Category: design

01/09/06 06:37 - 36ºF - ID#32447

When Print makers Become Web designers

I know I will get a bunch of slack for this but print makers are notoriously bad web designers in my opinion. There have been a few exceptional cases that I have met, but generally, when a print design company tries to go web design, it usually looks like wrong. They almost always have a really beautiful giant splash graphic and thats where the magic ends. It's no longer just a picture that you put on the web, it's a living interactive interface.

Right now I am working on Ride for Roswell at work. You can look at last year's website to get an idea of where it is going

It is designed by Flynn and Friend's, a company in buffalo

. I decided to look up their firm on the net after seeing the CD I am supposed to work with had their name on it. The paradigm is so old, i received some photoshop pictures and it is supposed to become a web site.

If you look at the non-web media design portfolio on their website, it looks pretty nice. But the web deisgn stuff looks

really mediocre, borderline lame. I guess the

was interersting.

I think it is the result of print based web designers relying too heavily on photoshop. It's all still a throwback to when the web was all slice up tables based layout. My question is how much do they get paid for the web site design, when I am doing the coding here at Roswell and someone else enters in the data.

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Category: food

01/09/06 03:22 - 37ºF - ID#32446

wingdings for lunch

Today's special atw work was those yummy wingdings. I knew this because I saw it on th mobile app I made for work where it reports today's specials. I guess it worked for me. Yum!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: web

01/08/06 02:27 - 35ºF - ID#32445

Artvoice Geek Meet

So, I finally spoke with Jamie Moses and I can make some time now that most everything else is out of the way. We are going to meet on Tuesday night to talk about the Geek Meet and some other stuff. Then on the 16th maybe I will move the server. It is mostly set up and whatever doesn't work atthat point can be set up remotely afterwards. I think we will gain a lot of improvement in what we can offer. Especially because we will go from having 6GB (around 4285.71 floppy disks) worth of space to around 400GB (around 285,714.29 floppy disk) worth of space. Then we can start having more video and audio features.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: hair

01/07/06 10:49 - 29ºF - ID#32444

Haircut Pics

Wow I really let my hair grow long this time.

Afterwards, (e:lilho) and I played with the baby. I bought her a new stocking to play in. She loves it. At some point (e:lilho) started to turn into a squirrel.

She played iwth it so much she started to become a squirrel.

(e:lilho) was playing with my phone and pulled out the memory chip. It is really tiny. She asked me how big it was and I said 1 gigabyte. Then she said how big is that so I said ~1,000 megabytes. Then she asked me how big that was in floppy disks. I can't remember the last time someone asked me how big something was in floppy disks. I almost forgot they existed. Anyways, It is also around ~1000 floppy disks although prob some less because I think that floopy disks were 1.4 MB each.

We saw barbie at target. She had a special message for everyone.

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

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Category: photos

01/07/06 10:37 - 29ºF - ID#32443

So many Pic

I decided to clean out my phone of pics that hadn't made it to my journal yet.

We went shopping the other day at the Blvd mall but I forgot to post these pics. The mall looks really different than I rememebr it. What surprises me most is that ever other stand/store is a front for a mobile phone carrier. Some even have mutliple shops which seems so weird to me.

They also have polish water. What the hell is polish water and is it Polish like the nationality or polish like the nail enhancer. I hope it's the first one, maybe. It reality it sounds like a code name for Vodka. (e:matthew) says he thinks he heard Vodka refered to that way before.

The tree came down and with it all the ornaments. I took so many pictures of them for some reason.

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Category: errands

01/07/06 05:22 - 29ºF - ID#32442

On The Go

Today I went with (e:mike), (e:lilho), (e:mathhew) and (e:terry) to run some errands. It is supposed to end in my haircut after we buy clippers. I think I am going to celebrate shaving and haircutting with dressing up and going out somewhere.

My hair has gotten so crazy, unfortunately, (e:lilho) has started drinking with our dinnr at Gabriels gate so I hope my haircut comes out. Who wrote that song about never taking acid and cutting your hair? I think they same think should apply to letting your barber get drunk before the cut.

I bought (e:mike) his christmas gift circus tickets. It cost about $200 for two tickets. Holy crap. I hope it's good. We are in a great location. We turned down floor tickets for the same price because I didn't want look up the whole time.

I got to test of out my work project and estrip on a blackberry. They both worked good. I like the keyboard on the blackberry but I still think it needs a cam.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

01/07/06 02:00 - 28ºF - ID#32441

Dinner At Betty's

Last night (e:terry), (e:lilho) and I headed over to Betty's on Virginia. The food was delicious. I had lamb chops, (e:lilho) had paella and terry had some overwhelmingly lentil vegetarian thing.

We had clams casino for an appetizer. They were so freakin' yummy. I would suggest the place to vegetrian and meat eaters alike.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: health

01/06/06 07:16 - 22ºF - ID#32440

My Toe Is So Fucked Up

So my toe looks worse than ever although it feels much better. Unfortunately, I have one more month before my health insurance starts.
Can someone tell me (maybe you know Jenks) if it is normal for a toe to start looking worse, even if it begins to feel a little better. It is making walking tricky because it is fatter than the other toes now and gets in the way.

I just want to be able to dance again.

Today was a better day at work. I built lots of cool stuff.

I found out the reason that code looked so messed up is not just that the users were using an online wysiwyg editor but that they were pasting into it from word. What a nightmare this is gonna be.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

01/06/06 12:21 - 31ºF - ID#32439

Theme Editor

I finally finished the bulk of my online theme editor for the site. Maybe it will make me make more themes. Either way I am glad that all the data entry is over.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: school

01/05/06 09:15 - 33ºF - ID#32438

Monkat Return

I had to update the monkat model for josephine [search]josephine[/search] <-- why does no one else use these search links. Maybe I need a new person to help me figure out how to help people figure out how to use stuff . I like it best in green as I mentioned before.

And what about the google maps tag (MAP TO: 444%20LINWOOD%20AVENUE)

Or the wikipedia tag (WIKIPEDIA - virtual reality)