Hey everybody, 
I am just letting you know that I am all right after the Japan earthquake.  So far I am safe, but I am worried about the Nuclear reactor just north of me. 
As for some strange news regarding this, almost all my work in Japan has stopped.  So I am unable to make any money except through design.  I guess this makes me a full time designer.
In the mean time. I am going to try to stay safe and warm.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/16 at 06:25 PM

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I have just finished upgrading my site to Expression Engine 2.0!  It is nice to have a freelancer license so that I can now legally use this site to hopefully get me some more recognition out there.  Of course there are some little things which I need to get working again.  For example I need to fix the smilies…

And I need to learn a whole new control panel.  I hope that I can learn this new cms quickly!  I will let you know what I think once I finish playing around with it a bit!

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/03 at 01:30 AM

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Hey everybody!

I have an announcement to make!  My company’s first product, Huggy Hearts, has been released on Facebook!
Huggy Hearts is a facebook app where you can create original cards and send them to your friends.  There are a variety of stickers and backgrounds you can choose to decorite your cards!  It is really cute! 

I made most of the stickers, and my friend Skinniwini made the UI

Please click here to check it out

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 02/28 at 03:51 PM

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Hey everybody!!  Well I have exciting news!

My bunnies and I got a new job doing what we love most, making CUTE pictures

We have signed on with a start up company making graphics for apps!  It is perhaps the BEST job I could ever ask for, because I get to work while laying down on the floor and drinking coffee!

Unfortunately I am going to be super busy, so it is going to be hard for me to find time to make some personal projects.  I will also be too busy to work with other clients too :(  But once things get going I may find time to continue bringing you my cute art work!!

I will let you know my company once we release our first product!!

In the mean time, Ninja Bunny and I have to work in the graphic factory, pumping out graphics!!!

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 01/20 at 05:40 PM

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I hope everybody is having a wonderfully productive new year!!  I must say that 2011 has been AWESOME to me so far! 

So Awesome, I have decided to take a 100 day challenge.  I will be making 100 projects within the first 100 days of 2011!! 

I am doing this to learn to PUSH myself, and take my productivity to levels it has never been!!

I am making advertisements, illustrations, graphics, web pages, and basically anything.  100 in 100 days!!

Well, we are 5 days into the year, and I have already finished 7 projects.  Lucky number 7 being this cute little background for my MAF page

of course, if you like it, you can use it yourself! 

I will show you the cute ones here. 

But for now, I need to make a webpage!!

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 01/05 at 07:34 AM

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Since I got a license of expression engine 2.1 (well coming Jan 10th) I will be officially be able to use this page for commercial purpose. 
I have been running it on the 1.6 core, as I have been working with registered version for a client…well it is messy.  Lets just say everything will be clean and legal

The software is great, and I strongly believe you need to pay people for the work they do. 

Anyway, I will be able to “open shop” for business (and not just play, ok still play) and hopefully attract more clients to this site.  So I have opened up my “clients” pages. 

You can view them in the gallery or from the front page.

I also got a cute famicon made for my site!  Cute, no?

 

 

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 01/01 at 06:04 PM

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Well it is December 31st, and 2010 is winding down,  in fact, there are only a few more hours left until new years!

2010 brought a lot.  I did a lot of work (including the redesign of this web page) but most importantly I found a dream and started to make it happen

Granted I didn’t do nearly as much design work as I wanted to do in 2010

BUT 2011 will start off with a bang!!

There are some things just waiting to open early in the year!!  So just wait, and thing will start off great!

best of all, 2011 is the YEAR OF THE BUNNY

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12/31 at 08:06 PM

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Oh i loved this!!

yes, I believe that design should come from one’s own heart

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12/16 at 12:30 AM

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The design I did for Totalmente Diva is up. 

Totalmente Diva is a small store selling kawaii hand made jewelry in Brazil.  The artist, Adélia, is an amazing person! Not only does she make cute, sweet jewelry, but she is a prominent representative of Japanese fashion in Brazil. 

Also, she is a professional figure skater!

I just designed her front page, and I am still need to get her store and blog into the design.  But overall I am pleased with it.  I think the design really fits her personality!!

Also, she made this amazing banner with the logo I created for her!

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12/09 at 12:48 PM

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Hi!  Well things are getting better!

I guess I have good news,  I am FINALLY going to have some client sites up soon

I have three sites on the burner now, almost ready to be be done!  A 4th site is done, but I am waiting for confirmation from my client….

So I am finally getting stared!

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12/06 at 02:19 PM

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At least I am not the only one who thinks pull down menus are bad!!

I read this great article about web design today….
check it out

While I admit I am guilty of some of these sins, I agree with what it has to say! 

So lets follow the KISS rule and keep our menus nice and simple

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11/14 at 12:57 AM

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I went ahead and added lightbox to this site   So you can now view some of my gallery images in a higher resolution

Not all of my images are in high res, mostly just the landscape images, but I do have a few of the portrait images up!

So go back to my gallery and enjoy!!

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11/13 at 10:04 PM

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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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