11.09.08

Been a while

Posted in designing at 9:51 am by jivetalkinmama

Haven’t posted much in this blog since I finished school.  I’ve got one client who isn’t so quick to give me work, even tho their site is horribly messed up and it costs them twice as much for me to do an update that should take me half the time… go figure.

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09.28.08

Been forever….

Posted in Uncategorized at 9:48 pm by jivetalkinmama

Oh, my god…Wordpress ate my long and rambling post. :head.desk:

So, where was I?  Clearly not learning from my mistakes and not re-typing this post in a word processor instead of directly onto Wordpress.

Since I finished school I’ve been working hell-ish hours at my regular job, got one client, yay! Go me!  They currently needed some critical updates done and have spent the majority of my billable hours working on file management.  The files were a mess, and getting them in order will help with the re-design, when it comes.  Hopefully they will need me on long-term to do maintenance on the site. Will continue to make changes to the files to make them easier to find for future use and will make them a css page of their current fonts, etc to make the re-design easier.
I’ve finished my logo and updated my design site: Teri Coon Designs I decided to stick with browns and greens.  I loved the blue but it was taking me in a weird design direction I didn’t think I liked.  A nice concept but not for what I was looking for.

Updated the site: Tipp Hill Music Fest using the poster design (not mine) I based the web design on that.  I like themes.  I feel it’s comforting for people to know that everything matches, ok…it might be just comforting to me.  But I like a co-hesive look for things like festivals and band sites…which brings me to…

The Z-Bones website… needs updating, but the current design is based on their color scheme for the last cd released.  I am trying to get them to just use Myspace.  So much easier to just have that, especially when they want to have their fanbase to be able to download music.  Much easier to have them do is on a site where it’s already set up for that purpose.  For a selfish point of view I would like the to keep their regular site, but it’s costly and Myspace is free.

Have a marketing meeting for the site that I started doing for my internship, Hope for Bereaved I’m ready to wrap that one up.  Still a few more tweaks but I’ll iron those out tomorrow.  I am still trying to get them to let me do the updates instead of explainig how the content management system works.  I only hope they count on me to do any big updates, but I have to be prepared for them not to let me.  I still need to finish the banner on the header, it’s a bit blah.  They had wanted scrolling text for upcoming events but I nixed that idea.  Maybe as a compromise in the banner I can have some sort of text that changes with page refresh on upcoming events.  I think it can be done tacktfully… although my brain is honing on just incorporating some pictures, etc in the banner.  Something soft that blends in with the themes.

Well, I’m going to cut and paste this thing so if it goes tits up I’ll have a copy.

~ciao

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08.16.08

How am I supposed to work like this?

Posted in Uncategorized at 11:09 am by jivetalkinmama

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08.11.08

The intern that wouldn’t leave

Posted in Uncategorized, designing at 9:39 am by jivetalkinmama

Since I’ve finished school it’s time to look for a proper job.  I keep showing up at my internship site to work, maybe they will take pity on me and hire me ) Actually I’m still working on the project I started while I was interning and have gotten permission to continue the project at their facility. I wanted to see the project to completion and I didn’t want to leave the client waiting for another intern to get the job finished.
I’m working on understanding the inner workings of Wordpress… it’s a complicated beast, to say the least. Anyone in cyberspace understand Wordpress?
I need an uninterrupted day to sit down and dissect the code.

What else??  Working on my resume, and logo, and my freelance website…. I’m giving myself the rest of August to get it all worked out so that when the kids head back to school I can focus my energies on getting a job, or freelance jobs, or both.

Found a great website that has a tutorial on how to take a photoshop mock-up and turn it into a css/html website. It’s a really great, easy to follow, plain english tutorial.  I am going to work on making my freelance/business site with this tutorial… stay tuned internet.

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08.05.08

Done!

Posted in school at 4:14 pm by jivetalkinmama

I am officially DONE with school…wOOt!

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