I always love designs before they go to the higher ups.   Usually it means designs are cleaner more cutting edge and more marketing focused.   At this point designers have free reign over what it should look like and what it should sell.  The design process is slightly ignorant to the legal issues or information that needs to be supplemented that drags it more back toward center.   The greatest dream for designers right at this point is to “WOW”.  If the designer can make a statement the design will be a benchmark that will win confidence that the marketing is heading in the right direction.  If the designer and design win this crucial battle the client is  more comfortable to leave you with the freedoms you have started with and the gravity of “center” will not affect the project.   I proudly present the early designs for IBIS.

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So today I am starting my first training for a professional coding.  It is nothing great or even something super advanced. But I am really excited that I am learning the basics of AS3.  I have gotten pretty good at AS2 and for some reason every time I have tried to pick up AS3 I have had issues. It might be the fact that I might have missed some small thing back when I should have learned code or it could be that the Code is so close but so radically different in the more basic of elements.  I am truly excited to move on considering I have learned about many of the new features that this language has.  So wish me luck on my first training. I hope I am not too bored.

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