Happy New Year!

Wishing all the best to you for 2006!

Wishing for lasting peace and harmony among us all.

Wishing for a better world in which our children and all following generations can live.

Minor Corrections

I just noticed three bad Blue Vinyl Fonts links on the resources page and corrected them. I also corrected some info and link to Paint Shop Pro -- it's now at Corel and now in version 10 instead of 9.

You'll now be able to go to the correct pages. My apologies for the inconvenience of sending you to the wrong places earlier.

Holiday Wishes

Since I will be visiting family for an assortment of things including a niece's birthday and my brother flying in for the holidays, I want to wish all of you now a merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah, both falling on the 25th this year. And since I don't think I'll be near a computer on the 26th either, happy Kwanzaa and Boxing Day for those who celebrate or observe those holidays.

Me, I've been bad by not releasing any sets yet. Winter just started yesterday so I think I still have time to put out another wintry set. If not, then look forward to something for spring.

2006 will be more busy for me because I need to take an outside job to support my hobbies and other household expenses. Bye, bye jeans. Time to put on a business dress for those interviews!

Visitor 7500!

Another milestone reached today before noon PST. Happened sooner than I thought it would but how nice it did.

Visitor number 7500 hails from Nicaragua and surfs using a computer with Windows XP and IE 6. This visitor was using Google to find butterfly wallpaper. Unfortunately, all I have is the Butterfly Nebula wallpaper, so this visitor didn't stay long.

Thank you, anyway, for stopping in.

Snowflake Font

Around this time a lot of people search for snowflake dingbat fonts and how to use them. While I don't offer fonts at this time, I can point you to places where you can find those fonts.

P22 is a commercial font foundry. They offer a lot of cool fonts to buy. If you subscribe to their newsletter (and what fontaholic wouldn't?), you sometimes get free, limited use fonts. Their snowflake font was one offered awhile ago to us subscribers, but you can still download it on this page. Consider buying one or more of their cool, reasonably-priced fonts as well.

Chank! is another commercial font foundry that offers free fonts from their on-site and guest designers. A free dingbat by Spunk called Spunkflakes is your key to snowflake font heaven. Available in Mac and Windows formats. Consider buying for cheap, Chankflakes or FriskyFlakes (really cheap!), both available as Mac or Windows versions. Snowflake dingbats are also available in an open type package of multiple fonts for only $49 on their site.

Aenigma Fonts offers a PC only free dingbat font called Faux Snow. Click on View to see one example or on CS to see the whole character set. Clicking the name opens the download window. Another possibility is the font, 90 Stars, which actually look like five-pointed snowflakes to me. Check out the character set first.

You can also find a servicable snowflake (one style only) in the Microsoft Wingdings using capital T. It's not the prettiest snowflake but it has the requisite six-sides. I created a background tile using this font that you are free to download to use on your computer's desktop or a web page. Go to my patterned tiles page at http://www.arride.com/ptiles5.html to view and download this graphic.

How to use:

After you download the font, open the file into your fonts folder in your computer's hard drive. In Windows navigate to your control panel then open the Fonts folder. Once inside, click on Install font then navigate to your downloaded font. Be sure you've unpacked the font from its zip file first or else you won't see it to install it.

Most PCs using Windows will have a built-in paint program called Paint (duh) and you can use that to create a snowflake from the selected font. However, it is not a sophisticated enough program to create one as a transparent background .gif usable on different colored web pages nor with layers on another graphic such as a photo.

For that I suggest looking at some of the graphics software listed on my resources page. I might add that Paint Shop Pro is perfect for this purpose.

If you want to use snowflakes in a text document such as a letter, you won't have to worry about any of the above. Just use the dingbat like you're using a different font by changing the font selection in your document. However, keep in mind that unless your recipient also has the same font in their computer, they will not see the snowflake in the document as is. In order for the recipient to see a snowflake, the snowflake has to be added to the document as an image. A printout of the document from YOUR computer will have the snowflake, of course. This caveat is true of web pages also.

Those are just a few of the places to find snowflake fonts and use them. You can find more by searching in your favorite search engine or directory using the words, "font dingbat snowflakes."

