We’re going to a cookie exchange party, so we baked lots of surgar and peanutbutter holiday cookies!

Our Favs are:

• #7: that G-Bread man got hit in the head by a peanut butter cup flining ninja!
• #8: just simple and classic
• #13: cute star!
• #14: She was going for height! be sure to check out #19 :)
• #15: Yeah Baby!
• #19: of course, this one is our top pick :)

I just got this quote at the top of my GMail:

Blaise Pascal - “Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.”

Shouldn’t that be two things that start with T and A?

~Danny

DeviantArt has something called pasties that let you display a few random images from your deviantart gallery.  I’m thinking about working them into the site.

Here’s an example:

Wait a minute! I can’t show 3 random images from *my* account? They are just 3 completely random images from all of deviant art?! On further inspection, you have to subscribe for $30/yr to get the functionality of creating pasties that only select images from your account.

For the record, I pay $60/yr for my website (+$8 for ‘dannyburbol.com’ domain name)… so paying deviant art $30 a year seems ridiculous.

Well, I guess I’ll be pulling all my images from devianart and merging them into the site. Now I need to find some good software for displaying images and allowing comments, and rss feeds, etc…

oh wait, wordpress does all that. :) so now I just have to find a quick way to import all my deviant art entries.

~Danny

Well, wordpress has a one button import for all my blogspot blogs… very cool.

I just tried on this librio, but it clips a lot of my images…

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/librio

I’ll have to look around for a nice quick theme since I don’t have a lot of time to make my own…

~Danny

About every 2 years I do a site cleansing.  It usually amounts to me saying:

At the same time, it gives me a moment to address usability and accessibility issues.

A few Goals this time around:

• Consolidate: I have 3 blogs, 4 or 5 rss feeds.  I’d like to join all the blogs together under this new wordpress blog and only update 1 location with 1 rss feed.
• Update more often: with wordpress I can update any time from anywhere with a web connection.  Since it’s so easy to update, I’ll update more often.
• Lessons Learned: I’m going to start putting more tutorials and lessons learned on the site because that stuff is useful to me and others.  Also I’m going to start using more desktop recording software.
• OMG I<3Flash: and I’m going to be using more of it (mostly for games).

Lots to do,
~Danny

PS: here’s the previous version of the site, let me know if you have any suggestions.

http://www.dannyburbol.com/main/index.php

(This post was Rescued from the last version of the dannyburbol.com website.)

Here’s the current state of things. I’m no longer employed, I’m self-employed and making websites for a living. It’s a rocky start but it’s getting close to covering all my bills. Hopefully in another month or two it will actually cover my bills (because my savings is getting dangerously low these days.) So if you know anyone who needs some website work done, please send them my way. (Thanks)

As far as *this* website goes…

At the moment, All the comic books in the menu to the left are completed projects. This includes Juvenile Drivel (yes, books 6 is the last Juvenile Drivel for now). People don’t buy them for the amazing artwork, they buy them because they are well written and enjoyable to read (at least, that’s what they tell me :).

My comic books are available as print-on-demand through comixpress.com (I also have some in stock if you’d like to get a signed copy directly from me, just contact me.) As much as I’d like to give them away, I can’t. So enjoy previewing them online, but remember, only half of each book is online. To get it all, you’ll have to buy a copy (and I thank you for doing so).

Enjoy!
~Danny

Current Works In Progress

Comics, etc:

• The Vacation Journal, titled: You had me at ‘Croissant’, (updated on Sundays)
• My Comic Journal (blog in comic form, updated whenever I can)
• My Art Notes (blog all about sharing knowledge/experience, updated whenever I can)
• Blonde Shelly, my creative commons experiment (still hammering out the details.)

Flash Games, etc:

• There’s a new Games Section of the site that I have not gotten a chance to add to the menu yet.
• I just finished making a flash tetris clone
• I’m working on a Flash Game Tutorial Series. So far I have:
  • Lesson 1: Intro to Flash/ActionScript3 & AppScreens
  • (coming soon) Lesson 2: Drawing Blocks & Keyboard Input
  • (coming soon) Lesson 3: Blocks Game Board and Pieces
  • (coming soon) Lesson 4: Getting it all working together like a game
  • (coming soon) Lesson 5: Adding Sound FX
  • (coming soon) Lesson 6: Using Text Fields (Scoring, etc)

This Website:

• this website is old, it’s a pale example of what I’m capable these days, therefore, I’m embarrassed by it. I’m planning a re-launch just as soon as my web design work covers the bills *and* leaves me with enough time to redo this site.

And now, life in fast forward with half postcards for a day.

I’m not giving up on getting this journal caught up to present time. Instead I’ve decided to alter the format. It’s better to make two entries per postcard than it is to give up on the project altogether. My OCD may be rolling in it’s grave, but rather than sticking with the same format that’s getting me behind, I’m going to adopt a “whatever works” philosophy. Some days may be postcard size, some days may be full pages (like the Blonde Shelly pages), but I’m not giving up without a fight!

I hope it’s fun to read… I mean, my life isn’t really all that entertaining, but I hope my edited and caricatured life is. :)