Design

Check out my right sidebar!  I finally got feedburner going so now you can simply enter your email address to sign up for free updates to The Sensible Mom.  I had feedburner on my other blog, A Lot of Savings, but Ruben had set it up at the time so I was a little clueless as to how to get it going and visible for this blog.  Ruben didn’t exactly remember how it go it going almost two years ago for the old blog, so, there was a bit of learning that had to be done on my part.  Good learning, though.  This is something I’ll need to know in order to be able to get it set up for others when we start our business.

And did you notice that I changed the color of the wording inside the subscription box?  I love knowing HTML and CSS!  But I’m a little afraid because I just started learning HTML/XHTML over the last few months and it seems soon enough designers are going to start using the newest version of HTML which is called HTML5.  There’s also a new version of CSS in the works called CSS3.  I guess I’ll have to check out a few books to learn all the cool new tags and functions available to us and to find out what is being pitched (depracated) in place of the newer code.

I’m taking a week off of doing our Proverbs 31 Bible study and instead posting on something that has been on my mind for the last few months.

As many of you know, I’m studying to become a web designer and in doing so, I’m learning just how much hard work it takes to put a web site together that is both user friendly and visually appealing. A good web site doesn’t just “happen.” It takes a lot of time of time, skill, effort, and an eye for design to get the job done. We’ve all been to good and bad web sites, and because of this we can appreciate when a site has a great design. It makes the content more attractive and more likely to be read.

Well, I have often found myself leaving school and driving home in awe of God as I look at the the design He has created around me. The sun, sky, clouds, trees, fields, people…..all so wonderfully and masterfully designed for His pleasure and our benefit. Seeing all of the design around me which the Lord has so powerfully spoken forth is amazing. He is the Great Designer indeed.

All of this (earth, space, time, plants, animals, stars, you, me….) didn’t just “happen.” No. There is a Creator and a masterful Designer in it all.

I’ve found a song that makes my heart worship the Lord and reminds me of how awesome a designer He is, too. Take a listen…..

Thank you, Jesus, for speaking this world in existence and sustaining it with Your powerful hand. Studying design has made me see with fresh eyes the design You have brought forth around me.

Hi everyone! The Sensible Mom has a new look. I know I said it was going to happen last week, but it didn’t. Better late than never, right? But thank you for your patience.

The new design is pretty much finished with the exception of the sidebars. Those sidebars! What to put in them? I’ll have to keep on working on them little by little and hopefully find out what I want to do with them. In the meantime, feel free to let me know what you think.

Oh, and I have revamped our scheduled for the 859th time so that I can get back into a routine of going to bed before midnight and waking up early so that among other things, I can have some blog time. Since we’ve been in school, I have adopted the night-owl life. And the late nights generally consist of homework and talking to my husband about homework, websites, web design, and all things related. Boring, huh?

But, seriously, I am so ready to get back into the routine of waking up early. And on that note….I’m headed off to get ready for bed.