The New Transmission
4th September 2009 with 75 comments
As you can see, new layout. 
I don’t really like this one and it’s a bit of rubbish really. I became inspired by sticker photos, and combined it all with a scrapbook look. It doesn’t look great, but I’ll leave it up to you. I’m most proud of the navigation and the links. James helped me out with the navigation idea. It looked absolutely terrible before.
I got the background from Noctua-graphics from a Google search. I wasn’t originally going to use the woodgrain but then I remembered someone mentioning that woodgrain works with the scrapbook look. The photos are of Lilian, me, and James. I drew on the little hearts and decorations myself. The font I used is called Pointy.
I had trouble getting the thing to work with a transparent PNG, so I hope that because the background is non-fixed, it won’t hurt your eyes or anything.
I recently switched most of the visitor section to WordPress so if you notice any glitches let me know. Also, I accidentally deleted my affiliates page so whoever was on there – sorry. I won’t be adding any more people back. I only link who I want to link from now on.
My sidebar is a big mess, I know, so if you have suggestions for me, let me know. I want to actually put a little blurb in my sidebar. 
Well… speaking of cleaning things, James cut down his contact list on MSN some time ago, and told me to do so too. I thought of doing it, since I have about 300 on there. Most people on there have also changed email addresses. I deleted about twenty then gave up. But it’s a start.
I used to try and add every person in my grade on MSN. I don’t know why, but it wasn’t really the “cool” thing to do. I just thought it was handy, in case I needed to talk to these people. In other ways I guess it’s not; you get invited to mass conversations and such.
The point I’m really trying to get at is the lack of personality through MSN. Sure, I talk to close friends like James and Lilian and some of my online buddies. Every now and then I add another person I know online, or don’t know too well – but the fact is that I know them.
I don’t like it when people annoy me when my status is on “busy” or “away” – but I’ve ranted long and hard about that, and I want to move on to something slightly different.
Making conversation. It’s what you do, naturally. But isn’t it weird when you get a little conversation that goes like this:
Person: Hello!!
You: Hi.
Person: How are you?
You: Good!
Person: Haha cool.
The conversation ends. 
Look, I don’t mind you talking to me, but if you’re going to ask how I am, thank you for asking. But if we’re going to have a conversation like that, it’s a little bit strange.
And kind of annoying. Please don’t say “hi” if you don’t plan on talking about anything. It’s really weird. 
There are new pixels in the visitor section and a new caption competition so please enter. Sophia, congratulations on winning the round for August; I’ll be emailing you shortly.
I hope you guys are going well. 
! Keep up the good work, you three! =3
Love you loads!! 
I don’t think the sidebar is in a mess, but probably separate the names to two columns? Maybe it will look a little neater.
but then I had so many people in my list that i made a new e-mail just for close people and the other one for offline ones. 300 is a lot! Well, good luck and twenty is a start I would’ve gave up at 5 
<– i needed that i've gone hyper over a layout 
shutting up now! lol
That’s one of the things that I like the most about this place. Even in my school, the students in my classes are from all over,it’s a great mix. I mean, seriously, who would of thought I end up dating a white guy (Brian) LMAO. Just kidding.
The background works really well with the layout too! 
AND ONLY ON WORDPRESS. 
Also means more space occupied in my hard drive.
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james
4th September 2009 at 10:34 pm
Hahhaha. 26 people!
It’s great, not having to scroll about looking for people
It does look a bit odd with the grey boxes and all;
. It’s probably not as good as it could’ve been, given more time 
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Georgie
5th September 2009 at 12:51 pm
LOL. I just… kind of realised what you meant about the links looking weird with the grey boxes. I suppose they kind of do, when you see a lot of them at once.
But I like them.
I actually never look in my MSN list for people. I left click the icon in the system tray, click “send instant message”, and then type in part of the person’s name or email. Works better than opening the window.
Well, now that they have the “favourite” contacts, I put the people I normally look for there.
Wait, wait… don’t tell me all this time you were scrolling to look for contacts when you could have searched for them?
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