HTML5 for Web Designers
Photo of HTML5 for Web Designers taken from the designer’s website, Jason Santa Maria
I recently read Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 for Web Designers and loved it. It is a great overview of the up and coming web standard. The light, concise tone achieved through Keith’s witty brevity and Jason Santa Maria’s pitch perfect design almost make you forget that the subject is of weighty importance for anyone involved in the web design field. HTML5 is the manifestation of the recent push towards web standards, but instead of dumbing down the markup language for the benefit of the disparate qualities of today’s browsers, many advanced features previously found only in Javascript have been brought inline.
Website Redesign
Welcome to my newly redesigned website. In the last couple weeks of school I took a look at my portfolio site and realized that it no longer properly highlighted my work so I started the process of redesigning.
Latina Health Fair 2010
For my senior “capstone” project I wanted to create a project on a subject that I care about and spread it across a variety of media. Just at this time my wife volunteered at the Latina Health Fair, a free health fair that serves the uninsured Latino community. They currently don’t have a designer or promotional campaign so I decided to create promotional materials that could be used for next year’s fair.
From Imagination to Realization
This is a paper I wrote for my Multimedia Survey class looking at the process that the world has taken in technological innovation. Read ahead and enjoy, I’ve added links where they didn’t exist in the paper version so you can see some of the stuff I’m talking about.
Software Goodness
The first program I used in when I started to learn web design was TextEdit, followed quickly by Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver was great for a while because if you knew what you wanted to do you could find a button for it and let Dreamweaver do the rest. It’s easy but it creates a lot of code that I don’t understand, and as I’ve recently found in WordPress, that much Javascript doesn’t play nice with everything. So being a Mac Guy I’ve decided to try out some simpler things. I probably would’ve tried Coda first, but recently a couple of newcomers have been making noise, CSSEdit and Espresso. They are both made by MacRabbit, a Belgian Mac developer that loves focused simplicity.
Milliseconds Website Up
After several months of work on the Milliseconds Sports Timing website it is now up and running. Milliseconds Sports TIming is a company that offers chip timing services to race directors for their competitive events. I designed the website and laid it out in HTML and then Milliseconds’ developer plugged it into their PHP database. I also developed my first WordPress Template for their Blog section. I learned a lot, including CSS rollovers which I now have an itch to use to replace all my JS rollovers on this site. Check out the website here.