This evening I went for a short walk in the neighbourhood. I didn’t want to go inside when I got back sooner than expected, so I admired some clouds and decided to take photos.
You know you’re a nerd when you rejoice over your victory over Internet Explorer’s quirks and antics. You also know you’re a nerd when you put “DAHAHA! I have conquered Internet Explorer’s antics!!!” in your MSN name even though only 3 other people (out of, um, 70) will actually understand what you mean.
Actually, I still have a couple odd things to fix… but I’m pretty damn happy of some of my discoveries tonight. You’ll see on my main page when it’s launched that each section has an underlined title nestled above the text box. It was a pixel too low in IE compared to Safari, so I thought, hmm, since type varies across both, what can I change? Line height. I made it the same px height as my text, nudged the positioning back down a bit, and VOILA! Poyfect! My satisfaction is knowing I figured it out all on my own. That is the reward for any frustration in this game and one reason I like it so much… it feels REALLY GOOD when it WORKS!!!
We recently acquired some fish and all the trimmings. Last week Wednesday we visited the Vancouver Aquarium as neither of us had been there in quite some years. I took a ton of photos (135 to be precise), with some intended for desktop wallpaper and artistic endeavours.
Flash, no flash. What a difference in depth!
I didn’t have a chance to do multiple self-portraits for the Self-portrait Marathon, but here is my last-minute contribution. Some things apparently need fixing, but oh well… two eyes staring into a mirror give three different points of view…
In high school we were told the stats for acquiring jobs; how little help the newspaper gives and how important networking is. So I’m turning to networking in addition to online ads to see if I can find myself some more work.
Here’s a little rundown of what I do.
I design websites from the ground up, working with clients and responding to feedback. I also know my way around cPanel site management in which I set up and configure email addresses, newsletters, and databases for things like phpBB forums and Movable Type (which I am also learning); plus the usual things like site statistics and subdomains.
I have been designing and building websites for 7 and a half years and am extremely skilled in XHTML and CSS. Now that I have learned what XHTML 1.0 Strict standards entail, I plan to fix in future designs the minor things that keep me in Transitional. Designing for cross-platform considerations is something I’ve become quite adept with. I’ve also learned to be quite sensitive to my audience’s potential visual needs: good contrast for reading and navigating especially for those with compromised vision, larger type OR the ability to increase type (hopefully without damaging the design) for the same reason, and relationships between foreground (text) and background (image) to optimize readability.
The ability for users to navigate easily and always know where they are is a priority, in addition to the role of a website’s consistency in ensuring users know they’re still at the same site.
I also do graphic design for print. My past formats have been posters, brochures, cards, gallery invitations, booklets, books, and CD covers.
For any project I can: design, photograph, draw, illustrate, write, and re-design.
In addition to basic Flash sites, I have done some animation projects in Flash, where I enjoy illustrating. Video is not one of my strongest skills but it can be done.
The programs I am experienced with are:
– Adobe CS (2): Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, ImageReady. I have used GoLive only as an editing tool for Perl scripts.
– Flash MX and Dreamweaver MX. No, I do not use Fireworks. Yes, I have used Flash 8.
– GarageBand, iMovie, iPhoto. Pretty easy.
– Transmit FTP but anything’s easy to learn.
– Any word processing, web browsing, and emailing program.
The languages in which I am fluent are:
– XHTML
– CSS
– English (no spelling, grammatical, or typographical errors, please!)
– Music
The languages which I know quite well are:
– JavaScript
– ActionScript
– French
The languages I have some (read: minimal) understanding of are:
– PHP
– German
I am a Mac whiz with quick hands and quick fingers.
I’m available immediately for anything as long as it’s not illegal, pornographic, or within an unreasonable distance or time difference. That said, I don’t have a laptop (yet) and do work from home, but I can work at your design studio (*ahem* wishful thinking?) provided I can get there in a reasonable commute and all necessary programs are provided, on a MAC. I can work on PC, but I’d rather not.
