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A little more about this site

Over the years, this site has undergone many changes. I’ve designed, redesigned, cleared the blog posts and even recently moved the posts over to tumblr, and the constant changes are likely to end.

Why do I do this?

Because I am passionate about refining my craft, that is web design and development. I love to read up on the newest trends in this field. I bought this web space to serve as my playground so I can experiment with new ideas before pushing them out live.

By day, I work for a large educational institution and we need to use stable code practices because we need our stuff to work. In my spare time I work with the unstable stuff to see if I might be able to suggest changes to our way of doing things to stay on the cutting edge.

So reader be warned, when inspiration strikes this website often gets a new layer of paint.

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Fun with Fireworks: Sticky Note As a web designer, I occasionally try to exercise my graphic design skills. First to be clear, I am not a graphic designer. Almost all designers get to play with toys like Photoshop, unfortunately, I don’t own a copy so I make do with Fireworks. I found this tutorial at Six Things. I found the tutorial pretty easy to follow for someone graphically challenged like me. I will definetely give the other ones a shot in hopes of figuring out the core concepts of Fireworks. Lastly, I wanted to demo a font I recently downloaded.

Fun with Fireworks: Sticky Note

As a web designer, I occasionally try to exercise my graphic design skills. First to be clear, I am not a graphic designer. Almost all designers get to play with toys like Photoshop, unfortunately, I don’t own a copy so I make do with Fireworks. I found this tutorial at Six Things. I found the tutorial pretty easy to follow for someone graphically challenged like me. I will definetely give the other ones a shot in hopes of figuring out the core concepts of Fireworks. Lastly, I wanted to demo a font I recently downloaded.