Bye-Bye Blogger

This blog has moved! Most of you won't be able to tell, but a few of you might. Please revisit http://www.barbiedreamhearse.com, update your RSS feeds, admire the categorization of posts, water the plants, and pat yourself on the back for being a part of an itty bitty feminist movement with a giant V8 engine under the hood!

The Decals Are On!

Jody did a great job on my rear door decals, and they got all kinds of exposure as I drove from Kirkland to West Seattle in rush hour traffic to run an errand.

I decided to leave the sides alone for now. Enough people have convinced me that I don't want to junk it up like a race car, and I don't have any concrete design ideas at the moment. The fact that it's a big white hearse makes it stand out on its own.

I've spent the last few days cruising to different Seattle locales. One of the places I hate to drive most happens to be my current neighborhood. I rarely park on the street here since I have an expensive garage space, but last night I found myself trying to parallel park on 1st Avenue in front of Le Pichet with a bunch of people hollering, gesturing, and otherwise distracting me. I know you think you're helping, but I have a backup camera... so back the hell up and let me park.

Also, to the striped shirt wearing douche in the black Mercedes who cut me off at the Seneca exit on I-5 only to get back on the highway, thus negating any reason for being in my lane in the first place, I'm shaking a tiny fist at you too!

Addendum: The picture requests were almost instantaneous, so here's one of the back of the car, even though the light is hitting it wrong and it looks like crap. And here's one of Lola, the little dog that hangs out at the shop.

Please Design a Website for Me

With pie charts. For free.

Apparently 27b/6 has gone the way of the dodo (the above link is a mirror of the referenced meme), but the BDH is still around and this blog is no longer cutting the mustard as an online presence. I need a prettier, more effective marketing website, and I've known I would for about a year.

I suppose I was suffering from delusions of grandeur thinking I would be able to put something together myself. While I can create basic websites that function and provide information, I can't draw or otherwise create graphics to save my life, so I need to enlist some outside help.

In addition, three people who know what they're talking about recommended Wordpress independently of each other, and I'm considering moving everything over there (still using barbiedreamhearse.com as the domain name). Blogger is going to stop supporting updates via FTP, which is what I like to use for backup and other purposes. The other purposes mostly pertain to my little custom blog, PlatKat.com, with which the BDH site shares an account. Since the BDH blog's template is solely within Blogger, I thought switching to Blogger's publishing method would be easy enough. Sadly, the WWW-dot in front of the site name is too much for Blogger (and/or iPower) to handle as things stand. I must humbly admit I'm not sure how to fix this in the short term, despite some of the good efforts made by friends.

In short, it's going to take some time. Like the BDH herself, marketing the BDH is going to be a work-in-progress for longer than I could have guessed. Web help is always appreciated, and if anyone has a crystal ball handy, it looks like I could use that too.