First Speaking Opportunity
Last night I had the opportunity to give a presentation at the Art Institute of Philadelphia on theming WordPress. It was the first time I’ve presented on something web-related outside of a class and I’m really happy with how it went.
Hopefully I can continue to refine my public speaking and presenting skills, as well as my presentation, and continue similar opportunities.
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Just Released: Ocean City Magazine
A few days ago I released the first of 3 sites for a client through my part time position at Chop Dawg Studios, Gone Native Communications.
Ocean City Magazine is a lifestyle magazine for Ocean City, NJ. They wanted a site that reflected the shore location, that felt modern and had some functionality including archiving issues and subscribing to the magazine.
The site runs on WordPress, which allows them to run a blog/news section, their issues section and an easy to update events listing.
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Unfinished Mock Up
I started this mock up for a client, but soon realized that I was headed in the wrong direction. I really like where it’s headed, so I’ll have to unearth it and develop it further and see where I can take it.
Tools: Photoshop
Fonts: Cabin, Yanone Kaffeesatz
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March/April Links
Some links I’ve been storing the past month plus:
3DROPS: I love the implementation of the lightbox. It takes up the whole screen and feels very immersive.
Gridulator: Create a png grid overlay that you can import into Photoshop/your design tool of choice. Definite the width of your grid, the gutters and margins, etc.
How to Move a WordPress Website using MySQL and phpMyAdmin: I’ve been doing a lot of WordPress lately and this is the best guide I’ve found for moving from MAMP to a live site.
Advice for dealing with design clients: Great advice. My favs – “Don’t call yourself a freelancer”, and “The client is not your boss”
25 CSS Snippets for Some of the Most Common and Frustrating Tasks
Enjoy!
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Dyslexia Information
Recently I’ve been seeing quite a few searches for the dyslexia project I completed for school course on web accessibility. I removed the project after I re-launched my portfolio to be less school centered & more freelance/professional centered.
Since it’s been getting so many searches, I decided to put it back online, viewable here. Documentation is available, which goes into more detail and lists many more sources of information. Please contact me for more information or for a copy.
On a personal note, I’m really happy to see it’s received a tiny bit of interest and can be of help to people. My brother has fairly severe dyslexia, so this was a chance for me to research deeper into how he views the web & how I, as a web designer, could make it easier for him.
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