April 2004 Archives

I was saved a ride home in the rain today by a flat tire -- my bike tire obviously lost pressure over the course of the day. As did I, for that matter. Oof, not a fan of this dull grey weather, nice Easter weekend notwithstanding. This is why I don't live in Vancouver anymore....

I changed the font from Verdana to Trebuchet. Just for the change from Verdana, which I see a lot of in my corporate web client life. It's taken a while to figure out that I have to clear the cache on IE for the Mac, or the changes don't appear to take. A dull extra step in the process.

But it's always nicer to be able to blame the technology rather than yourself when something isn't working. This is why we need more technology involved in relationships; we could just blame it rather than admitting, say, a fear of commitment.

The good news is that Kid Brother is going gangbusters, in two days Carol sold enough to pay for the booth fees, so now the goal is to try and pay off as much of the booth construction as possible too. As for the guy who built the booth and the website, well his terms may be more onerous, heh heh... ahem.

But she's already discovering the black art that is retail; there just seems to be no rhyme or reason to things selling or not. On the first day she sold a bunch of the Blue Move shirts, then on day 2 it was all Bowling shirts and tee shirts. She lower the price of the jacket from $65 to $59 -- less than 10% -- and immediately sold three. The only constant seems to be the silk screened stuff, which is fun and probably the most unique. But it does make one realize the stress planners for the Gap must be under, when they put out a new shirt in quantities of millions only to see them languish on the shelf (markdown city) or sell out in a week (if only we'd made more!). Not that I'm feeling sorry for The Gap, mind.

So I've been poking around this whole blog thing delicately, God forbid I should just plow through the user's manual, and changed the font from Palatino to Verdana and some of the background colour. Yup, I'm a CSS god. Send your questions, kids.

Well Carol's boy's clothing line Kid Brother launched yesterday at the Spring One of a Kind and all is going swimmingly I gather. I'm beat. Totally beat. I didn't work any harder than Carol -- in fact, less hard for sure -- but I don't get to take part in the heady delight of seeing folks hand over their cash. And that's an important part of any artistic endeavour if you ask me. Of course, that's probably I work in a world once referred to as "commercial" art.

The site, built by right brained idiot me, is here

Funny how when you build a site yourself, all the process you so strictly enforce with your clients goes straight out the window. "You are your own worst client." Constructive feedback always welcome. Maybe ignored, but certainly welcome.