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On vacation. Writing this from the past, you are reading this from the future.

I am leaving for my trip tomorrow and will be back on Sunday, though probably not updating until Monday. I guess it depends on when during the day I'm back. Right now I'm finishing up my Iliad assignment (hooray! one more quote!) and then will go to sleep. I'm really excited but unfortunately I didn't have time to write articles or make resources so I just did some quick "daily inspiration" posts so there's a post scheduled for each day with an inspirational link... basically like what our Twitter does.

I'll have limited internet access when I'm gone and of course I won't have photoshop (internet on an ipod.. yay ) so don't panic. Though six days is not much if you consider that I went like 4 months without updating this year. Heh.

I just finished writing a new article about best resources for starting a website. It's similar to the program downloads page but all the resources are completely free, with none that are only free trials. It's basically everything you need for starting a website.

And Marina and Rikki made new graphics, with a new background and 2 new scribbles.

I fixed the search engine, so now it opens in our site unlike the last one and actually displays the most relevant results first, unlike the default wordpress search.

Eek I only have two days left until I'm going on vacation. I'm going to *try* and write some posts ahead of time, but I also want to finish my last summer assignment, and that's going to take a while, especially with only two days. I have 10 more reflections to write, a movie to watch, and 72 pages left to read.

I made a new photorealistic tutorials list. And hopefully I will look into the small headers thing on Safari and Chrome before the end of today, but right now I have to go.

Also, next week I will be on vacation from Tuesday through Sunday, though I am going to try and write a couple posts ahead of time and schedule them to be published throughout next week (a nifty wordpress feature! - scheduling the publish date! ) so we're not just dead.

EDIT: The page titles are now fixed thanks to the power of CSS3.

The winner of the second contest and comment #10 is... Fiona! Congrats! Here website is Free Dream Graphics.

If you didn't enter contest #1 last time, I still have more happy neggs. So, just comment your neopets username. And Gina, your inventory is full.

There is also a new newsletter, which you can sign up for in the sidebar. It's just a quick weekly email with the latest updates (and sometimes info about upcoming, not-yet-released content) as well as design tips, inspiration, and sometimes exclusive resources or tutorials. (:

I made a new photoshop tutorial for a paint splatter glossy web 2.0 icon. I also have a set of web 2.0 icons that I just finished here.

And we're having a couple contests for the comments.

Contest #1

The first is for Neopets. I don't play anymore but I recently bought some happy neggs for someone for their contest but was never able to give them to that person, so if you want one just post your username. And if you're the person who never got the gifts I said I'd send you, please please comment and I'll give you a bunch. I think I have like 10.

And otherwise, I'm planning on making some more inspiration lists, so if you have a website that you'd like advertised, here's a contest for you:

Contest #2

• Just list links to 3 inspirational/amazing-looking sites in your comment that either have a mostly dark layout or a mostly light layout.
• The 10th commenter will win 3 tweets in our Twitter, plugs in 3 blog posts, and 3 days of being linked in the sidebar.
• Andddd you can comment as many times as you want, as long as each comment has 3 new, relevant links.

Good luck and have fun!

Marina made 4 new website signs. They're different phrases (exit, for you, about me, and welcome) so I decided to combine the graphics on the about me page and welcome signs page to make website signs.

I also wrote a blogging/website article about 15 websites to submit your tutorials to for increased traffic.

Today there are 3 new scribbles, 1 new about me banner, 1 new blinkie, and 1 new icon, all made by Rikki.

And our newest tutorial with the 3d abstract text effect was accepted by Good Tutorials. I'm so happy (:

One of our new staff members, Marina, has just started updating.
Today there are 4 new icons made by Rikki and Marina.

There is also a new set of house smileys, also made by Marina. I updated the web icons page a lot and changed the name to emoticons because it makes more sense.

I'm working on updating some of the old pages and improving their quality, like the now freshened up emoticon page. (: More updates later.

EDIT: I added a bunch of old graphics as well that were lying around in the image folder. Some of them were not transferred when we switched to wordpress, some were backgrounds of site layouts, some had their page deleted, etc. So there are 8 new cute pixels, 21 new blinkies, 10 backgrounds, 1 link back button, and 12 new site pixels. There are also now staff pages.