone likes. Be original, be creative, be AWESOME!

Now, onto effort.

Nobody likes a site with no effort put into it. People that worked hard on their site usually have tons of visitors.

The more effort you put into your work, the better the results.

~~~~~ +++ [[ ♥♥♥ ]] +++ ~~~~~

This ends my guide.

Hope it helps!

If your to lazy to find HTML guides, here are some links where I learned them.

PixelFX Tutorials
Webmonkey for Kids
Lissa Explains It All

Here are also some resource sites you might need.

Pyzam
BlogSkins
CBox

Later days.

♥, Yuki




Sunday, April 13, 2008, 4:36 PM
Reunited

Today, the day of the week that I dread most, had come.

Sunday.

I was in for loads of boredom and nonsense from church.

But I just had to get through with this, or else I'd break my mom's heart.

She may be the cruelest mother ever imagined, but after all, she is my mother.

Even worse, I'd hurt my mom's friend. I'll call her Mrs. Ophyllia.

She's an opposite of my mom. Nice, kind, the usual granny act.

Since my mother's absence, I've went to church with Mrs. Ophyllia.

Heck, she's one of the nicest people I know.

But she believes in this religion stuff. Which(in MY opinion, don't kill me for this)is totally bogus to me.

If there was a God of any kind, I would be able to actually speak to this god and he'd reply. I'd hear this reply.

If there was a God I'd see him, but I can't.

I could go on about reasons being non-religious stuff, but I better get on with the story.

I got bored in church, waiting until the service would end so we could have fun going out at lunch.

The bible classes and major church production practice seemed to drag on for hours...

But it all ended after a while.

Mrs. Ophyllia took me and my bro to [Swiss Caret].

We had a fun time eating and talking. Nice food.

After that, we walked back to the car.

My brother was jumping around smiling, commenting the ribs and fries he ate and how delicious they were.

Then Mrs. Ophyllia spoke. "So kids, I asked your dad if it was ok if we could go see your mom at [Sunny Rivers] Hospital. Is that ok with you guys?"

My brother fell silent.

I paused for a moment and thought for a second. "...Sure, why not?"

Mrs. Ophyllia looked pleased. "The nurses at the hospital have been asking me for a while if I could bring you kids to your mom. It would help her a lot!"
"Yeah."
"So, little guy, what do you think?"
My brother stared at Mrs. Ophyllia for a second.
"Ok." He answered with his cute face.
"Alright, kids, a friend of mine is going to bring us over to [Sunny Rivers], his name is [Darrel]. He's from church, remember?"
Another person from church. Oh joy.

***

We arrived at the hospital after sitting in a stuffy car for two hours.

"Isn't it great that we'll get to see your momma again?" She grinned.
"Yeah." I answered with a solemn smile.

We walked through the hospital, looking inside open room doors, getting a glance of the injured and sick people inhabiting the little rooms.

People walked around in blue robes with tubes stuck up their noses, necks and heads.

I felt so bad for these unlucky people.

They stared at me the same way I did to them, and I looked away.

We found our mom sitting in a wheel chair, wrapped in a blue blanket with some bloodstains on it.
A small gash on the right side of her head hid under her thin layers of hair.
When we came, one of her eyes opened.

"Hello [Tammi], remember [Yuki] and your son? They're here!"

My mom stared at me with her one eye open. Her face looked hurt.

I held my mom's hand.

"With you guys here, she must be very happy." She smiled at us again. "Each time I visit, [Tammi] is stronger and stronger each day. Because of God's healing hand, she's still alive. All that she needs now is some rest."

I felt sort of better now that I was with my mom. I've never seen her like this. I felt really bad for her and started to feel differently for my mom. She never knew how to show love to her kids, but I still love her as my mom.

As I looked at my mom, I noticed she was straining her face to keep one eye open.

She was still recovering from her coma, so she needed to get used to using her senses.

Mrs. Ophyllia talked about me and my bro and what was going on in church. We also pushed her chair around the hospital.

"[Tammi], you're going to be fine. Once you recover, you'll be back in church in no time!"
"Yeah, Mom, you'll get better soon." I smiled at mom.

We stopped at a window near a stairwell.

"Look at the pretty blue sky, [Tammi], can you remember the beautiful sky on Sunday mornings?"
Mom stared out the window. Her mind wandering off to memories from the old days.
My mom was still in a coma. She could still hear and see everything, but she couldn't react to all this yet. Only her left side of her mind had recovered so that's why she was still in a coma, but it was a light one.

After talking a while we went back to my mom's room and greeted Darrel and her wife.

"We're all praying for you, [Tammi].", answered Darrel's wife.

We chatted more and then headed home.

I stared at the blue sky, thinking about the past events.

Get better soon, Mom.

♥, Yuki




Thursday, April 3, 2008, 5:23 PM
Yay, More Doodlez!


MY PICS ARE BACK!~

Enjoy.

No...My stupid camera always turns my pictures sideways...

This is a picture of one of my characters, Lisa. She's an adventurous chick that loves flying in her airplane with her buddy, Jay. Here she is, in her sideways glory, sitting on a mountain's edge. I wish I could grab one of those mountains as toothpicks.

[Click to enlarge, the image is so huge, it can't fit in these margins.]

Oh no, I didn't snap any shots of Jay.

Now I need to recharge my stupid camera for a whole day.

I'll post a bunch of pics later tomorrow.

♥, Yuki