SlowDanceForever

Hey girl! Miss you (: Hope you have a great holiday!

Awww, congratulations!!
It looks real good too! Sorry about the late reply, don't come on here too much now haha xo

Hey girl! Look: I finally put up one of my div layouts. It's a big moment for me. I'm serious. After everything. Check it out :DD
http://www.whateverlife.c om/viewDocument.php?doc=15803


hee hee hee.

Well, if you 'do' ever go there, look me up there if you want:
http://www.whateverlife .com/Lana1

Funny, as soon as you submit something, it gets posted automatically (for now I guess) and people start downloading your creations. No more waiting for 1 or 2 months!ha ha:DD xoxo

This is a referral link from me (if you don't mind, and if you remember and happen to open an account):
http://www.whatever life.com/?idFriend=32115

My user name is Lana1

If you forget, don't sweat it, it's not a biggie. ha ha:D

Oh i'm definately going to be joining whateverlife then! :)

P.S. What's on Iconator that popped up on your screen is an advertiser there called "HUB". It's some bullsh*t ad for a family TV channel that keeps coming up now and then & you can click close. No, I wouldn't sen you somewhere that I knew had spam or malware or anything like that. No,no. ha ha:D

Hey there! Well congratulations on finishing! Wow, that was fast; I thought you just started! You must be in the excelled course! ha ha. I'm at Whateverlife.com now, and Iconator. And very, very happy. The sites look "great", are popular (Whateverlife is one of the top sites with a solid reputation), and they don't call what I submit "tacky" or tell me it took 2 minutes. You just put your stuff up (icons,avatars,layouts), if people like it they "use" it. Simple as that. ha ha:D

Ah it's no problem!
I should be able to get online now more, I've finished with my Education now - haha!
Although a job offer maybe coming along; hopefully anyway!
Hope you are well! :) xo

Hey,chica! Long time no talk! Glad all is well. Sorry that happened with Iconator. I never got any pop ups, but I'm on Google Chrome and I have some type of protection with this- a plug in I guess. ha ha!

Hey chick, sorry for the late reply.
I've not really had time to check on here recently, I checked out the iconator website but it gave me pop-ups so don't think I'll be becoming a member anytime soon! Haha.

Hope all is well with you :)

You've been designing graphics longer than I have so you probably already know about this site, but I just stumbled onto Iconator the other day. I'm going to join. It looks like fun. They only make icons I think.
P.S. How are you, little lady? xoxo

Hey, thanks so much! I just left you a graphic comment that I wanted to leave before but I was afraid I was bothering you with too many comments:[ I'm sorry my last comment was SO long. I get carried away & I need to stop it!

I don't know of any other place to go either but I'm going to investigate.

I really like that Twilight graphic!!!
I'm thinking of quitting CB & moving onto somewhere else, but I can't find anywhere!

The Twilight link isn't working on here. Just tried it. I'm PM'ing you with the link.

P.P.S WOW THAT WAS LONG! Excuse that, please. I'm a writer, so I can get carried away with the writing sometimes:\

I know what it is: You know, when Manny rejects my stuff (and a LOT of it is crap and 'should' be rejected. That's understandable), sometimes she'll tell me she doesn't like it, or that she can't imagine anyone using the graphic, ect. Once she told me to get back into my animation and said she really liked my animation. It made me feel like I wanted to 'improve' my animation skills (I've just started doing animation with my fist graphic-the Blood Typing graphic). Her words, whatever they may be, make me want to do better.

But when I hear from Christy, it makes me sit back and wonder why I'm doing this. It makes me sit back and wonder why I work for hours on various graphics only to wait a month to be told it was 'put together in 2 minutes'. I question my sanity after hearing from her. Am I 'sane'?? What's the pay off in this? To have my stuff on a website that people aren't really looking at anymore? How many people look at these graphics per day: 6? 7? Maybe 8 on a good day. I've been paying attention and watching to see how many views the graphics/layouts are getting on this site. O-O

Number 2 is that I really thought about what drew my personal attention to CB in the first place and it was layouts like the "toilet paper" layout I saw, the Allen Ginsberg, the far out stuff/ad-vanguard, artsy free-hand stuff I'd never seen on any other site. But I looked back over those layouts and they were all from '07,'08, and some from'09. Those artsy days are over IMO because I haven't seen ANY free-hand drawings on layouts like b4, or wacky, unusual stuff. It's just my opinion. Maybe I'm imagining things. I also don't think that even 'half' of those layouts would make it past the submissions process today because those layouts didn't have the 'brushes' and stuff on them...just free-hand. Do u kow what I mean?
Like this index card layout:
http://www.createblog .com/myspace-layouts/34893-not ecard/

Or Beat Generation:
http://www.create blog.com/blogger-layouts/36052 -howl/

Or check this one out! There is no way in hell this would be accepted today:
http://www.createblog. com/myspace-layouts/34575-good -girls-go-bad/

For me, those are more than just layouts...that's 'art'. Artistic expression explored through a 'layout' medium.

