Interllectual: Andrea Schwandt-Arbogast on the interwebs

The online playground of Andrea Schwandt-Arbogast: web design, university web development, animals, books, and other slices of life.

poodle, purse, & pumps

Right. I realize that I haven’t blogged in over a year. I am working on remedying that, and have a bunch of half-finished projects to prove it. More on that later.

For now, here is my entry for the Handcrafted CSS Nashville Rebound Contest. The colors look a bit yuck surrounded by this site’s colors, so you can click on the image to see it on its own.

Posted 6 May 2010 • 3 Comments

Azure Kingfisher, Alcedo azurea

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Thanks, Ada

I think Matto has said it best for me today:

I have it on decent authority that the world is full of women who kick ass in Tech. You might know one. Go find one today and thank her.

Due to other plans I have for today, which …More »

Posted 23 Mar 2009 • 0 Comments

I’ve been trying to figure out how to sum up SXSW 2009 since I got back, and I’m still not sure I can do it. It was a much different week for me this year than it has been in the past, due I’m sure to all the personal …More »

Posted 28 Mar 2009 • 2 Comments

Par-tay

Had a great party at A & J’s— the pepperoni rolls were a hit, and it was great to see folks I haven’t seen forever. Also, it was dogtastic, which is never a bad thing.

Posted 12 Nov 2007 • What is Jangly Ganglia?

September 2

"Man, I freaking love you, Big Red gum. You taste like burning."

–katemonkey

September 1

"@hadashigirl @strangegrace My friend @andrea suggested that a were-penguin would regurgitate fish on to people. ;o)"

–msjen

"If every Adobe employee that bashes Apple actually fixes a bug in CS4, I wouldn't have to pay for CS5 to get that on quit crash fixed."

–gleyseele

Less Framework 2

Really nice looking mini-frame work that provides basic layouts for 2 screen sizes and vertical rhythm for text. This may be a great starting place for me.

http://lessframework.com/

"Generalized pronouncements about design grow more boring with each retweet."

–zeldman

"whatever comes let it come, whatever goes, let it go"

–petermurphyinfo

August 31

"When logging into My AT&T, the progress bar marches right to left. I find that surprisingly honest."

–meyerweb

August 30

http://thewildernessdowntown.com/ would have been really cool if there was enough Google Street View data of my hometown to make it work.

playing around with Wordpress for the first time. Pretty impressed with the admin ease of use, akshully.

taking preemptive sick day. thought it was finally cool enough to sit outside until i was attacked by a squadron of mosquitos. <3 the south