For everything you've done, and everything you may yet do! I don't know if you realize that I might have fizzled out on deviantART if you hadn't come along and helped me out with the club. Now that I don't feel [so] guilty about owing the club time, I actually have ideas and can bring them to life, rather than getting bogged down by regrets.

For those of my readers who don't know what I'm talking about, *Silverayn is my co-admin over at *DaydreamersRealm. I had been fading out, and then she offered to help out. We're going strong, and she's absolutely wonderful. She's taken over all the busy work, and she still has time to talk with me about contest ideas and suchlike. If I'm not feeling guilty about owing the club time anymore, I may owe her some very soon.

She's got some great work to show off, by the time she's been on dA as long as I have she'll have a huge gallery. Her photography is well composed (not to mention her adorable kids), her photomanipulation is well done - she's got an especially great eye for color - and her poetry is very moving, whether she's given it a visual representation or not.

Not to mention her tag line is "Whimsical in the brainpan". How could we not get along?

Thanks, Chimene. I really appreciate it more than I can say in a little journal feature. Being able to create, even on the tiny scale of designing a club contest, means a lot to me.

I've been enjoying work with programming. I've been in a graduate-level (I'm insane, I know) web design course since September, and we're at the point where we've sorta covered PHP, MySQL, and JS, and my next project is Ajax and RSS. (I say sorta because we do a lot of work on our own as needed. Ergo, I do a LOT of work on my own. Previously I'm self-taught.)

I've been trying to create a way for someone with no web design experience to update a web page by logging in. It'll probably be my final project for class, but I've started now, and I started with an RSS feed for *DaydreamersRealm... because I can. DeviantART supports RSS feeds for journals and favorites (and profiles?) but journals with any formatting at all come out like hell (you might imagine that CSS gets shot). And favorites are one at a time, with images... while I could heavily filter the feeds (and I might use the favorites one eventually) it's just easier to post separately.

If you care... I set up an RSS Page on my website that displays the feeds and the feed addresses... so people could read the feeds without a reader. Or just go look without bothering to actually subscribe to the random feed. It's set up just like any other RSS feed, so it should be readable by any reader. (Note: should. If you see otherwise, let me know.)

For anyone interested in advanced web design, if you want to laugh at my horrible first project, it's here. It has to be password protected, since we're not supposed to show the code to anyone who might take the class later (for plagiarism issues), but you all can look at it. The username is 'da' for you guys, just ask me for the password and I'll note you back. Kinda ridiculous, but what can I do. Once my second project is graded, I'll add the same user/password to that so you can see that... it's MUCH better than the first project.

If you happen to be someone who might ever take the course I'm in and I don't know it, please don't do something stupid like save my code. I have a rather distinctive style and the professor will definitely notice. I'm happy to help anyone who wants help with web design (my HTML/XHTML, CSS, XML, & PHP are good, MySQL and JS are less good so far) but if you copy my code and get me in trouble for it I'll add your eyes to my marble collection. Savvy?