Thursday, July 31, 2008
Completion.
Finally completed the splash site for client #2194. Check out the site here. Happy with the outcome. Got a lot of learning experience out of this site and am looking forward to doing another. Now I fully understand the 960 grid and how to implement into the design and coding process which is a big help.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Sooo..
With the help of Dustin I took a second look at my site and he explained how on splash site like this , with no contact with the client, it's best to stay a bit more generic with the design. So I did a redesign, which in my opinion looks a bit more professional. Overall pretty happy with the redesign.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Alrighttt
Client 2194's page is finally coming along. Check it out here if you want to see what has been done so far. Took a bit of tweaking to finally get it looking decent in I.E 6. Hopefully sometime soon everyone running that browser gets some type of virus that infects there computer and forces them to upgrade to firefox. Certainly would make our job a whole lot less complicated. Until then we must obey the crapiness that is I.E 6. All that's left now is to format exsisting text and add the main content and I'll finally be finished. Started out just coding the entire site by hand, then came across the 960 grid so I had to go back and convert everything to work with that and it's been smooth sailing since then. Looking forward to using it in future sites.
In other news I've almost perfected the art of braiding to the beautiful head of hair that just so happens to belong to the Shu. Hopefully my gf doesn't become suspicious of my newly found skill and think anything of it....
In other news I've almost perfected the art of braiding to the beautiful head of hair that just so happens to belong to the Shu. Hopefully my gf doesn't become suspicious of my newly found skill and think anything of it....
Monday, July 28, 2008
Excitement
Was not in the agenda today. Spent quite some time getting accustomed to the 960 grid system. Its cool. I like it. Certainly will help speed up the coding/design process in the future and really helps to keep your design in sync with the code.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Learned...
Quite a bit of new techniques today. One of the biggest was getting transparencies to work within I.E 6. Man what a pain that turned out to be. I found the easiest way was to include the TwinHelix transparency fix in your css. Although I'm not too sure on the gritty details of it, I was able to integrate it and have it working in I.E 6.
Keeping it short today due to eye pain and redness....
Keeping it short today due to eye pain and redness....
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Ouch
This chair really tears up my back. I might as well be sitting against a concrete wall with a piece of rebar coming out into my spine, actually that might be a bit more pleasing now that I think of it. Ah just trying to do the best I can to ignore it for now. Maybe I'll get a new chair after this paycheck, after all health should come before all else right??
Spent the entire working on the A&E electric site. Coming along nicely with a pretty neat hawaiian type theme. Should have it done and cranked out by Friday.
Not much more on my mind today. Somehow got suckered into agreeing to watch Mama Mia with the gf tonight, wish me luck.......
Spent the entire working on the A&E electric site. Coming along nicely with a pretty neat hawaiian type theme. Should have it done and cranked out by Friday.
Not much more on my mind today. Somehow got suckered into agreeing to watch Mama Mia with the gf tonight, wish me luck.......
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Today
Consisted mainly of a healthy dose of content writing mixed with a decent balance of site design. Definitely enjoying one more then the other. Although I occasionally run into a creativity roadblock and have to browse around a few sites until I catch a bit of inspiration. It is a bit difficult to keep your creative juices flowing all the time, just need to get a few snacks and maybe some decent music and take your mind off of what's going on around you and just focus on what your doing. Easier said then done no doubt. Been working hard at managing my time better lately. Not just at work but at the house too. Certainly some bad habits that form at home could be carried over into the workplace (laziness, etc.) I found a good way to do this is to keep track of everything your working on and also things that need to be done. A site that helps me alot with this kind of stuff is www.30boxes.com. It's basically a big calendar and you click on a date to add a task or reminder. I have it set as my homepage both and work and home and they integrate together, this way when think of something that needs to get done, work related or non, I can just click in the box and give myself a reminder of it. Found it to be quite useful.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Started....
on my first splash today. Excited to finally put dreamweaver to use. It's been sitting on the comp getting no love for quite some time now. I personally really enjoy using it. I know some people who live only by hand-coding and express nothing but hatred towards dreamweaver. To them I say give it a chance. It has a slight learning curve, but once you get passed that it's easy sailing. It can speed up productivity by quite a bit. Looking forward to putting some of my designer based skills into use. Page should be done within the next couple days. Spent the majority of the day on getting it into Plesk (someone needs to upgrade this server off of dial-up)
Other then that I finished up the design for another license site today. Check it here! (warning you may become rich)
Other then that I finished up the design for another license site today. Check it here! (warning you may become rich)
Friday, July 18, 2008
So..
Ended up going to Dark Knight after all last night, hence the abundance of mountain dew cans on and around my desk. "Wow" pretty much sums up the entire movie. Ledger's performance, as I'm sure you all have heard by now, was absolutely stunning. The Joker is probably THE most cynical, evil, twisted and just plain mad villain I've ever experienced in a film. I caught myself more then once throughout the film with my mouth wide open completely enticed by the incredible performance he brought to the movie. Definitely a Must-see and most certainly be heading back to the IMAX for an encore of this masterpiece.
