Yahoo! I finally got the new layout done. I may do a bit more tweaking to the overall design eventually but I’m done for now. I spent a lot of time trying to get the CSS right. I’m not sure if the CSS validates, haven’t checked it out yet, but the pages are XHTML valid. It was tricky and I found myself completely over my head with the navigation bar and getting the background image to repeat down the whole length when there wasn’t any content in the content field. In other words, the right menu grew off the white background image, gurrrr! It was very frustrating. The CSS min-height property worked in Firefox but not in stupid IE. Fortunately I found a work-around for stupid IE but not until I had almost given up on the whole layout.
Getting the navigation bar where it is currently located was a nightmare and it’s not exactly where I’d like it to be but it’s good enough for now. It servers its purpose. I haven’t written anything about myself yet, so the About Me link is not working. Actually, it does work but it just sends you back to the front page. And I want to work on the archive script so that it will show the categories by default. I just haven’t had time to research it.
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and great New Year’s celebration. I was sick in bead for the New Year. I’m hoping that isn’t a sign of what the new year will bring.
Wow. I am impressed. It looks great and as usual I don’t understand any of the letters, but thats okay…..some of us are just a little slower. Get well and stay well.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Maria. Not to worry about the letters. You don’t need to know what they mean, unless you are going to take up web design in your near future.
Unique web page, but I wonder about the color of the woman’s eyes, blue and such a blue they are too. The face of the wolf seems familiar as well. I think the eyes could have been green.
Hi, Minerva. Thanks for stopping by and commenting. Yes, the eyes could have been green but the lack of contrast between the foliage and the eyes would not have been so compelling or as symbolic. I know you understand the symbolism of this image, perhaps even better than I do.
My comments were made initially from a memory of how I think your eyes might look, green on some occasions and sometimes, hazel with flecks of burnt amber dancing at the edges. Later, as I was pondering on the picture, letting the color of her eyes soak in I thought about a meditation I had once and knew the deeper reason for wanting the eyes to be green. The wolf’s eye and face come out so clear as not to be missed as something hidden away but jumping out of the greenery into conscienceness. The individual can’t see because the focus is looking outward to the objects in front, the wolf’a view is outward but from behind the woman, so is aware of the woman’s thoughts at a deeper level. In my mediation, I found myself drifting into a lush green glade, a giant oak had dug it’s roots in and around large gray boulders defining the edge of a blue water pool where a small water fall was emptying itself. It was an idyllic setting, all covered in shades of green. I gazed across the pond and became mermerized by the bark of the tree, seeing the deep cracks and curves of each scaly crust, being lured to look deeper until finally my eyes were caught and held in one location. I leaned forward, straining further to see what had held my attention because in truth the bark looked no different there then any other place on the tree. I was captured and couldn’t look away for what seemed a time that could not be measured and finally it came to me. I saw it or rather knew that something was looking at me at intently as I was looking at it. A pair of eyes in a face so well hidden in the surface of the bark. I jumped back as if I was burned, my heart racing and pounding loudly in my ears. It held my gaze steadily while I tried to calm myself, afterall it was my meditaion, so who else could be in charge. It was so startling to me to realize someone else was in my mediation regardless of it’s origins and to know it was seeing me as clearly as I was seeing them. To be seen and to know you are seen was such a moment that it defies explanation. It is a knowing without words. So, the eyes in the photo are for me and would be akin to seeing myself hidden but looking outward to see if someone was looking at me. The soul wanting to be seen but is hidden by it’s surroundings in such a manner as to be obscured from the careless observer. Minerva
Interesting perceptions, Minerva. I think I remember that meditation, perhaps I was even there. Time is so fleeting and my memory has faded but for those tiny moments that brought meaning to my wondering soul. Those times are felt more than the mind remembers.
I like how you unraveled the symbolism of the image and your experience of it. I didn’t give much thought to what it might symbolize while creating it but when I added the information about it I realized there was an unconscious desire to tell myself something. Or perhaps the image is just for you and my way of saying thank you. I don’t know but I do know that I love everything about the image.