Sunday, April 16, 2006

Sun
16
Apr
2006

So Much to Try and Remember

Waaaaaah! All of my Flash skills are gone, as well. I opened it up last night and can't remember how to do a danged thing. This so totally sucks monkey ass! *sigh* So much for making a quick flash header for my design website. If I can find some spare time in the next week, I'll cram from one of my books. If not, I'll have to take that off of my resume as a skill. Argh!

I'm learning Filemaker Pro at work. The owner of the company bought server and 10 licenses for work and I volunteered to implement it. I really just wanted to learn to use it on company time and then get it for my own business later.

I've spent the day throwing stuff out. A LOT of stuff. I had things stuffed in my bedroom closet that I haven't seen since we moved into this house. Actually, I found that old Camp Fire Girl Indian gown I was wearing in that photo I posted last week. I don't know why I've been hanging onto it. It holds no meaning except for a huge waste of my time, so out it went. Clothes I've been holding onto hoping that someday I might fit into them--out they went (when would I have an occasion to wear an early '80s pantsuit anyway?). Mom's old wrapping paper box where all of the ribbon is stained with niccotine and the paper still smells like cigarette smoke--out it went. Huge box of VHS tapes--out it went. I also threw out a plywood reindeer woodworking project that I started over 5 years ago. When I have a house with a garage to work on it and a basement to store the finished project, I'll try again. In the meantime, they're in my way and they give me splinters everytime I try to move them.

I'm changing my craft room into an office (where I can close the door to get some freelance work done), moving a bunch of my craft stuff to the bunny room, and hopefully finding room to store some of the storage stuff in the closets here. If we could save some money by having a smaller off-site storage unit, it would help a little.

OK, that's enough of a break. Back to it.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Tue
11
Apr
2006

I Design

When I have some money, I want to buy myself this "I Design" shirt from iBusyBodies (a CafePress store).

Why can't I come up with a great gimmick like that? They're stick figures, dang it!

I always tell myself that the American public wouldn't waste money on that, yet here I am wanting one. The American public WILL waste their money on that, especially if it is some gift-giving time like Christmas.

OK, Brain, come up with something gimmicky like that!
Tue
11
Apr
2006

I Want My Web Skills Back

So, in the utter depression that I felt after being done with school that I hadn't learned a whole lot more about web than I did going into it, coupled with the fact that there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a "Web Designer" anymore (you have to be a programmer, database developer, Flash expert, etc), I gave up on it. Anybody who has been here in the last year knows that all I've done is changed my banner for the season. While trying to get my freelance/portfolio site online, I've become woefully aware of how much of my former skill is gone. Unfortunately, coding is not like riding a bicycle...it doesn't just come back. I'm having to relearn everything. I can't even write simple CSS anymore without looking up everything. *sigh* Use it or lose it, baby.

So, I'm starting to collect links again. I guess I should start my design blog back up one of these days. For now, I'll just have to collect them here.

Layout Gala: 40 CSS site layout templates
Code Snippets: a repository for web code-will have to check that out when I have time to see if anything is useful
Tue
11
Apr
2006

Favicon Generator

I found this link yesterday for an online favicon generator.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Wed
12
Oct
2005

Online Color Site

Found this link today to Colr.org. Will have to explore that site when I get a chance.
Also found this great tutorial for creating color palettes.