New art

Posted on May 18, 2013 in illustration

I drew a thing. I needed to take a break from working on my site. This follows the same idea as some of my older work. The last one, unfinished, was actually transferred to wood and the key block carved before I graduated SCAD and didn’t get a chance to print it. I’m not entirely […]

Progress on RWD / portfolio redesign

Posted on May 12, 2013 in portfolio, process, web design

I’m trying my hand at Responsive Web Design. It’s a really different way of thinking. I have to think: “How is this this going to look on different devices.” I started out doing desktop down but that confused me. So I turned it around and tried mobile first. That was easier for my brain to […]

Whaaaat?

Posted on May 7, 2013 in process, web design

Here’s what gave me a massive headache yesterday and today: “I really want to do a responsive web design.” “I have to figure out fluid grids.” “So, how do I do fluid images?” Media queries…hmmm. HTML5 — “I don’t even need most of this for my website and this is making me sleepy.” CSS3 — […]

New project — updating portfolio

Posted on Apr 30, 2013 in graphic design, illustration, process, projects

I’ve started to work on updating my portfolio. I don’t have any new illustration pieces but there are things I want to do with a few of the existing ones. Mainly, I want to add some design/typographic elements — that were in the original/final image but I’ve since realized that they suck (Thanks Intro to […]

Project 6 — almost there done

Posted on Apr 19, 2013 in process, projects, web design

Project 6 is finished and uploaded to the Valencia Web Studio. My latest work-in-progress. I added the drop down for the about pages and added the contact page. It’s almost finished but I have no idea why it’s scrolling horizontally. And I’m stumped on how to figure it out. progress so far started coding — […]

Project 6 — starting fresh

Posted on Apr 17, 2013 in process, projects, web design

I went back a few steps and redid the CSS so that it’s more organized. Instead of jumping back and forth between sections, I worked from the top down. Then I just swapped out the main content for each page. Getting my workflow organized makes everything go much smoother. And I’m not as confused about […]

Project 6 — coding

Posted on Apr 16, 2013 in process, projects, web design

I started coding for project 6. I feel like I have a really haphazard process of coding. It starts out simple when I’m just putting the content into the HTML file. But once I start working on the CSS I go back and forth between div’s. I’m not very good at organizing my CSS. So, […]

Project 5 — everything else

Posted on Apr 16, 2013 in process, projects, web design

Here’s my process book for this project. This is also the project I’ll code for project 6. I still have to comp the contact page. Or that might not be necessary since it’s just replacing content. Wireframes Comps

4/9/13 — Week thirteen

Posted on Apr 16, 2013 in class notes

We finished up the in-class exercise (taking a comp from PSD to HTML/CSS). A lot of the stuff we went over was familiar to me so my notes were really sparse. But we talked about styling links and what order they have to be coded: a:link (all links) a:visited a:hover a:active project 6 4 pages […]