(edited 11/27/2007 to add disclaimer in paragraph 9, on 11/28/2007 to add another font in paragraph 4, and on 12/14/2007 to add the link to a snowflake graphic)

A Change in Resources Page

Matthew Petty finally closed down his font site, Disturbed Fonts. All of his fonts are now in the public domain. I offer a download of his "Trash" font for both PC and Mac but you can also find this font and a few others at DaFont. I've changed the resources page to reflect the new status.

I managed to download all of the fonts he offered before he closed his site. I'm not sure what to do with them now, but I may open a font archive in the future that includes his fonts. A new web site will take more effort on my part and my life is changing in ways unanticipated a year ago. So, time will tell.

Down, Down, Down...

My web host reported a network outage at the datacenter on Dec. 11th as did my three site uptime monitors. One of them also reported an outage on Dec. 12th. Both outages lasted about one hour. No reasons given by the host.

Hmmm, Downtime Ag'in

This is getting old, folks. Downtime late Tuesday evening until early Wednesday morning for about an hour. Got a question turned into my host to find out what's going on, but I doubt I'll hear anything pertinent. Maybe the server is going kaput or there's too many sites hosted on it. Wouldn't doubt either.

Still trying to decide what set or next graphic to release. Busy month for me inside and outside of Internet. Hang in there!

Downtime Early Saturday

In the wee hours of Saturday morning, Dec. 4, the site experienced downtime of about one hour. Reported by all three of my site monitoring tools.

Downtime Yesterday

For a couple of hours in the morning the server my site is hosted on was down. My host notified me by e-mail and I received notices from three monitoring services around the world. No worries.

I've worked on a new snowflake set but haven't released it yet. It's a little different from the ones I already offer. But I'm not too happy with it, so it needs to be re-worked. Look for it next month.

I don't know about you, but I'm already looking forward to spring. lol

Gloomy winter weather just isn't for me.

Short Downtime

On Thursday the 17th, there was a short downtime of less than one hour. I know that my web host was doing maintenance on a server -- not the one my site is on -- but they may have been testing all servers. Not a big deal.

7000th Visitor!

In just over a month I've recorded my 7000th visitor to the site from 6500 last month.

He or she actually stopped by on the 11th, Veterans Day here in the U.S., in the afternoon. They did not stay long or else they had some software blocking Sitemeter's cookie from tracking their activity. They did view at least one page, the top edge backgrounds.

Like many of my visitors, this person uses a PC with Windows, XP in this case, and surfs with Internet Explorer 6.0 on this occasion.

That's all the details I'm giving out. Thank you, whoever you are, for visiting.

Passwords Required Now

In recent months I've noticed evidence of some of my pages and graphics being loaded from the hard drives of people's computers. While I don't mind people copying the pages of the backgrounds and sets to duplicate the layouts, you really need to remove my stuff such as my Sitemeter coding. I don't know what else you're copying, so I can only assume you're direct-linking to my graphics as well.

For that reason, I've enabled password-protected directories for both the backgrounds and sets. You will now have to enter the username and password I've provided in order to view those pages and graphics.

This is a problem almost all of the graphics designers I know on the 'Net have encountered. It is very discouraging to provide graphics for free and to have people steal bandwidth by hotlinking to them. Many of us do not use free web hosting providers. Even if we did, bandwidth is severely limited and we get into trouble by them shutting down our sites temporarily, even permanently, if we exceed the bandwidth provided to us. If you use free hosts, you know what the situation is like. It isn't that different with paid shared hosting either.

In addition to password-protecting directories, I am blocking IP addresses of visitors suspected of hotlinking. Unfortunately, that means that anyone else using that shared IP address, if it is shared, will also be blocked from my site.

These actions are necessary to protect my interests as outlined in my Terms of Use, section 7. If you have any questions or comments regarding any of the above, please go to my Contact page and fill out the e-mailer form. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

New Side Border Background

Made more jack o' lantern backgrounds for you, this time with side border graphics.

Hope you enjoy these, ghouls and gals. :-)

Link to side border backgrounds page.

Another Sunday Downtime

Looks like very early Sunday morning PDT there was just over an hour of downtime, one hour and seven minutes to be exact.

C'est la vie.

Visitor Number 6,500

The 6500th visitor to Arride Graphics comes from the San Francisco Bay Area and was using Google to find myspace graphics. Didn't stay long, though. This visitor actually stopped by on October 4th, so I'm really late in reporting this.

