Old news: in-laws on the Web

By Todd Stadler · Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:46am

Let's pretend that I use this blog to keep you updated on the daily — or, at least, weekly? monthly? — events in my life. What's happened lately, you ask?

Well, Julia's sister Kimb got married to a nice drummer named Joel. Never can go wrong marrying drummers, I always say. (Dear random Web acquaintance, did you know I'm a drummer? No? Please don't make me explain all my little in-jokes. It totally kills my flow.)

Julia and I had a good time visiting Houston, seeing both her and my parents, and, as always, having some tasty food. Not to mention getting to wear t-shirts in February, one of the few months when weather in Houston is reasonable.

But I know that you come to this blog for the hard-hitting Todd-centric news. I hear you cry, "All this fluff about your in-laws is nice, but what's the 'Todd' angle?"

Well, I made Joel and Kimb's wedding Web site. (I have now made wedding Web sites for all of the Melton sisters, though, yes, one of them is my wife.)

Their friend Erin had designed a cool invitation featuring the birds, skyline, and the wedding's brown-and-red color scheme.

There wasn't a lot of content to put on the site, so I used it as an excuse to play with animation that would otherwise probably be rather annoying.

I was going to make the birds a bit more interactive, such that they flew in the first time you visited and then only stirred if you moused over them. However, Kimb liked the birds flying in every time, and I needed to finish the site before they sent out the invitations, so it is what you see.

Anyhow, it was nice to be able to hone my skills on a small, fun site.

But frankly, at this point, I'm more excited for Kimb and Joel and their new life together.