Currently, I am working on several different logos for different types of businesses. One of which is for an upcoming lingerie line. I have started to sketch out logo samples and I scanned some of the ones I was leaning towards in the below image.

Now, I will have to await feedback from the client to see which way they wish to go. You never know — they may hate them all We’ll see…

Update: Feedback from the client:
“They are all beautiful! My first choice is the one with the butterfly between allecher and couture. My second choice is the one right above it that just says allecher, and my third choice is the initials ac followed by allecher couture.”

Once in awhile I have this recurring thought about improving one’s personal life, but keeping work/business life the same (esp, if everyone converts.)

Everyone needs to work. Some less than others and some more than others. But, we ALL need extra personal time. Although, some crazy people like to use their personal time to work as well.

I am a workaholic. Really, I am. You can ask anyone that knows me well, they could tell you the same thing. But after years and years of sitting on my butt in front of the computer, I want to get detached from my machines. Don’t get me wrong now, I love what I do. It’s creative and challenging at the same time and pays pretty well pretty much.

SO, my thinking is (esp. since I work so much per day anyways):

Why couldn’t people have 4 work days and 3 weekend days? If people put 10 hours per work day, then those extra hours could take the place of one work day. Thus, creating a free day to be used however one sees fit.

I would gladly do the 10 hr days. Heck, I do them already. Can’t you just imagine having 4 work days AND the best part -> 3 WEEKEND DAYS. You can have longer vacations and more time to just goof off. I know some jobs have flex time already which is similar, but I am talking about everyone! If all businesses adapt to 4 workdays, then everyone could be happier!

The only drawback, I believe, is that this would have to be signed off by almost ALL industries. But, I may have to think about this issue a bit later since I haven’t had my chai latte fix yet.

What do you think?

As I am working on customizing the look-and-feel of this blog site (thanks to WordPress for some great work!), I came across a CSS problem. The problem involved using a “floating” div layer. In Figure 1 below, you can see that the floating blog text area div layer (box with blue-gray border) floats right over the main container (box with red border). The sidebar nav layer is not floating and causes the container div to extend down based on the height of the sidebar nav layer.

Now you can see how this causes a problem. The blog text div creates an empty gap where the background now displays (in the figures, the bg is light gray). Note: the problem was displaying in Firefox; it showed up correctly in IE 6. The problem should be addressed nevertheless. So always be sure to test your layouts in all browsers.

How do we fix this you ask? Well, Figure 2 shows how I used another div layer (displayed as a box w/ a green border) to push down the container div down to the correct height. The following style was used to create the “cleared” div layer.

.cleared {
clear:both;
height:1px;
overflow:hidden;
}

Since we want the new div layer to appear below the floating blog div layer, I applied the “clear” property. The clear property is used if you don’t want the next element to wrap around the floating objects. clear: left will clear left-floated elements, clear: right will clear right-floated elements and clear: both will clear both left and right floated elements.

I read somewhere that the overflow:hidden style must be used since IE refuses to automatically make div tags < 1em high (Standards Compatible mode. )

Update: One of my friends gave me a link to an easier way to accomplish this.
The link is http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html