Speaking of myspace graphics or "my space graphics," as most of you are using, it's nice that you're looking through search engines to find graphics for your site at myspace.com. But remember that A LOT of graphics are copyrighted and unless it specifically states that the graphics you see on a web page is up for grabs, such as on a free graphics site or even a member graphics site, do not take any to use on your webpage. If you do and are caught, you can lose your myspace account and worse. I'm very sure their terms of service (TOS) or terms of use (TOU) policy states that any graphics or photos you put on your page is guaranteed by you to be your property or that you are legally allowed, in writing, to use them. Otherwise, use your own photos or scan some drawings you've done and use them. Of course, that means that someone can come by and grab your stuff from your page. :- /

New Side Border Background!

Boy, can I feel the crispness of fall right now. I've had to turn on the heater in the house today. Good-bye summer...

Hello autumn! I whipped up a background with autumn leaves gracing the left side border on a white background. All of the details are on the page.

Autumn Leaves side border background.

Side border backgrounds page
Top border backgrounds page

Downtime

There was less than one hour of downtime to Arride Graphics on Sunday beginning around 1:20 p.m. PDT. But this is the second time in a week.

Site Downtime

On Sunday, October 2nd, there was approximately one hour of downtime with the site around quarter after 7 in the evening PDT.

New Top Border Background for Halloween!

Hey! Just uploaded a new top border background graphic for you.

This time, instead of the smiling skeletons from last year, you can decorate your pages with this sinister, grinning jack o' lantern created with picture tubes from Jasc/ Corel. The graphic is 3000 pixels long, so you have plenty of room to put content. Ideally, though, don't put so much stuff on one page because it's tedious to scroll down really long pages.

Anyway, have fun with this!

Here's the link: http://www.arride.com/downloads/backgrounds/jol.html

Other top border backgrounds

Some Comments

1) I've had to block an IP address at the server level because I thought the person was hotlinking to some of my graphics. Now that I think about it, the person may have just been copying the sample page's HTML and didn't delete my counter/stat provider code on his or her page. That would explain why pages from their computer were setting off my counter and showing up on my logs.

Please, when you copy HTML from my sample pages, delete or replace everything that is my content including the SiteMeter JavaScript and any irrelevant META tag descriptions and keywords.

2) A lot of my visitors are looking for "my space graphics" and I'm curious. I'm not sure if these visitors are newbies at web page building and using search engines, thus are using unclear search terms, or are looking for graphics for use at their myspace.com site. If the former, then using "web page graphics" or "web site graphics" is more closer to what they're looking for. If the latter, then those search terms make more sense, although using the terms I mentioned earlier would be better.

In any case, welcome to Arride Graphics! I hope you can find what you're looking for.

3) As for new things, I've been pretty busy this past summer with stuff outside of making graphics for you - going to ball games, buying a house with the hubby, my parents' birthdays, etc. So although I have a few sets started, I haven't finished a lot of them. They will be coming, since a lot of the activity is over with as of yesterday. October will begin anew.

But, no, my new site graphics is not one of those. I think I'll just go with the graphics I used previous to this one - recycle, you know. The graphics I was going to use will have to wait until next spring.

Can you believe three-fourths of the year is over, almost?

New Background!

Just uploaded a new background!

It's a side border decorated with school lunch boxes, just like what we used to bring to school if Mom didn't use a brown paper bag or any paper bag (somehow I remember my mom using a grocery bag a few times -- kind of made lunch look huge!)

Anyway, school's started for almost all kids now, so here's a background to use on their (or your) personal web pages. Have fun with it!

Click this: http://www.arride.com/downloads/backgrounds/btslb.html

Disabled Comment Field

Ya know, it's always one bugger that causes difficulty for everyone else.

I got my first annoying spammer in the comments the other day. Since it was my first occurrence, I had to figure out how to delete the spam. That proved to be such a hassle because I had to deal with my browsers and firewalls in order to do that. So rather than go through the gyrations again, I disabled the comment field. Oh well. It always takes just one little bugger to spoil the whole crate.

Outage

Phooey! Just over a month without an outage and here we go again. This time it lasted just over an hour around noon PDT. Overall, though, uptime is around 99-98%.

Mea Culpa!

