Portfolio Website Update

The website has been finalized for now, and is now located at www.abates.net/portfolio. The links to my resume & my first flash created site are also included. This address is a little different than the first, just because I wanted to get all the kinks worked out before I used this URL. I will be adding and/or revising my work posted on it each semester at the very least. Currently, I am enrolled in Intermediate Photography and Life Drawing studios, as well as a Art History and Spanish course. Next semester I will definitely have a Graphic Design class, such as another Typography, or Adv. Graphic Design. I am also trying to decide between the next sculpture or painting course. Any comments for improvement on it would be greatly appreciated.

Personal Webpage

Just wanted to post on here that around 10 days ago I officially launched my new personal webpage. It is www.abates.net. The purpose of getting this rolling is to have a online portfolio of my artwork so when I look for new job opportunities for design related employment, this gives potential places of employment a way to see my actual work instead of just having a resume and cover letter pleading my case. I think it also helps that just in itself creating and loading a webpage shows my knowledge of several programs, and hopefully that is obvious from visiting the site. The only part that is active now is www.abates.net/portfolio2, and it will be updated pretty much on a constant basis until I decide to go a different direction. Hope you enjoy, and feel free to send any comments, criticism, and suggestions my way.

New RAM & Vegoose baby!!

I just wanted to add that after now creating a live site, and learning some of the basics to change color, pictures, placement, and even a little stationary vs. movement, I am anxious to try more.

I am going to change my live site listing to the suggestions and comments I got in class and try to make a few more improvements when I have a moment or two. Learning this CSS is fun, but very time consuming!!

BTW, I also put new RAM chips in my laptop last Tues. before the class so I could install Adobe Creative Suite 3. I only had 512MB, and it needed 1GB, which is the most I could install that my laptop will recognize. It is over 4 yrs. old and still going... (I am crossing my fingers for another 1 or 2). So if you know anyone that wants to buy a couple of laptop 256MB RAM chips, let me know. They still work great, just not enough for me anymore.

And I am getting very excited for Vegoose coming in less than a month. There is going to be 18 people in our group going to the 2 day show in Vegas, but we are staying for 4. We are trying to come up with a common costume for all of us in the group that is non-gender bias, and isn't too hot during the day. We will be outside for around 12 hrs. for those two days in costume, so I don't want to be a sweaty man if I don't have to be. We have a couple of ideas, but could always use more. Any suggestions? This is probably going to sound stupid, but it's Halloween, so embrace your stupidness. I want to go as old school 1970's NBA players with mesh tank tops and shorts, make a logo for the jerseys, put a nickname on the back for everyone, and top it off with long tube socks (w/ the stripes), and a HUGE afro wig. Can't beat strutting around with 17 of your teammates among 10,000+ people with your shades on. We would be such rock stars.

Can you give me something that tops that?

P.S. - I got my White Stripes tickets refunded today - Still sad....

Similar Web design author

Just noticed today that the same person who designed the majority of the "official" CSS Zen Garden sites (Dave Shea) also has done the different templates for the Blogger site as well. Now I am wondering if he has done others for larger websites. Just goes to show you that since he enabled himself more time to design rather than program, surely it added to his time to make significant earnings from emerging websites. I will add to this if I find any more by him.

The other thing about this is that I think that after learning some CSS basics, I will be able to modify my own blog page (and hopefully some of my other pages) using it.

I also was curious about Dave Shea's own website, so I found his own blog page HERE. It has contact info as well, so if you come across a question that can't be answered by the book or John, this might turn out to be a valuable resource.
Check it out if you are interested.