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Tomato Branch screenshot, August 2010

This site needed a new design desperately. Unfortunately I was having a bit of a designer's block. Usually I've done very simple and even minimalistic designs for my own sites, but this time I didn't want it to be all white and plain and boring. The only problem was with the inspiration. It just seemed to be gone... There's more, read all »

3 replies | August 30, 2010 - 00:52 |

Designer's dilemma

Lets imagine a web designer. She has a website, which includes blog, general info and contact form. The plan is to include a little portfolio too. The web designer is good at her job. She has been creating web sites since she was a teen and that was over 10 years ago. She knows CSS and can do some pretty neat tricks with it. She is a bit of a perfectionist. Mostly about her own work. She wants to feel pride about what she does and doesn't like to leave things half done. There's more, read all »

1 reply | August 27, 2010 - 14:47 |

Describe me in three adjectives

As you can see, at the moment there's a free Drupal theme on this site. And because of that, it doesn't tell much about me or my mad web skillz. Cause I do have mad web skillz. The main reason why I haven't done a personal theme (or layout) yet, is the lack of inspiration.

Lets do something about it. As said the site right now doesn't tell much of me. Looks like a little operation self branding could turn out to be useful. Part of this idea of self branding is a game. Game I'd want to give a try and would be very happy if you participated on.

So here's what I'd like YOU to do: Describe me, Mervi Emilia Eskelinen, in three (3) adjectives*. No more, no less. No explanation needed and honesty is great. You can be friend, family member or even a complete stranger. Anyone's input is greatly appreciated and no-one will be judged.

* In Finnish or English preferably.

8 replies | August 21, 2010 - 19:28 |

Give the password

In time to time there's a need for generating random passwords. And there's lots of tools, apps and services to do that and they all have lots of different features. Since sometimes I need this sort of tool I created one here on Helmikuu.net. It's quick, it's simple and it generates up to five passwords in time. So if you happen to need a password generator, by all means try the Random password generator.

And while you are there, why don't you give us a shout on the guestbook!

0 replies | August 14, 2010 - 16:43 |

Fix this

Maintaining a website sounds like an easy job. Especially if the job is to just copy and paste the texts someone else has written or to upload the pictures someone else has taken. Yes, it sounds like an easy job, but really it's not just mindless copy pasting. Usually the photos or texts need some work to be done on them before they can be posted on the website. Sometimes it's hard to understand what the person sending the texts or photos really want to be done with them. Or sometimes the requests are made in a way it's hard to tell if the person behind them has been really busy or if they are being rude and condescending.

I'm not saying the job should be all easy. But if it's not the webmaster's work to be a copywriter and a mindreader, adding or updating a text or a couple of photos shouldn't be extremely hard either. There are some ways to make it just a little easier and make sure there's less errors to be fixed and less emails being sent before that text or those photos finally make their way to the site.

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0 replies | June 3, 2010 - 03:13 |

Hello, my name is Mervi!

I’m a Digital Craftswoman, geek, cat person, dreamer, awesome, always right and quite boring. This is the tasselflower blog about web design, social media, life, marketing and business. Have some tea!

Mervi Emilia