Whoops! I just found out that I made all the mini-tiles inaccessible to everyone due to some mouse disabling script I had on the page. I hadn't realized the error until I tried to right-click to save a tile and I couldn't. No one let me know....you can tell me about my mistakes without feeling bad or thinking you'd make me feel bad - I will, but that's okay. I'd rather fix my mistakes sooner rather than later. I found a slight design error last night on one of the side backgrounds that I really like and fixed it also.

If you have any questions, remarks, or anything else, please do not hesitate to write them down on the form on the Contact page.

As always, thank you for visiting Arride Graphics and thanks for reading this blog.

6000th Visitor

On September 3rd Arride Graphics received its 6000th visitor! It was only June 19th that we saw visitor number 5000. We are gradually getting more and more visitors to the web site.

Factoids about visitor #6000:

• Uses a computer with Win2K and IE 6
• Is on the west coast of the U.S.
• Used Yahoo's search directory
• Was looking for unique linkware and apparently found this wedding graphics set
• Has good taste :-)

Check out the web page graphics sets for yourself. Not in the market for graphics for a web site? Then look at the selection of desktop wallpapers for your computer. There are three pages right now and more to be added in the future. See to the right on the above page for the links to the other two pages of desktop wallpapers.

Just Checkin' In

I've been back from vacation awhile now and busy catching up to things. Fortunately, there wasn't any downtime during the past two weeks or so. That's good.

I'm working on new graphics for my web site, but I'm having a heck of a time coming up with something I really like. Seems I do a better job on making graphics for you and my other sites. Anyway, I've got an idea for a new background so I'll work on that instead. Look for it next month, which is coming pretty soon, eh?

Site Downtime

It's been awhile, but the site was down last night for about an hour. Only one of the services reported this outage.

New Space-Themed Desktop Wallpapers!

Before I take off on vacation I wanted to finish and upload these two new desktop wallpapers for you. Both wallpapers feature the Earth, one is in natural color of two views of the planet and the other shows the entire planet at night with all the city lights aglow.

"The Blue Marble" shows our beautiful planet as maybe a visitor from afar or an astronaut would see it. Seeing our planet this way makes our lives seem so small in comparison. You can't see all the living things populating Earth. There are no apparent political boundaries. There are just the blues of the oceans and the seas, the browns and greens of the land, and the whites of the polar regions. How can you not love this planet and want to preserve it? That is the feeling that most astronauts and cosmonauts experience while "up there" in space looking back on Earth.

"Night Lights" shows by inference the inhabitants of this planet. All of the cities around the world that light up the night sky appear in this image. The lights are beacons to industrialized areas of this planet. What does it say about us?

Both new wallpapers in three sizes are on the third page. Click the link of the size you want and a new window opens. Depending on your connection speed and the wallpaper you select, please wait a minute or more for the image to load, then follow the instructions on the page.

Images are from visibleearth.nasa.gov and put together by me using Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 and the fonts Nasalization by Ray Larabie and Trebuchet MS.

New Border Backgrounds!

Okay, so I didn't upload these yesterday as I thought I would, but they're here now.

We've got four new border backgrounds - two side borders and two top borders - all with the beach as their main theme. The side borders have beach balls or colorful, sunny-colored starfish on sandy backgrounds. The top borders have beach balls or pink starfish and seaweed on sandy backgrounds. I've included two bonus transparent .gifs to use for spacing in the table cells that do not contain text or graphic content.

You can set up your pages as I did with tables or you can use CSS for the layout. Check out the Resources page (page bottom) for help on using CSS.

Woo-hoo! Time to hit the beaches and get sun-burnt. Not really. But have a wonderful time this summer and come back with photos and great stories to tell on your web site using one of these backgrounds on your pages. And don't forget to credit me and put a link back to Arride Graphics.

Vacation Time

My husband and I are taking some time off this month to veg in the tropics and maybe get a little tanned. So despite my optimistic prognostication to the contrary, I may not be updating the web site this month. When I go on vacation it's not a working one -- I try very hard not to access my e-mail either. When you're an internet junkie, staying away from a net-connected computer is very hard to do, but you have to do it somehow.

I've got a couple of vacation-related side border backgrounds to upload as soon as I get the pages made, so look for those this week, maybe even tomorrow!

New Stuff!

Phew! Finally made my deadline for uploading new graphics.

