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Date: Sep 08, 2009, 11:41am
Finished a great book on blogging, and am now working on finishing up a series of videos on getting started with JQuery.
Having fun learning new things!!
Date: Sep 03, 2009, 12:38pm
Made another small change today, I decided that having a static home page and a separate updates page was kind of silly, so I combined those two pages into one and made it the new home page.
I'm toying with the idea of switching the updates to a WordPress blog in the future. Hmmm...
Date: Aug 26, 2009, 1:17pm
Well, it's been all about SEO lately! I just finished a minor site update that included updating all of the page titles and reordering the keyword list. It will be interesting to see what sort of effect they will have when I check the analytics results over the next month or so.
Additionally, I decided to get rid of the animation page, as there has been little interest from clients for any animation projects, so the page was getting kind of stale.
Back to reading up on SEO and blogging.
Date: Mar 21, 2009, 8:38pm
Just finished a small update to the site. Added an internal search window, cleaned up two of the databases. I also reworked some of the back end stuff that you can't see, but should make things a bit smoother!
Date: Jan 20, 2009, 11:53pm
The last couple of weeks has been all about researching Wordpress, Web 2.0 and microformats! I've updated my contact page accordingly and am hoping to hear from Yahoo soon about local business search information
Date: Sep 07, 2008, 3:06pm
Back to school!
Things have finally mellowed out enough that I'm picking up a couple of classes at West Valley College this semester. In particular is an Advanced Photoshop class that is taught online and I'm really looking forward to it.
And in addition to that and a basic design class that should be really easy, I decided to take a SCUBA course! I was certified years ago, but recently I rediscovered how much I miss being around and in the ocean.
Should be fun!!
And on the work side of things, I may have just picked up two new clients!
Date: Jun 01, 2008, 11:05am
Well, after nearly a week of research and haunting online forums about how to use PHP to format MySQL dates, I found a bit of code that worked!
The result of that has been that I finally went live with this news & updates page, so this version of my online site is now a bit closer to where I want it. This also gave me a chance to set up and interface with another database, and I can always use some more practice on that!
Next on this will be to finish off porting a client's guestbook over to a database, which I'd been delaying until I got the date formatting issue figured out.
Date: May 10, 2008, 2:21am
Yay!
I finally got the recipe database set up! At this point it just has a basic list of some of my favorite dishes (have I mentioned I'm a major food fanatic?) but I hope to add more interactivity to that section, like a place for people to add their own recipes and perhaps a rating system.
We'll see what the future holds on those features, work has just ramped up dramatically with one client and that will definitely affect my time for "fun" projects and research.
Date: Apr 09, 2008, 9:30am
I finally threw in the towel on my website hosting company (who shall remain nameless) today and switched services. I'd been dealing with their tech support for weeks trying to hook up a simple database with no luck. A friend of mine in Santa Cruz pointed me at Host Gator and I decided to give them a shot.
Well lo and behold, within two days of switching over and having the new DNS settings resolve I was able to set up a test database, link to it and have all of the functionality I'd been wishing for!
Sometimes it's best to just chuck everything out and start from scratch!
Date: Mar 13, 2008, 12:25pm
Well after years of procrastinating (man time flies sometimes!) I finally finished off this redesign of my portfolio.
The previous "Version 1.0" site was a table-based layout that was done for a Dreamweaver class I took at Cabrillo College almost five years ago. Needless to say, as I learned more about CSS positioning and formatting, that site really started bothering me!
So this site has been set up completely with CSS styles and positioning, and uses PHP for the home page counter and the includes for the header, footer, and navbar.
I opted to use the somewhat muted grays with the thought that the actual portfolio items of interest (Print, Animation, Web Sites, and Testimonials pages) would pop a bit more as they would be splashes of color against a rather neutral background.
Overall, I'm really happy with this site as it is now but I just know I'll want to redesign it in a couple of years!