And finally: this is what we're getting into now. This is what CB has become:
http://www.createblog .com/myspace-layouts/36137-nic k-jonas_the-administration/


I know it's all a matter of opinion. And the Jonas layout is fine. It looks nice, professional...but it's not artsy. Just a regular layout u can find on 'any' site that makes layouts. Sorry I'm talking so much about this but the art in layouts excites me so much. But anyway, that's what I'm seeing more and more of: what you find on any other site, except that those other sites have more interesting layouts of Jonas.

I tried to do something different with Twilight. I really tried. This is the rejected graphic (because it was too busy):
http://i256.photobucke t.com/albums/hh185/moyez123/BE LLASBULLETINBOARDSCRAPBOOK.gif

Maybe it was (even though it's supposed to be a 'collage'). ha ha. It's not the best graphic, I know. Just trying to do something a bit different with Twilight. I'm not upset. But I won't spend anymore 'hours' trying to do things like that. Hey, if I'm going to be accused of putting things together in 'two minutes' then that's exactly what they're going to get from me: something put together in 2 minutes. They can reject it and no real skin off my nose because I won't have invested any real time in it. I have nothing to lose from submitting, but I'm not losing real time in this anymore. Just...a 'few minutes'. Ha ha ha. xoxo


P.S. Did you ever watch that film we talked about? Um...The Uninvited? xoxo

Oh I had that problem too, but I wouldn't remove any pending graphics or ask them to not submit them, because they could very well get through. I think because there's different Graphic Staff, each have different opinions and I guess a lot have very very high standards, which is probably why a lot of peoples stuff got rejected.

3 out of 10 got accepted out of mine, and I think they were 'okay' - the ones that got rejected.
I just don't think they were good enough to be on this site I guess, which is a bit upsetting knowing that your work isn't good enough but I guess that is why they are meant to write what to improve on.

Sometimes the reviewers are plainly unfair but when this happened to me once, I messaged the reviewer, but then she reported me for harrasment and she gave me '2 warnings' haha.
But, whatever, I'm sure a site will appreciate ALL of our work at some point! :)

Hi! I need to ask your opinion about something. It's about graphics and stuff. Listen, Christy & Tokyo-Rose reject everything I do. Jyoing (I don't kow how to spell her name) accepted one banner I did (The Vampire Diaries), and Manny-the-Dino is the one that 'approved' the 8 out of 9 graphics that I have under 'submissions'. If the others had been reviewing, I would have nothing at all under 'submissions'.

I did a Twilight banner that I felt was some of my best work, and an icon that I also felt was some of my best work and they were both rejected. I think if they didn't accept those items then they're not going to accept any of my other stuff either. Now, I have 17 graphics and 6 layouts pending, and I think all of them will be rejected. I had confidence before that 'some' of my stuff might have a chance but after today, if anyone other than Manny is reviewing , they will all be rejected. I'm 100% sure.

Anyway, my question is do you think I should just delete them? I feel confident all of them will be rejected anyway but at least I don't have to get any messages about it. What do you think? Hit me back?

Yeah?
Well if CB does get a new owner it could be such a breath of fresh air!
or it could go bust, and get shut down.

I think they need to be careful if they do decide to accept this '19 year old web designer' idea, as it could just be a scam & then no more CB...

Me,too:doing it mainly for myself. And it feels good:] I'm not going to 'keep' beating a dead horse but I'm just in AWWW of how dead this really 'is' o.O . I've been reading stuff from the forums -old and new- and an Admin here posted something, I think, about adding some new features or something. Makes no sense to worry about new features when the regular features need much attention. On the forums some guy who said he was 19 & a web designer, said he wanted to purchase CB. Said he had half a million dollars and wanted to 'make some changes' around here. He said CB hasn't been spruced up in two years. Like he said the layout hasn't been changed at all. the forums are an interesting place to learn on CB.

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