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Tot's jots: Yee ha!
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OK - after falling off the blogging planet for a while, I've returned. I've been busy in the new job, upskilling. In many areas but I've reached a point where, for sanity's sake if nothing else, I need some non-work projects. I haven't done much since creating a football -themed Flash flip card memory game for my nephew last year (to practice ActionScript. I'm looking for a few different things to occupy me, so I don't. I was tempted to use this as a project to check out HTML5/ CSS. 10 March, 2011 08:57.
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Tot's jots: Loads of new stuff!
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Loads of new stuff! Lots of new stuff since my last post - new job, new hair do and I've been playing with lots of new toys and tricks! So I'm now working as a Media Developer in an eLearning team which I've very excited about. In the last 2 weeks I've used almost every program in the Adobe Master suite, built a new website, done a bit of film editing, thrown a bit of javascript around in Adobe Acrobat and started playing with the new bits and bobs in CS5! Happy as a pig in mud :-). Loads of new stuff!
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Tot's jots: Photoshop notes
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I am the post-it note queen. Or I was anyway, before my recent migration to the world of smart phones. I have a habit of writing production notes around my desk on post-its, esp for things I don't do EVERY day, so I don't forget. I find I'm not always at work when I'm doign these sorts of things so I thought I'd post it here for my reference. Photoshop notes - photo retouching. Make the layer overlay or soft light. Adjust opacity of layer or erase where not needed. Erase everywhere it doesn't need to be.
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Tot's jots: May 2010
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Just read an article on the Dunning-Kruger Effect. As the author Inchauste. Explains "As you grow at that skill, you begin to better evaluate your skills. Again, pretty logical reasoning here. If you know more about something, you know more about what you are doing wrong and how to improve it". Therefore if you don't know much i.e. you're unconsciously. Incompetent, you won't be able to assess yourself properly and are likely to overestimate how awesome you are. So in that sense being. CSS3, Client quest...
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Tot's jots: Typeface and Inspiration
http://totsjots.blogspot.com/2010/05/typeface-and-inspiration.html
I consider myself a greenhorn in terms of design and the web (the more I learn, the more I realise I don't know! In an effort to see what people are doing in terms of best practice and common standards, I have been known to have a scan through an inspiration gallery to try to glean as much, from what someone has deemed to the the best of the best. The author of the article Inspiration Kills. Fonts, I came across this lovely reference called Learn: Anatomy of a Typeface. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Tot's jots: February 2010
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More on outdated browsers. So, I'm hoping either work is going to upgrade their browser, or I find new work soon. Http:/ arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/02/youtube-to-kill-ie6-support-on-march-13.ars. YouTube is joining Google (and many other sites) in shunning IE6. Good news from a designer POV (I really like the idea of IE6 disappearing and not ever having to muck about tweaking/setting up separate IE style sheets) but more narky banners for IE6 users, arrgghh! BIG pet hate of mine. What I'd prefer...
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Planet J@net: October 2008
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008. OK, clearly haven't done anything in the last couple of months on this (which I feel quite bad about). Have been sucked into the animated world of Flash. Its lots of fun actually, but really time consuming. Basic actionscript ok. Drawing everything in Flash - challenging. Will ge back to this soon, I swear. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The culmination of my thoughts, particularly in relation to my forage through code. View my complete profile. Smashing mag 750 free icons!
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Planet J@net: October 2011
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011. This is a presentation I found when I was originally researching a few months back that was great in terms of thinkign about design for not just mobile but web going forward http:/ www.slideshare.net/bryanrieger/rethinking-the-mobile-web-by-yiibu. It would be very interesting to see how much the stats have changed in the last year. It was from that presentation I found the dconstruct 2010 website which I quite liked. It used the Less/SASS framework. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Planet J@net: June 2009
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Friday, June 26, 2009. Compliant code for external links opening in a new browser window. Http:/ www.sitepoint.com/article/standards-compliant-world/3/. Just wanted to log this somewhere. Although I'm using Transitional XHTML. Net, I'd still like to be as strict as possible re standards.best to learn the hard way then bend the rules when I need to. Re the live Launch into Fitness site - I've had a lot of problems since launch in January with 000 webhost. Aren't pointing to them but I've triple. View my c...
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Planet J@net: Tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak. So I've been stuffing around with small tweaks and not really getting anywhere (it feels that way anyhow.). I reworked the right hand column sign up button using the lessons I learned from http:/ learnola.com/2008/10/28/css-tutorial-roll-over-button/. And used a pre. Loaded hover state image. It's quite cool except I got hung up on making the button look buttony. Com icons and borrowed an arrow. Now I have to work out how to attribute it. Browser tem...