I am proud to announce that the site re-design is up and running! 
Pink Tanpopo Designs was completely re-designed from ground up to build a cuter, sweeter and more accommodating web site! While I did have a certain place in my heart for my old design, I found it to be a bit limiting. Not only in my new design much cuter and more colorful, it is also much more functional. 
Like my last design, it is also
valid... well, at least the html is valid. The css is only 99% valid. I say 95% because the css3 calls are too new to be included in the validator. 
However, they are just a few atheistical aspects of the page (rounded corners, box shadows) that make it look really really nice. If you haven’t already done so, I really recommend you try this site with a newer browser such as the newest Google Chrome (the newest Safari, Opera and Firefox work well too).
If you are using Internet Explorer 7.0, then you should be aware that not only are you using a browser that not compliant to the standards, but it is full of bugs.
If you are using Internet Explorer 8.0, then you are running security risks to yourself and you could possibly be damaging other secure sites! 
So if you are using Internet Explorer, please stop potentially attacking my site and switch to a safer, faster and better webkit browser! 
The new version of Chrome is now my favorite browser (as I write this in Safari) because it it is really really fast. 
I have benchmarked all of my current browsers here for you to see. I would like to get some IE on this test just to show you how poorly it performs.
Back to the design!
I really hope you think my new design is really cute. I think the top page is a lot more functional, and the slide shows work well. The blog page and the galerie just look better with the new lacy backgrounds (I think the galerie makes my images look so much nicer too). I did remove the “freebees” from the main menu because I think that this is something I can use as a blog category in the future.
This gets to my final thing for today. While the new design is running, I still need to do the following:
1. add the RSS syndication links
2. make a “clients” page
3. make blog categories, archives etc.
with that I hope you enjoy my new site 
lots of bunny love 
Val
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/05 at 09:18 PM
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OK! I just now finished the basic re-design of my website… BUT i haven’t got the new design uploaded onto my server. I have to now upload the files and throw it all into the CMS and then do a billion different bug tests before it will be open.
MY current design is cute and pink, yes, and I will link back to it ... but the new designs features other pastels! Pink, Sax, Yellow and Mint (I am such a lolita geek)
So look forward to my new design opening withen the next few days! 
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 06/30 at 12:31 AM
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heheheh
guess what! I have decided to give my webpage here a little facelift! or should I say a bunny lift, because there will be many bunnies in my redesign
Anyway, the redesign is going great! Hopefully It will be done sometime really really really soon!
and I need to remember to sleep 
or the ninja bunny will get upset 
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 06/09 at 08:22 PM
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Ok, I think I finally solved my IE7 z-index bug which has been plaguing me since I started this site.
The problem was my logo, which had a higher z-index was appearing on top of every browser, except IE. Well, I had called the div inside my main body div… and that was causing the problem.
So I put the logo div on top, before the header, and it seems to have worked
I still think IE is evil, by the way
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 04/27 at 01:02 AM
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Ok It has been a while, mostly because I have just forgotten to write this blog!
I am also dealing with a lot of spammers here. So I have decided if you want to leave a message, that is fine… But if you leave an unrelated link, it will be removed. 
If you leave anything sexual in nature… seeing that I HATE sex, I will be extremely offended and I will post your IP and Email for other spambots to pick up and spam you.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/08 at 09:58 AM
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So I have decided to finally work on the front page of my site. It is, after all the most important page in a website!
I do what I always do, get out my sketchbook and draw out a bunch of ideas
The first idea was pretty good on paper, but when I got it into illustrator, I realized that it was not going to work at all 
So I went back to the drawing board and came up with this ribbon idea
after working on it, i realized that I made something that would be a pretty cute card for me! So I got it laid out
This is what I am playing around with
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 01/26 at 10:43 PM
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Ok, I now have some time to work on this site! yeah!!
Along with my work, I have been busy thinking about what to do with this site and blog . First of all, I finished one of the biggest parts of this site, the gallery
Now all I need to do is finish the contact page, attach the RSS and make the main page. I hope to have everything up and running soon.
I have decided that I am going to use this blog to really focus on cuteness and kawaii in general. I will put my own work in my gallery.
You can access it here or by the link at the top 
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 01/19 at 11:29 PM
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Here is a set of bunny smilies I made for http://www.myasianfashion.com
These smilies can be used for any non-commercial website freely, and any commercial website with my permission.
In lieu of payment, I ask that you make a small donation to the Love-A-Bun Rabbit Rescue.
You can download the file by clicking here.
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12/08 at 11:51 PM
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I will never forget my high school political science teacher, Mr. Bill Thompson. Mr. Thompson would always remind us hardworking students of the value of the KISS rule… Keep It Simple Stupid. Then, in college, one of my best professors, Dr. G., spent many years as a newspaper editor. He would often talk about the differences between media people and the “ivory tower.” The Ivory tower was where all the professors (especially english professors) shared their knowledge amongst themselves. You had to know a special set of jargon just to enter. Basically, it was overtly complicated.
I will have to agree with these two teachers of mine. Keeping things simple makes it more accessible, and makes the message more clear.
Unfortunately, recent web design has forgotten this rule. There are a lot of pages out there which are poorly designed, and with too much clutter. I think all the clutter (for example, ads by google, tag clouds, etc) really distracts from the message! I can understand why people would like all this information, but there is a point where it becomes information overload.
So what should we do?
Remember the KISS rule
Keep it simple stupid.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11/28 at 01:53 PM
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Ok, the other day I was going to work and I decided to pull out my sketch book and start drawing while standing on the bumpy train
Me, being the little lolita designer that I am, decided to draw macaroons.
So I scanned my chicken scratches in and opened up illustrator.
I still think it is absolutely amazing when your illustration comes alive! Now I really want to finish all 16 that i drew, but I thin 12 will be enough for a good design
here is #1
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11/14 at 12:22 AM
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Although it may be too early to tell, but I think Apple fixed a lot of the save/open bugs on their release of OS 10.6.2
I tested opening and saving files (in a variety of formats) in Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign without any crashes.
This is very welcome news for me, for now I can get back to making some much needed web-graphics.
So this is a welcome update for those of us who have spent the last two months praying that your file will save correctly…
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11/10 at 03:19 PM
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