First, I've got a new header web page set for you. Created using a fantastic closeup photo of an orangy flower (I don't know my flowers well) by Ariadna at MorgueFile.com. Comes with the header graphic, a blank one and a pre-printed one with "Welcome" on it, three different background tiles and my matching link button. Pretty minimal, graphics-wise, but that's how the header sets are. And there are two slightly similar desktop wallpapers to match the web set! I've got the brighter one on my desktop right now -- made it before I even thought about creating the web set or the wallpapers for you. But I liked the photo so much I just had to make something from it for you.

Plus three space-themed desktop wallpapers in three sizes: 800x600, 1024x768 and 1152x864 that are not like any of the others I've made for you.

Check these all out!

The whole site change will have to come a little later this year; hopefully before the middle of next month, otherwise we'll be into autumn already. Can you believe it?

Finally, I accidentally uploaded a new-old page that had links going nowhere. I've fixed it so that it works now. Oops! I'll be able to upload that new page again after I've completed the other pages that page links to.

Site Down Again

7/28/2005 Here we go again. At approximately 4:55 a.m. PDT my site was down due to network problems at the datacenter where my server is located. My site was back up about two-and-a-half to three hours later. I hope the problem at the datacenter is resolved to prevent re-occurrence.

Site Down Times

It looks like, after a week or so of continuous uptime, there was an unscheduled outage on Monday for anywhere from 20 minutes to one hour. Then again this morning for about an hour. Both instances happened around the same time in the a.m. PDT. I don't know what to make of it as I didn't get a notice about my server being down.

Anyway, it's up now.

New Link Buttons

Just uploaded new link buttons in two-color combinations. Now you have more to choose from to link back to my web site.

As always though, you can choose to use a text link instead.

See the new link buttons here at http://www.arride.com/linkbtns.html

Site Down

Site is down as of 8:02 a.m. PDT (GMT -8).

Back up again when checked at 8:33 a.m.

Site Down 6/27/2005

6/28/2005 Site was down for about one hour beginning at approximately 10:45 p.m. PDT yesterday. Of course I didn't notice it because I was watching a summer repeat of a "Medium" episode that I hadn't seen yet.

New Site Layout & Graphics Coming

I told an online friend the other day that I was getting tired of the green graphics on my web site. It was for spring, after all. Now that's it's summer, I want some cool blues.

Rummaging through the graphics I made for future use, I found one that I was going to use for a set for you guys. But I'm using it for my site instead. :D And I've changed the layout, including the navigation with a cool script custom-created online at Tigra. This is one resource I need to add to my page for you guys. It is so super cool!

The new pages will probably be coming next week or next month sometime. I hope you'll like the changes.

As to more graphics for you, I'm going to make a lot more solid color tiles for you folks who've been visiting my site looking for them. I'm amazed at the demand.

So far -- knock on wood -- no outages to report.

5000th Visitor!

I missed this milestone because it was Father's Day and I was out of town visiting my dear ol' dad.

On Sunday, June 19, Arride Graphics saw visitor number 5000. I can't know the full details of this visitor (see my privacy policy), but I know that he or she uses Cox.net in the Eastern time zone of the U.S. (or Canada, if Cox is there), uses a computer with Microsoft XP and surfs using Internet Explorer 6.0. This person was looking for linkware sets through Google and landed on my Fees page.

I printed out the stats page for posterity.

Anyway, I wanted to note that occasion today.

Site Down

Site reported down at 12:00 p.m. CDT and up at 12:21 p.m. CDT. However, when I tried to access my site at about 12:54 p.m. CDT/ 10:54 a.m. PDT, it still appeared to be down. Checked again at 10:58 a.m. PDT and it is up.

Site Down

At approximately 10:59 PDT this morning, the site was down or inaccessible. As of 11:16 a.m. when I checked, it's back up.

Newest Pieces for Download

Just uploaded five new solid color background tiles on page 5.

I've split the color tiles page into five pages for faster loading time. The single page was getting too large. Most of the colors are in the reddish area and one I call "Sprucey" is a little bluish-green.

If you want solid color tiles that are not in the ordinary 256 bit color range but in the millions of colors range, you'll find them here. Be aware, though, not everyone surfs the web in millions of colors, so some of the colors will be rendered pretty darned ugly on their monitors.

Site Down

An unscheduled outage occurred on Monday, June 6th for under one hour beginning at 2:39 PM CDT and again this morning at 8:35 PDT. The site is up as of 9:05 PDT when I checked.

