Mostly musings on design
I’ve got a new “refined” grunge look for my portfolio site (some people thought it was a tad too dark and edgy in it’s previous look). But I will still be tweaking it and adding more content in the next few weeks. Feel free to critique it in the comments. It’s still not visually interesting enough for me so there will most likely be some visual accents added in the near future.
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Well this is much better. Not perfect. But better. I ran across Adobe’s Spry Javascript Framework. I’m not a code freak. I can’t think/design/develop in Javascript or PHP. Oh I can resize windows and get an email form to work. But the only coding I really know is XHTML, CSS and Flash’s Actionscript - and Actionscript only enough to get things done–please don’t expect a full featured Flash application. But the Spry framework made something “neat” possible for me. Thanks Adobe. I’ll be uploading more of my work soon, but something is now up that I’m not afraid to claim as my own. It works. How well? We’ll have to see. I think I’m going to redesign my blog now. Something more “grungy.”
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Well something of my portfolio is up. I will be the first to admit that it sucks. I wonder why I even bothered. It took way too long to narrow down the infrastructure -static XHTML or use Wordpress’ dynamic PHP template system. I wanted to tie it into the blog as far as the look and feel. But trying to actually tie it *into* the blog turned out to be more of a headache then it was worth. I’m probably going to redo my portfolio in Flash because hey, I can get it to do what I want and I can do impressive stuff which is what my portfolio is supposed to do - you know, impress people. Right now it might cause people to laugh and wonder what the heck mediaRAIN does why they bother to pay me. But I do have something up now and I plan on making it better. Therefore the first (and often the hardest) step is done and now it’s time to make my portfolio and site shine. And get a job in Michigan.
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