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Readers Respond: You Know You're a Slave to Web Design When...

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Weird Dreams

When you wake up in the middle of the night to find that while you were asleep you were working on some layout you needed to make or havnt made before in your dreams.
—Guest layout addict

tags

When your brain assigns tags to everyday conversations.
—Guest finder_error

No daylight

You haven't left the house for three days except to walk to the mailbox!
—mek113

outings

You decide to stay home and design one more template than go out drinking with your friends...
—Guest romigrey

Holiday Slave!

Your parents came for Christmas and you barely looked up from your project in time to see them open their presents!!
—Guest Rachael Kvapil

The Birds Start Chirping

It's bed time, but you need to do just one more "tweak" in the CSS, and the next thing you notice is the birds are singing and the sun is coming up!
—Guest Dave Vermont

Where'd the day go?

...you wake at dawn, start editing and the next thing you know, the sun is setting... Where did the day go?
—bluarcher

Sad Slave!

. . . you think of five clever tweaks between five and six in the morning and then forget them all by eight-thiry.
—Guest MarathonMan801

you're late retrieving your kids

Sometimes I get so involved in a project that I lose total track of time and am late retrieving my kids from school. I try to justify it because one of the sites I maintain is the school's site.
—Guest mar c

Gaze At Curtains

when you gaze at other people's printed curtains thinking they can serve well as a design's background !
—Guest Romouz

Can't Sleep

....when you can't sleep because you are always thinking of a way to improve a website. Or you are redesigning ones in your head.
—Guest SpoiledBacon.com

You're late for church on Christmas Eve

You're late for church on Christmas Eve, because you need just a few more minutes to determine the correct fix for a particular problem you're having.
—Guest ScottGoldbach

code dreams

...when you dream about CSS code and the first thing that pops into your head when you wake up is an idea for a new website. (That happens to me on a regular basis..and sometimes my code-dreams are so exhausting that I'm tired all day ;-) )
—Maine_iac

you dream in code

You wake up way earlier than normal because of the code running in your head, solving the issues and re-laying out all the floating divs to work to your advantage.
—Guest versak

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You Know You're a Slave to Web Design When...

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