That's Odd

I noticed something odd going on June 1-June 2. There were a lot of you coming to one particular web page on Arride Graphics: the Carina Nebula desktop wallpaper. And all of you were using MSN image search to do it. There were over 100 of you visiting the one page over that 24 hour period. Was there a scavenger hunt going on???

Thanks for all the hits, guys, but it would have been nice if you'd viewed the other parts of my site, too.

Hey, I had a great weekend watching my A's win against the Toronto Blue Jays. Yesterday the forecast was supposed to be cool but the sun was bright and I got a little sunburned on my arms. That won't stop me from making more graphics, though. This month my weekends are full with baseball games to attend and other stuff to do. But I'll try hard to get another set out and maybe a few more trinkets, too.

No outages to report.

New Set!

I uploaded a new linkware webpage set today, Set 143 Beach & Sky Kaleidoscope. It's the third set using frames with peaceful and serene colors. The navigation uses JavaScript rollovers, but you can use just the "off" buttons for non-scripted menu links or plain text links instead. All of the graphics and the rollover menu script are zipped together for your convenience. It can be purchased for a semi-exclusive license fee which will remove it from circulation (downloads).

Also, as I mentioned previously, I'm now offering downloads of PC and Mac versions of the font, "Trash," by Disturbed Type on the Resources page. Matt Petty, for whatever reasons, is quitting his web site and has his domain name up for sale. All of his fonts are now in the public domain.

My baseball team won their game yesterday in the 11th inning and stopped, at least temporarily, their losing streak. Can't be a fair-weather fan, now can we? The fireworks after the game was spectacular, too!

The Hardest Part...

In creating a web page set is finding the right font. I spent the better part of the afternoon looking at a few font archive sites and a type foundry for the font to use with a frames set I want to release before the end of the month. I found a few and downloaded a lot, but I'm not sure which one to use yet.

You want the font you choose to convey the mood or the theme of the set. Deciding whether or not it should be a script or serif or sans serif or even a grungy font takes me awhile. Sometimes a set will "tell" me what the font should be; sometimes not. Sometimes I look at tons of fonts before deciding on one. The one thing I don't have installed on my computer is a type manager. It's software that will show the fonts I have using a sample of the font so that I can compare them.

Well, I got tired of looking at fonts so I headed over to one of my favorite games site and wasted away the rest of the afternoon. So much for working on the set.

When I get the set uploaded or maybe even before then, there will be another downloadable font on my site. It seems that Disturbed Type will be closing its site sometime soon and the creator, Matt Petty, is offering his fonts as public domain. What that means is I can now offer his fonts for download myself. His fonts have always been usable for personal or commercial projects, but it was free linkware. It's a shame he's taking down his shingle. Another original foundry bites the dust.

The font I'll offer for download is "Trash" and it's available in both PC TTF (.zip file) and for the Mac (.hqx file). "Trash" is used on the double border set, "Devon Rocks." Look for the font download on the Resources page soon.

Previously Posted News

May 12, 2005 - Just uploaded two new top edge background graphics, one with sunflowers on green basketweave border and the other is a pastel plaid border. I've also created a new tutorial on using the top edge backgrounds in frames to keep the border statically-placed on top of the page. You'll find the link to that on the top border graphics blurb.

Welcome to A.G.'s Blog!

I'm trying out this blog at Blogspot for now, but may change it to my server if I get any negative feedback about this host or if I feel like not hosting it there any more. My reservations are with the bar at the top of this blog. I had a negative experience with it going to a family-unfriendly blog. I have no control over which blog appears if you press the "next blog" button, so be forewarned. If I hosted this blog myself, there will be no Blogger bar and no surprise visits to an x-rated site.

So anyway, getting back to my site the site status will be published off-site as well as here. I'll also use this to post the latest news about the site and talk a little more about the new graphics I put up. I may also use this to just chat about anything else related to graphics, fonts, and webpage building. Sounds good? I hope so.

Like my other two blogs, I may not post consistently. I'm not too keen on putting myself on a strict schedule. I let the muse hit me first, so my postings may be spaced out by days or even a week.

So there you go. Another place on my site to visit. If you feel like posting comments, you can do so without being a Blogspot or Blogger member. I do appreciate feedback, even negative ones, but I hope they're mostly positive.

Thanks for checking out my graphics!