Welcome to the new look of the chicken blog.

And check out the numbers in the headline. On the right, the maximum number of possible points we could make on our project in HTML class. On the left, the number of points I got on mine.

That's not a typo. Our instructor told us that we could get 180 points for meeting minimum requirements, with 200 as the top end. But then he said that in the past he had given as many as 225 points for sites that really went the extra mile. I told myself right then that I was going to get more than 200 points.

So here's the redesign. The only caveat here is that I do not consider myself to be much in the way of a graphic designer. While design and consistency were a part of the grade, a lot of it was for proper use of HTML and CSS.

Next up - a CSS-based redesign of my main site, complete with proper HTML coding (what you see now is based on what I taught myself by looking at other people's code - I didn't know about things like nesting and self-closing tags and all of that, so the HTML is a wretched mess).

In chicken news, I found the two runaways that were to have been culled. One was hiding during the day, then would come in and hide in a nest box at night. The other was in a far corner of the barn, where it has been hiding out and regrowing feathers. I also found a bonus - the secret cache where the hens have been laying. There were eight eggs there.

So now to keep them locked up in the morning and early afternoon until they get the hang of laying in the coop again.