Buried treasure

Deep in "the closet" of my hard drive, I found this gem. It's a web banner that is still used at the top of a coworker's blog about movies (recent and not, mainstream and less-than), and even some "Battlestar Gallactica" postings.

Granted, there's a few things I would have done a little differently with the banner, and I definitely wish I could have redone it or helped with the color swatching when they widened the format, but given that I made this banner when my knowledge of Photoshop was still a bit on the beginners' side of the fence, I'm pretty happy that I still like it.

The coworker must have liked it all right as well; she and another coworker later sought me out to do illustrations for their e-zine, "The Dead Protagonists Society."

On cloud... three?

I have a label cloud! NEAT!
(It's on the right, three items down.)

I've wanted one of these since I first laid eyes on one on someone else's blog. Yes, I covet thine Label Cloud. So, in my ongoing efforts to triumph over technology, I did what any respectable geek would do:

I came. I saw. I conquered.
OK, in reality... I Googled. I backed up. I copied, pasted and poked around in the coding.

If I can do it, so can you. Someone else has already done the heavy lifting. (Thanks, Phydeaux3... whoever you are...) It's up to you to break it apart to get it to conform to your own preferences. Oh, and like I mentioned above, don't forget to back up your blog before you go tinkering with all that coding.

Good luck, and have fun!