Somewhere in the past week I seem to have sabotaged the databases on a few timberlakes I was working on. No it wasn't purposely. Apparently somewhere in the process of backing up/ loading new timberlakes, I somehow managed to copy one of the database files into about 5 different timberlakes thereby linking them all together. Change the title of one of the timberlakes, and bam all 5 change. So I spent the majority of the day going back and cleaning up my mess. Thankfully I was able to catch the problem before it became a bit more widespread. Other than that managed to finish off a couple of small, yet important, reworks to help get some ranking on some sites and make the clients happy.
Hope everyone has a great weekend, and go watch Dark Knight.
Somewhere in the past week I seem to have sabotaged the databases on a few timberlakes I was working on. No it wasn't purposely. Apparently somewhere in the process of backing up/ loading new timberlakes, I somehow managed to copy one of the database files into about 5 different timberlakes thereby linking them all together. Change the title of one of the timberlakes, and bam all 5 change. So I spent the majority of the day going back and cleaning up my mess. Thankfully I was able to catch the problem before it became a bit more widespread. Other than that managed to finish off a couple of small, yet important, reworks to help get some ranking on some sites and make the clients happy.
Hope everyone has a great weekend, and go watch Dark Knight.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Finally!
Finished up the Silver Labrador site today. Overall pretty pleased with the way it turned out. Seemed as though Kathy took a liking to it so hopefully the client will be happy also. Actually enjoyed working on the site as it was a big break from the norm that we get around here (MLM's much?). Pretty happy I got to work on it. Maybe I'll be able to do a web build sometime in the future.
Dark Knight premiere tonight. Sadly wasn't able to snag any tickets b4 they were all sold out. Going on the weekend for sure though.
Hungry.
Dark Knight premiere tonight. Sadly wasn't able to snag any tickets b4 they were all sold out. Going on the weekend for sure though.
Hungry.
Monday, July 14, 2008
So...
This week's got quite a bit going for it so far. Mostly the Dark Knight on Friday but still a few other things in between. Looking forward to the sony/nintendo press conferences from E3 tommorow. Havn't heard much from either party lately and hoping to be impressed by some suprise tidbit of news. FFXIII is coming to the 360, another reason to avoid ps3 for the time being.
Got stuck with a few very time consuming accounts today. #926 was a license site that completely vanished and was in need of a complete rehaul. Design and coding are both finished and content is on the way. #2213 is new, which for some reason is taking stubborningly long to propagate. The mirroring design elements are all complete and once the site finally comes through I can throw them all together and make it look very similar to the original. Hate having to wait for propagation.....
Got stuck with a few very time consuming accounts today. #926 was a license site that completely vanished and was in need of a complete rehaul. Design and coding are both finished and content is on the way. #2213 is new, which for some reason is taking stubborningly long to propagate. The mirroring design elements are all complete and once the site finally comes through I can throw them all together and make it look very similar to the original. Hate having to wait for propagation.....
Friday, July 11, 2008
Here comes
the rain. Hopefully. I love the rain. Makes me happy for some reason. I guess living here all your life tends to make you look forward to such things.
Today sort of dragged on slowly. The term "sort of" doesn't really mean anything. It's kind of just a filler when there is nothing else to say. Unless of course it's used in certain context. Like "I love you, sort of" or "I didn't kill him, sort of". Gotta love Demetri Martin. Favorite comedian recently. I highly recommend checking out his cd "these jokes".
Looking forward to the much needed weekend. Just been pretty out of it this weekend, not entirely sure the reason either. Not much planned probably just play some team fortress 2 or bad company and hang with the girlfriend.
Today sort of dragged on slowly. The term "sort of" doesn't really mean anything. It's kind of just a filler when there is nothing else to say. Unless of course it's used in certain context. Like "I love you, sort of" or "I didn't kill him, sort of". Gotta love Demetri Martin. Favorite comedian recently. I highly recommend checking out his cd "these jokes".
Looking forward to the much needed weekend. Just been pretty out of it this weekend, not entirely sure the reason either. Not much planned probably just play some team fortress 2 or bad company and hang with the girlfriend.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
So
I've come to the conclusion that the air conditioner helps very little during the heat ridden afternoons that we've all become so used to. Well noone to blame but Daniel.
Spent the majority of the day finishing a license site up. Pretty happy with the header I suppose.
Got a lot of work done mirroring another new, for some reason the site is taking an unusually long time to propagate (been waiting since before lunch) so I was forced to style on another timberlake and just save the css for when it finally does. The original has somewhat of a unique style so it should be fun incorporating it all into a timberlake. Check the original here. Starting to get into the habit of scetching out my design ideas before incorporating them. Makes it a bit easier to remember ideas that I think of while brainstorming. I know alot of full-time freelancers live by this technique and it's a good thing to incorporate into your design process. Simple things such as jotting down the hex value of a color into a box can all add up to save time later on and take a bit of weight of your shoulders in the end.
Overall just happy to finally have a break from all the pinks we've been smothered with lately.
Spent the majority of the day finishing a license site up. Pretty happy with the header I suppose.
