So you will only find this funny if you are some how a designer but It made me laugh. So it is now part of my grab bag of humor.

So I am not a great coder. But I do love puzzles. I have no formal training all I know is what I have gotten from the web and in books. I am one of those rare people who can read a computer manual and run with it. I have touched a lot of different languages and have mastered none. At my job at Merrick Towle I am sort of the go-to-guy to solve problems and most of the time I don’t know the answer but I am good at looking for them, and I often come back with the problem solved. I am not super smart but I am clever and I often have the attitude that nothing seems too hard to overcome if you break it down to small enough parts. I have designed over a dozen websites, and countless kiosks and have been working in interactive professional now for 2 years.

My first Kiosk was done in Shock wave for my Senior Thesis at University of the Arts. I remember spending hours at Barnes and Noble reading the Director Bible (because I didn’t have the money to buy it and take it home.) As my portfolio I made and RPG using my art during the same year (2001). Now I am working with Flash and Learning AS3. I touch on ASP with my job and now dabble with PHP because of my own site. I love code I don’t know why but it is fun to make things come to life.

This whole section is just a brain dump. Cool things I have learned, Cool thing I have found, or bits of code I think I would love to canibalize later.

I love Tech, and I also love that so much information is all online. For the design of my site I wanted to go for a very clean design that can be modified so the different sections will have a header that will change with the section you are in considering I am going to have multiple threads some all about a single book. So I looking into Conditional Tags in WordPress and I find the Codex files from WordPress.org are very useful.

Here is what I found about the conditional tags that I will use to alter the header of this theme when it is is different sections.

Conditional Tags

Zen Photo and Word Press.

I know I am not doing any thing new, but I am excited to have this put together.  Word Press and Zen Photo are two great pieces of Tech.  I can now blog about my illustrations and and have great gallery’s for them. Now the next level is going to be making a templates to bring the two under the same motif. Oh well, one step at a time.

Matt

Watier Publication Blog is now taking its first steps.
This is my first post for the new site for Matt Watier / Watier Publications which is under the umbrella of Watier Creative.  Watier Creative is a family colaboration with my mom being the brains in the money department, my sister being a brillant marketer & SEO expert, my father being a fantastic Storyteller, and me being pretty damn good at bringing things to life on a page. I hope you agree and you like what you will see.

What you can expect out of this blog.

• Post of Past & Current Illustrations from my night job
• Books and Publication Updates from my night job
• Design Challenges I have overcome in my day job
• New Web Designs from my day job
• Cool Links and information that is useful
• Shout outs to things that are cool and people who are great.