the site

the girl. the site. the art.

Here’s the gist of this blog: I go places and eat food and take photos and draw pictures, and then I proceed to talk about the places I go, the food I eat, the photos I take, and the pictures I draw. If that’s your cuppa, then cheers!

For the past seven years, I’ve usually had some form of a personal website/blog floating around the Internet. I owned a few domains and hosted sites prior to this one, but I ended up switching to LiveJournal around 2005, where I continued to blog and post art on the sly. Two years later, I missed having my own domain, so I registered cindypepper.com as an attempt to stake some claim in this world, starting with this blog right here.

credits

The site is hosted at xfluro and powered by Wordpress. I use the following plugins for my site:

• Akismet (v. 2.2.7) by Matt Mullenweg.
• Contact Form 7 (v. 2.2) by Takayuki Miyoshi.
• Forgot the Category (v. 0.2.1) by Dan Coulter.
• Lightbox 2 (v. 2.8.2) by Rupert Morris.
• Plugins list (v. 1.0) by Davide Benini.
• Twitter for Wordpress (v. 1.9.7) by Ricardo González.
• Wordpress Thread Comment (v. 1.4.9.4) by 偶爱偶家.
• WP-Footnotes (v. 3.3) by Simon Elvery.
• WP-PageNavi (v. 2.61) by Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan.
• WP Render Blogroll Links (v. 2.0.0) by Tanin Ehrami.

featured

• CSSbake
• CSS Creme
• Dr. Web (“40 Kreative Blogdesigns”)
• QNT
• rev.iew.me (1) (2)
• Smashing Magazine (“Desktop Wallpaper Calendars – May 2010″)
• StumbleUpon
• We Love WP

history

edition: III
name: Subaquatic
duration: March 2010 – present
fonts: Bebas, IM Fell Great Primer, Arial (main text)
description: I was inspired by Alexander McQueen’s S/S 2010 collection, especially the prints and the use of a muted palette paired with brighter colors. I wanted to design something a bit more graceful and elegant than my previous designs. I scanned one of my sketches, colored it in Photoshop, and layered it atop a marble texture that I had modified. The layout also featured several hand-drawn graphics of mine, including the sidebar images and the social media buttons.

edition: II
name: Wanderer
duration: March 2009 – March 2010
fonts: Palatino (the text in the graphic was hand-drawn)
description: I have such an explicable soft spot for this layout. I remember wanting to do a layout that could be interpreted as an overarching image, so I designed it to look like a girl wandering through the forest. The sidebar column was made to look like a tree in the forest, and I used a couple Photoshop illustrations throughout the site. Unlike my previous work, this design was very footer-heavy, which was a refreshing change.

edition: I
name: Afloat
duration: January 2009 – March 2009
fonts: Georgia (the text in the graphic was hand-drawn)
description: I went for a cutesy look for this layout, which in hindsight probably wasn’t the best idea. I got sick of it pretty quickly. If anything, designing and coding the layout helped beef up my coding skills. After all, they were getting a little bit rusty…