Please do take a look at my portfolio and send me a comment via the email form or a regular ol’ email. My resume is there, too.
While you’re here, I might as well link you directly to some of the sites I’ve done (links open in new window):
O: organic produce (school project)
Society for Community Development
Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver
Shamble
Pieces (high school project)
Thanks!
I miss eating pears.
I recently made a photo album in iPhoto for all my flower photos. I have 61. On a similar note, I realised how many photos and artwork I have of trees, when thinking about submitting a link to Dave Bonta’s Festival of the Trees. (Thanks for the link, Mom!) [Two of my pieces are featured on the festival page.] I want to put up a photograph of one of my tree drawings, but when I went to look for it, it was nowhere to be found. Is it still in the back of my old bedroom closet? If it’s there, I can photograph it on Friday and send Dave the link. June 30 (Friday) is the deadline.
*EDIT July 5* Yay I found it! My drawing was hidden in a folded newsprint sheet at one end of my portfolio. See it in this post.
Here’s the Tree Knot series:
And one more from one of the same photographs for good measure:
graphic design
Note: Please do not steal my artwork and pretend it’s your own. It has already happened to me twice.
I’ve discovered that in Movable Type one can set their preferences to allow images in comments. So that means it could be a viable medium for doing a community magnetic poetry site. The problem is I can’t seem to make it so that comments automatically appear on the index page.
That also got me thinking about how it would work. People post their poetry… to one single entry? Multiple entries in different categories? How do the categories work? By subject is too broad, and not everyone uses a poetry form like a haiku. Do we make a new entry every day or every week? (I guess that would depend on its popularity.)
Just to reiterate, this would be a blog/site for people to share their magnetic poetry, either by image or by text.
Any ideas?
these were taken on Father’s day, June 18
my apple tree has apples! at last!!! i planted it from seed in the spring of 1995.
my mother’s daisies
all by its lonesome, a heron on the beach at Cates Park
i wonder if it knew we were there, looking at it
looking through a gap in the trees for a better view
since we got our red gerbera, we’ve also bought a dracaena marginata, a pink african violet, a small tropical vine, and this orange gerbera, photographed today in its complimentary blue pot (along with a cutting of our other vine, which is dying).
our dracaena
is it easier for you to read a block of text when proper capitalization is used, as opposed to my habit of not using it at all?
example:
(Fictional story.) Today I went to the supermarket to buy some lettuce but they were all sold out. If I had a few more cents I would drive to the next supermarket to see if they had some. Unfortunately, I have to wait until next month before I can do another debit transaction, like that dad who decided he would go to a girl’s store to find clothing for his son and daughter for their granny’s birthday party. I think I would go to a store that sold both if I knew I had one transaction left, but that would defeat the purpose of the commercial. Grrr, salmon! “It’s salmon,” said my high school principal after a comment on his “pink” shirt. (Actually, that part was true.)
(fictional story.) today i went to the supermarket to buy some lettuce but they were all sold out. if I had a few more cents i would drive to the next supermarket to see if they had some. unfortunately, i have to wait until next month before i can do another debit transaction, like that dad who decided he would go to a girl’s store to find clothing for his son and daughter for their granny’s birthday party. i think i would go to a store that sold both if i knew i had one transaction left, but that would defeat the purpose of the commercial. grrr, salmon! “it’s salmon,” said my high school principal after a comment on his “pink” shirt. (actually, that part was true.)
i’m finding it’s easier to see the chunk of text as distinct sentences rather than potentially run-on text, when there is capitalization. i suddenly feel pretty dumb realising that because of my commitment to readability. hrm… what do you think? please tell me.
photo © Владимир Ролов
posted at Bitacle.org, this is a “collection of Soviet era B&W photographs.”
Photos of urban Soviet life, 1950s and 1960s
>> more by the same photographer (or so i assume)
(please forgive any errors, or the photographer/copyright holder’s name not showing up because it’s in russian, which i can’t read!)