Two More
9/16/2007 at 9:09 PM
I have been working on two more websites.
One is a cute little site for a local business. http://www.ReynoldsPumpkinFarm.com
The other is a business site for myself. It is really just a blog but it works fine. I don't like the design, just needed something to put up. http://www.JessicaDeanByDesign.com
Let me know what you think. :)
I have been working a little bit more with photoshop. Figured out some more tools and layering. I don't have all the extra accents and backgrounds so I just work with what I have. It's turning into a nice tool after all.
One is a cute little site for a local business. http://www.ReynoldsPumpkinFarm.com
The other is a business site for myself. It is really just a blog but it works fine. I don't like the design, just needed something to put up. http://www.JessicaDeanByDesign.com
Let me know what you think. :)
I have been working a little bit more with photoshop. Figured out some more tools and layering. I don't have all the extra accents and backgrounds so I just work with what I have. It's turning into a nice tool after all.
I have been so busy.
8/22/2007 at 6:11 PM
This hobby has been taking up a lot of my time. I have been working on and upgrading the original websites (listed in my first blog) and have now been commissioned to do two more with others waiting in the wings.
Open source applications are wonderful and make work very easy. I get to do all of the fun design stuff and haven’t had to learn any new languages.
I haven't been able to spend anytime on graphic design but that is where I would like to go. I have no formal training in any software, so I just have been picking things up as I go. I did spend some time in photoshop the other day and made some logo banners for my personal site.
The thing that I really want to get into is called Blender. It is open source and I have it loaded to my computer but I haven't been able to work with it at all. I have no idea how it works but I have seen what it can do and it is amazing!!! You can see for yourself at http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/gallery/images/ . Anyone who has used it, please make comments.
That's all for now, I had better get back to work. :)
Open source applications are wonderful and make work very easy. I get to do all of the fun design stuff and haven’t had to learn any new languages.
I haven't been able to spend anytime on graphic design but that is where I would like to go. I have no formal training in any software, so I just have been picking things up as I go. I did spend some time in photoshop the other day and made some logo banners for my personal site.
The thing that I really want to get into is called Blender. It is open source and I have it loaded to my computer but I haven't been able to work with it at all. I have no idea how it works but I have seen what it can do and it is amazing!!! You can see for yourself at http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/gallery/images/ . Anyone who has used it, please make comments.
That's all for now, I had better get back to work. :)
I wrote my first php website.
4/9/2007 at 9:47 PM
I have been working on the todayshomesteading.com site and I have finished the css file and most of the pages are php. (I am so proud) All that is left to do is get the content, the most important part.
I knew that php would save me alot of trouble and just one small code has done just that. Just by using one very small line of code I can include one file in all the other files and not have to copy the same code to each page. PHP is great and I haven't even scratched the surface of what it can do. This site (hv) uses php and when I come here I think "I want to write that".
TodaysHomesteading.com is also conforming to the transitional w3c stuff. Not perfect but it works. The other thing is that it looks best in IE. I'm still working on that. :(
I knew that php would save me alot of trouble and just one small code has done just that. Just by using one very small line of code I can include one file in all the other files and not have to copy the same code to each page. PHP is great and I haven't even scratched the surface of what it can do. This site (hv) uses php and when I come here I think "I want to write that".
TodaysHomesteading.com is also conforming to the transitional w3c stuff. Not perfect but it works. The other thing is that it looks best in IE. I'm still working on that. :(
I did it!
3/27/2007 at 11:14 PM
I wrote my first in-page CSS. It is the home page for http://www.TodaysHomesteading.com. It looks almost identical to the original html page with tables. I am so excited.... really! CSS is one of those things that you either get it or you don't and until the other day, I really didn't get it. I am not going to say that I totally understand what I am doing, just that it actually worked.
It looks the best on IE. Mozilla doesn't have the paragraph spacing right and I didn't check Netscape. Don't even ask if it validates. At this moment, I really don't care. The style sheet is sloppy but it gets the job done. Now I need to make a .css file to style all the other pages on the site.
Feel free to comment on my code or borrow it if you like it. I got the general idea from a site called http://glish.com/css/. I used the 'static width and centered' code. Just stripped it down and added back in what I wanted. It worked great.
It looks the best on IE. Mozilla doesn't have the paragraph spacing right and I didn't check Netscape. Don't even ask if it validates. At this moment, I really don't care. The style sheet is sloppy but it gets the job done. Now I need to make a .css file to style all the other pages on the site.
Feel free to comment on my code or borrow it if you like it. I got the general idea from a site called http://glish.com/css/. I used the 'static width and centered' code. Just stripped it down and added back in what I wanted. It worked great.
CSS & PHP
3/22/2007 at 12:49 AM
So, I've been looking at some CSS and PHP. Playing around with some free stuff that I loaded to the server from Fantastico. It is not the latest and greatest but it is good for me to learn on.
I studied up on the CSS syntax and values and now I seem to be dreaming about it. I haven't typed in my own code yet but I want to work on it soon. I am going to re-write todayshomesteading.com because it is only in the very beginning of construction. The other sites are complete and I really don't want to start over with them yet.
I am looking forward to using PHP. It seems easy to manipulate and it gives me lots of ideas that will make my coding life much easier.
I love comments for resources, so if you know of a great one, let me know.
I studied up on the CSS syntax and values and now I seem to be dreaming about it. I haven't typed in my own code yet but I want to work on it soon. I am going to re-write todayshomesteading.com because it is only in the very beginning of construction. The other sites are complete and I really don't want to start over with them yet.
I am looking forward to using PHP. It seems easy to manipulate and it gives me lots of ideas that will make my coding life much easier.
I love comments for resources, so if you know of a great one, let me know.
Just a hobby.
3/5/2007 at 7:24 PM
Ok, so I started to play with web design last year about April. I had so much fun I am working on my 4th. They are not over the edge or anything, just regular sites. Friends of mine say "wow, you did that" and real web designers say "you should not be publishing this". I know that they do not conform with the w3c stuff, I am working on that.
I figured out html in a weekend (not hard stuff) and then went on to play with javascript (can't write it but there is enough out there to manipulate). Now I want to get into php. I should probably rework the sites that I already have to bring them up to code before I go on with something else so I should really get to know css first. If you read this and have no idea what I am talking about, don't worry, I didn't know any of this last year myself. If you are far above me and would like to give some friendly advice, I'd love to hear it.
My first site was for our town: http://www.MyWaynesboro.com
Second site uses a free shopping cart from nopdesign: http://www.MyCanineCafe.com
Then I did a site for a local realtor: Jonathan-Dean.com, (no longer on-line as of 8/10/07)
Most recently I have been working on a site that takes almost no skill at all. It uses two free apps., one is for noah's classifieds and the other is for smf forums: http://www.TodaysHomesteading.com
I figured out html in a weekend (not hard stuff) and then went on to play with javascript (can't write it but there is enough out there to manipulate). Now I want to get into php. I should probably rework the sites that I already have to bring them up to code before I go on with something else so I should really get to know css first. If you read this and have no idea what I am talking about, don't worry, I didn't know any of this last year myself. If you are far above me and would like to give some friendly advice, I'd love to hear it.
My first site was for our town: http://www.MyWaynesboro.com
Second site uses a free shopping cart from nopdesign: http://www.MyCanineCafe.com
Then I did a site for a local realtor: Jonathan-Dean.com, (no longer on-line as of 8/10/07)
Most recently I have been working on a site that takes almost no skill at all. It uses two free apps., one is for noah's classifieds and the other is for smf forums: http://www.TodaysHomesteading.com