My New Best Friends
And there was great rejoicing.
I’ve just experienced something so wonderful, so amazing, I just had to tell you all.
But, first, a bit of backstory, as briefly as I can:
I have been told I can be, well…sort of on the particular side. Particularly when it comes to what I’m designing. And by ‘sort of’ what I mean is that when what I design isn’t perfect I turn into an insufferable homicidal maniac.
Which Cute Redhead loves hates.
And when I dreamed up the Waltzing In Perdition blog back in August I spent several weeks researching, designing, and redesigning way beyond the point of reason. And though I have it in me to learn the deeper level of coding the blog was calling for, I determined to do the unthinkable. That is, hand it off to the brake specialist. Meaning, I was going to
(sit down for this one)
let someone else work on the project for me.
Me. Todd Clary.
Was going to let a…mortal…touch my work. Dude.
And I did. I relinquished control of what I designed and handed it off to someone with more coding experience than myself. And it wasn’t easy. But I detailed it to a ridiculous degree precisely what I needed, how, when, why, and where. I even used the holy words: pixel-perfect. And what this means to the untrained is: “I want you to code EXACTLY what I’ve designed. And if one pixel is out of place (and I’ll know) I will hunt you down and make you rue the day of your birth. You know, in love.”
Here are a two of the ten pages of the layered design file with my notes on what I needed done:
See all those red boxes with my notes? (Matt—don’t even) That’s how specific I get when I’m showing what it is I need done. Some consider this over-the-top. I consider it business as usual. Besides, this is my blog we’re talking about, not some run-of-the-mill inconsequential silliness like my will.
And hired coder boy got the big 8 x 10 glossy. Or so he lied said. Because as it turns out, in Hired Coder Boyland, ‘pixel perfect’ means I Think This Way Is Better.
And, gentle readers, there is no quicker way to see Todd glorify (yes, glorify) into an artistic raging homicidal maniac than to take the pencil out of his hand and come up with something like I Think It Looks Better This Way.
So. Since September I’ve been living with the blog being what I’d call 94% There. And the morning I came down to get coffee (here I make the sign of the Cross), Cute Redhead, upon hearing me call it ’94% There’ said (bright-eyed, hopeful, happy, and believing) “Well! That’s pretty good! You can live with 94%! Right?”
I just looked at her and walked out of the room.
Flash forward to yesterday when I chanced looking for new expertise to tackle the remaining 6%.
And not only did I find the expertise, the experts at Waters Design in Georgia did the job in record time, on budget, and with nary a glance at what formerly hired coder boy had me thinking was impossible to pull off.
And so, the folks at Waters Design are my new best friends. Better still, I am hereby recommending them to anyone who needs WordPress theme coding help. Which I did.
But which I don’t anymore. Because it’s now 100% There.
(release the doves)
Right brain only, copious amounts of coffee AND ADD, oh yea, like this is a surprise.
So you’re saying I’m brilliant and completely justified, right?
Well its a fine line between that and Strung-out Half-wit, the “others” dont appreciate the nuance. It can be our secret.
See? See?? John gets me. *fist bump