07.02.08

Dead…

Posted in Uncategorized, homework, designing at 6:03 am by jivetalkinmama

My precious laptop is dead…
This afternoon will be spent trying to recover whatever files I can, fortunately I uploaded the internship site I was working on to my hosting site so I can at least recover that… but all the original files are gone, I don’t have photoshop, or dreamweaver on the pc.  Ugh, this bites!

I spent the better part of 6 hours yesterday working on my internship stuff and it’s all gone now.  Of course I didn’t back everything up, but it wouldn’t have helped with the stuff I was working on yesterday.. and that’s the stuff I’m most pissed off about.

Oh, well, what’s done is done… time to head off to school and then this afternoon try and figure out what I’m going to do.  My first stop will be the apple store and see how much this is going to cost to get it back up and running.

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12.18.07

A couple of things…

Posted in Uncategorized, designing, school at 9:56 pm by jivetalkinmama

Semester officially over! Sweet… think I managed at least 2 A’s out of 3 classes.

Next semester will be a bit more difficult with 4 classes, three of which are gen ed (survey of math, writing for business and career management)… the 4th is a usability class wherein we learn how to code php, MySQL and other fun things.

I need to really focus on making designs in photoshop and incorporating them into dreamweaver, and then uploading them.  I think it will make my pages look better, less flat. Oh, and flash… while I don’t enjoy full on flash sites I think a little bit is cool and cutting edge.  I’ll be making a list of stuff I want to learn how to do and making sure I get that in school.

Mailing lists is what I really brought you here to talk about… the band site wants a mailing list.  All I’m familiar with is sites like Bravenet, ad supported apps.  But I’m unsure how they really work.  My client doesn’t want to deal with the mailing list… would that be left up to me to manage since I maintain the site?  I haven’t got a problem with it, just want to be clear how they work.

So, yea… that’s about it for this session…

Happy Holidays!

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12.05.07

Frustration abounds…

Posted in Uncategorized, designing, school at 9:14 pm by jivetalkinmama

So, in school we are working on our portfolios.  Three versions.  Version one: interactive cd.cool.  Version two: website.yay.  Version three: physical, printed one.curses.  I can’t seem to wrap my brain around how we are to re-size the samples for print.  Most of my stuff is websites, not really meant to be printed.  I had my instructor go step by step with me on what I needed to do, I was doing alright in class.  Seemed to understand.  But apparently there is something missing. ugh.  I hate when I can’t figure out things in school.  Makes me feel o.l.d.

In other news… I can’t wait until I have more time to work on my actual personal and freelance sites… going to classes, then working 8 hours, and 1-2 hours spent on class work there are few brain cells functioning.

Did I mention two more semesters? yay.

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12.01.07

do you know your status?

Posted in Uncategorized at 5:51 am by jivetalkinmama

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10.08.07

Ok…since the response was overwhelming…

Posted in Uncategorized, designing, school at 12:10 am by jivetalkinmama

…just kidding… but anyone want to take a stab at this one?

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