That used to mean a fair amount of liquor and a little Bwow Chicka Bwow Wow but as I’ve mentioned before my wife is in Islamabad for 6 months so no Chicka till January.

Anyway, I got a call from an old associate yesterday about 2pm and she needed help because a graphic artist had created a rendering for their website but was several weeks behind in migrating the design over to the web and she was now 2 weeks past her deadline to her boss.  I really did not want to take on another website right now because a couple of the ones I maintain are requiring a lot of time and energy at the moment.  Plus, the kids usually start complaining when they don’t see anything but the back of my head for a week.  But I told her I would take a look at what she had and I’d let her know what I could do for her. 

Well, it turns out this guy is a print artist and I knew as soon as I saw the design why he had not converted it over.  It was a beautiful piece but there was hardly a straight line anywhere on it!  The web is not like print, everything really needs to fit in some kind of rectangle.  You can make circles and curves appear but it’s not the simplest thing you can do.  Anyway, I took one look and thought ‘much bigger than a bread basket’; they only have 6 pages but there are 2 different designs and to top it all off, it was created in InDesign, the one part of Adobe Creative Suite 3 that I don’t have at home and I’ve used it maybe twice at work.

The problem is, I saw this as a big challenge and I wanted to take it on.  Sooo, zip forward to 3:30 this morning (11 hours straight with one 30 minute break for supper with the kids) and I’m closing up shop with a completed recreated design and a fully-functional website.  Feel free to check it at www.bgcmotormadness.com.  One caveat though, I really hate the inner page design where there is a bottom graphic and the text within the page has to scroll internally.  If it were up to me, I would place the banner across the top and just let the text flow down naturally but I didn’t do the design and I didn’t think it appropriate to contact the lady at 1:45 this morning to debate the issue!

So this is the new hangover; pulling an all-nighter with my brain set to ‘full create’.  God bless you all, I think I’m going to start a load of laundry and take a nap.