nice pants, yo!

your pants + heels combo is too cooooool for school! :D hey, nice bag!

I’m just about to start a blog and I’d love any advice or tips on what not to do. I do read a heckuva lot of them and man, I hate those music players too (I mean, I would think that everyone has iTunes playing in the background, no?) so that’s a given.

I love your blog, especially the DIYing and all your gorgeous shoes. Thanks!

P.S. Bitchiness is charming, or at least that’s what I tell myself.

green is your color!
and your bag looks soooo good! what a good idea.
you are truly so clever. i think you should start selling your creations and ideas!

God, I hate the music players…..I’m so loving the green on you!

Totally agree, I dislike people forcing their musical taste on me…even though I am reading their blogs..there has to be a line somewhere ;)

ahh I don’t even know where I stored all of my old sticker pictures! (secretly they are all locked up in my chamber of secrets… those photos cannot resurface and be publicized lol!!)

p.s. your hair is SO LONG.

I have those shoes!!!

I so agree with you on the music-thing in blogs, makes me puke. Really love the bag.

i think i know what you mean…
for me, gossip girl box set till 2:30 in the morning and bitch karma the next day. not a good mix…

i hope you don’t self destruct. we’d miss you too much!

Oh, love reading your blog, you have like the perfect sence of humor. Btw. the green trousers are incredible and they fits you very good. Like the contrast between the green and the black-white stripes on your tee!

Love the outfit!
Me likey your blog :D

haaaaaaa I HATE automatic music playerrrs.
They always make me jump. Even if I’m listening to something else. AARG
Your hair is really lovely.
I want long hair so bad! Mine just makes me cry everyday haha

surprisingly, I am a big fan of green trousers. and a little bit of snarkiness is good for everyone.

ps. i did dabble in a bit of tibetan buddhism…but i’m just too materialistic

hah, i have contemplated writing about the music player on my twitter. its especially annoying when you’re playing your own music and then another plays over the top. usually i just get fed up and exit.
if you have any tips for my layout, please do say :)
nice trousers aswell, they have similar ones in purple in topshop that i love dearly.
mxx

I hate visiting blogs that plays auto music I just pause it or just move on to another blog.
Great outfit for today!!!!

i really love the pants and scarf (: nice combination !
love, victoria

I would love if you posted some blogdesign stuff! I’m dying for it (I’m completely incompetent when it comes to design).

Oh, and now I need green pants. Thanks =P

don´t mind the bitching. I hate those music players as well, I mean it´s just irritating when you´re already listening to music and suddenly there is this irritating noise of which you can´t figure out the origin. blah.

I love your look again, especially the shoes, I´m coming to the point where I´m delighted to see footwear that´s not black.
but you should really cut your nails, girl.
just kidding. ;)

xxx
I

wow I love your green pants and yes I Hate people autoplaying music on their blogs.

I know what you mean about the automatic music! what is the deal with that, huh?! And it’s a pain to go looking for it, pause it and then only to have it play on the next page again! But enough of that! I’m loving the green pants! i was just about to give up on mine until I saw your post. Pure inspiration, I’m loving it!!

“The maximum width of a blog must be 1024pixels. This means with a sidebar size of, let’s say, 250px – image width should not go over ~750 px.”

NO!!
There is no maximum width. There is just no sense in that.

Point is to use percents instead, which is the correct way.

I’ve been using 1920 or 2560 pixels wide screens for years – and even larger ones with virtual desktops spanning several monitors.

I really HATE pages/blogs designed for just one predetermined width, which is ALWAYS small. It wastes real estate on my screen, but if authers would use percents instead, everything would be much better.

“Also, if you have a chance, view your blog from a smaller monitor”

Hello? You can resize the browser window.
Enable your browser or window manager to show the dimensions when resizing so you don’t have to guess.

“Asking your visitors to click on every image to enlarge is a huge imposition”

Is NOT.
Always make images as large as possible but also allow users to click on each one to open it in full size as they please.
Using full page width for images is just fine – actually you don’t have to care about that. Just insert the images as a list, not a table or separated by page breaks so the browser shows them side-by-side and flowing down when it hits the maximum width in resolution.
OR use javascript to autoscale images – downside is that user needs to have javascript enabled (most do..) and the result image could be fuzzy on smaller screens.

“Automatic Background Music ”

Well that would be dumb, but usually it also requires javascript to function – which sadly most normal users don’t turn off by default.

“The comfortable number of words across a screen is..”

.. whatever the user/reader wants it to be. Don’t be the judge on how your content is to be consumed, just provide it and let people use their own taste.

“If your paragraphs expand across the whole screen”

See? I WANT text to flow from left to right, cover my whole screen or two, sometimes three.

“to remind you to put yourself into the reader’s shoes”

Put yourself in my shoes – or ask proof from other expert users instead of casual web navigators.

ok – I LOVE the green pants. LOVEEEE.

Absolute perfection! The green pants are a delightful surprise and I love the way your standing, shoes and black tights and all. Love it :)