Posted on February 22, 2010
I recently started a project for a jewelry artist. Basically a portfolio site with events, a bio, and a thumbnail gallery.
I knew the majority of her visitors wouldn't be very tech savvy, but I may have still over estimated their abilities. The site has a page with a thumbnail gallery of her work, you click a thumbnail and through jquery the photo enlarges to a full view. Unfortunantly the client came to me and said
Posted on January 12, 2010
Just getting started in any career field can be very difficult. Employers are looking for individuals with experience, Clients want someone who has a firm grasp of the job, so on and so forth. Where does one start? This is the predicament I'm in right now. I'm finishing up my degree in interactive media and am ready to jump head first into designing websites, developing online content, and just getting going in this career field.
Posted on December 24, 2009
I recently created a game that needed a random number generator. Searching the internet, I found many ways to create one. Some seemed overly complicated, but I came across this and it seems to work perfectly, at least for the application I used it in. What I was trying to do was create random behavior for the computer AI when fighting the human player. The way this works is I created a movie clip with all the monster's animations for his different behaviors. so from from
Posted on September 30, 2009
I started doing some side research on my own about php. What I found so far is, PHP is installed on over 20 million websites and 1 million web servers. It is a server side scripting language for making dynamic and interactive Web pages. It's used for controling databases such as MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, Generic ODBC. PHP files can contain text, HTML tags and scripts and it's files are returned to the browser as plain HTML.
PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
Posted on September 27, 2009
I looked into copyright laws concerning web designers and artists in general and I think my head might explode from reading too much legalese. But it seems to me, the best thing an artist can do is retain ownership of their art even if it is created for someone else. When we as designers create a site or piece of art for a client, we should hold on to the copyright for said idea. This way if our idea becomes a billion dollar piece of branding that a company uses, we're entitled to a piece of the pie. Designing a site and elements for a site, web designers should keep ownership of almost everything such as php pages, javascript, pngs, etc. this
