06.23.08

Mid-internship eval…

Posted in designing, school at 10:09 pm by jivetalkinmama

and it was good!  Everything was marked ‘exceeds expectations’ except one… and I will admit that when he got to that one, which was ‘meets expectations’, I felt a little deflated.

But it was all good!

Hopefully they are hiring in September.

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06.13.08

might go all pear shaped

Posted in designing at 7:03 am by jivetalkinmama

I’m gonna be messing with this here blog (like I don’t have anything more pressing to do)… so it might go all wrong….

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05.28.08

Some days are so difficult…

Posted in designing, school at 8:01 pm by jivetalkinmama

I’m working at my internship site, great place…fingers crossed they are hiring in September and realize they can’t possibly do without me.

Anyway, today was a trying day. One of those days where, try as I might, I can’t understand what I’m actually supposed to do. I asked.twice….actually 3 times and still don’t quite understand what I’m supposed to be doing next. So I’m going to just carry on making the website as I normally would. Making images, and slicing the photoshop mock-up and plugging it all into Dreamweaver and go from there.

See we are eventually going to make a CMS for this website, but I don’t know how to do that and don’t really know if there is anything I need to do differently from the outset. Eventually there will be css and php controlling the look and feel and dynamic content of the site. Here’s what they guys told me to do: ‘What I would do now is formalize all of you styles and web standards. Things like body copy, lists, headlines, captions, etc. That will help in the development of the cms, as well as provide a guide for future users. Also, creating some layout templates/guides will help as the site grows. So maybe one layout that can handle content with photos, another that is all text.’

Quoi?

Do they want me to make blank templates in Dreamweaver? Whenever I make a site I do a ‘template’ of sorts of the basic structure of the page, the bones if you will so that all pages will have the same look and feel without much shifting (I hate it when you switch from page to page and there is a subtle shift…makes me crazy but sometimes not easy to get around…still, crazy making!)

It’s one of those days where terminology is tripping me up…oh, and my being a control freak kicks in…’Whadya mean future users?’

Well… time to watch Ghost Hunters… and work on something fun for an hour or so..

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05.23.08

It’s been a long time…

Posted in designing, school at 7:25 am by jivetalkinmama

I’m in my last semester at school, and well into my internship. Things are going great! I’m on my way to learning PHP..wOOt! Worked up a proposal for my internship site and they loved it! My supervisor told me that I did a great job with little direction.
So, that’s about it for now… ciao!

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04.05.08

A bit like giving birth…

Posted in designing, school at 8:48 am by jivetalkinmama

So, I’ve got an interview at a possible internship site (yay!) and I am trying to familiarize myself with the website.  They apparently use this CMS Made Simple which I found anything but simple to navigate… but after hours of hard labor I got it to upload onto my webspace so now I can fiddle around with it and see how it works so that I’ll be all prepared!

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