Got a lot of work done mirroring another new, for some reason the site is taking an unusually long time to propagate (been waiting since before lunch) so I was forced to style on another timberlake and just save the css for when it finally does. The original has somewhat of a unique style so it should be fun incorporating it all into a timberlake. Check the original here. Starting to get into the habit of scetching out my design ideas before incorporating them. Makes it a bit easier to remember ideas that I think of while brainstorming. I know alot of full-time freelancers live by this technique and it's a good thing to incorporate into your design process. Simple things such as jotting down the hex value of a color into a box can all add up to save time later on and take a bit of weight of your shoulders in the end.
Overall just happy to finally have a break from all the pinks we've been smothered with lately.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Arbys
is so delicious. I sometimes wonder why they are so delicious then I realize its because they are so delicious. Gonna make this one fast today as my contacts are killing me and I can't look at the screen very long.
Did work on an actual Legitimate home based business today. Not one of those fake promise ridden "opportunities" This is the real deal folks. Check it out and get in on the secret.
Overall day was pretty good nothing to much complain about.
Did work on an actual Legitimate home based business today. Not one of those fake promise ridden "opportunities" This is the real deal folks. Check it out and get in on the secret.
Overall day was pretty good nothing to much complain about.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
A gift from god.
No not MLM's, buffets! Heading over to one with the gf after work today. Today was slow for the most part. At least news of an air conditioner being put in today boosted morale a bit. It's just so draining working in this heat it's hard to be motivated towards much of anything. Just when you get in the right mindset, you start focusing on how hot it is and it all goes downhill from there.
Got a couple pinks started today. Got them to the point where all that I needed was for the URL to be moved to the new server from dreamhost. Kind of a pain to get to the pooint where your almost finished only to not be able to go any further because of the old hosting. Oh well at least I'll be able to knock those out rather quickly tommorow.
Got a couple pinks started today. Got them to the point where all that I needed was for the URL to be moved to the new server from dreamhost. Kind of a pain to get to the pooint where your almost finished only to not be able to go any further because of the old hosting. Oh well at least I'll be able to knock those out rather quickly tommorow.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Hope
everyone had a good holiday. Today, although on the quieter side, was just another monday. Got a site for a client mirrored to their original. Finally a break from the usual, this site was for a very unique "cash gifting program" Wish I had the money to join, for whoever does is destined to be rich.
Hopefully these things are just a trend and pass by with time. Weekend wore me out pretty well looking forward to catching up tonight hopefully. Apparently were getting a new kitten of some sort at the house. I dunno....
Hopefully these things are just a trend and pass by with time. Weekend wore me out pretty well looking forward to catching up tonight hopefully. Apparently were getting a new kitten of some sort at the house. I dunno....
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Have a...
great holiday. Try and remember at least portions of it.
Finished a license site today. Had to go through the content and generalize all of it. Took up the majority of the day. Tweaked the css a bit and styled the weblink box also. Also tweaked content for another site that wasn't exactly keyword dense, yet strangely it was ranking, and quite well at that. 79 first page placements for only 15 keywords isn't half bad at all. Not to mention there were very few bolded keywords and the density was quite low. A first page placement for "cost effective transcription" is very impressive indeed. Just makes you want to know exactly what is going on in these search engines even more. You can check that site out here.
Finished a license site today. Had to go through the content and generalize all of it. Took up the majority of the day. Tweaked the css a bit and styled the weblink box also. Also tweaked content for another site that wasn't exactly keyword dense, yet strangely it was ranking, and quite well at that. 79 first page placements for only 15 keywords isn't half bad at all. Not to mention there were very few bolded keywords and the density was quite low. A first page placement for "cost effective transcription" is very impressive indeed. Just makes you want to know exactly what is going on in these search engines even more. You can check that site out here.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Implementation..
of new protocols has initiated today. That sounded fancy, anyways added a fancy badge like object to one of the "weblinks". Check it HERE yo. Gonna make a little template like thingy that will be easy to exchange within different timberlakes.
Got a couple hots on my desk today. Went through most of them pretty easily. Looking forward to the 4th should be pretty cool. Hopefully don't blow anything up.
Got a couple hots on my desk today. Went through most of them pretty easily. Looking forward to the 4th should be pretty cool. Hopefully don't blow anything up.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Who would've thought...
There was so much to know in the shading business. Glad to have finally gotten the content for client #1020 out of the way. It's been lingering in my to-do list for about a week now. Every time I thought I might finally be able to knock it out, something else would pop up. Overall I think it came out pretty well granted it was the first site I've had to completely re-write. Not the funnest of experiences, but could certainly come in handy for future sites.
A few new protocols were introduced today. We are now directed to add a bit more "flair" into the contact box at the top of the site. Also a contact page is now required with a simple submission form on each. This in combination with the required mirroring of the clients original site is a good step in the direction of breaking off from the normal generic timberlakes.
A few new protocols were introduced today. We are now directed to add a bit more "flair" into the contact box at the top of the site. Also a contact page is now required with a simple submission form on each. This in combination with the required mirroring of the clients original site is a good step in the direction of breaking off from the normal generic timberlakes.
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