just a little peek into the industry i work in. if you want to know what i’m all about, you have to watch these videos.
Andy Clarke on Web Layout from Jeffrey Zeldman on Vimeo.
Eric Meyer on generated content (An Event Apart New Orleans 2008) from Jeffrey Zeldman on Vimeo.
the entire thing should probably be read if you want to get the full punk effect. i especially love how i continually blame the problem on user error. seriously. pay attention in school people. and be sure you know the person you’re about to argue with. i invented php, son.
just finished a nice little ratings plugin for my gallery. please give some of my photos a few ratings if you have time.
http://underattacker.com/gallery/
i have a few more things to do with the gallery. would’ve been nice to set it up as a sort of flickr site for cellphone images, but i’ll just leave it as a personal cellphone gallery. you’ll notice i’m uploading a lot of my earlier cellphone photos from this summer, but once those are up and out of the way, i will start uploading more current fall photos from the cellphone.
just a quick little preview for those of you who read my blog:
http://www.underattacker.com/gallery
still a little bit of work being done to it. mainly text fixes and tracking. things like if you click on a category, the category title pops up in big white letters. things like adding the costi notra network badge on the corner. perhaps adding the functionality for commenting photos. stuff like that. give me a few more days and this thing should be functioning @ 100%!
calm down homie. whatever it is, it’s probably YOUR problem. so you can wait all you want for me to care, but you’ll just be wasting your time.
seriously, you’re as subtle as a jackhammer. you think i don’t hear you? you think you can talk all that stuff behind my back and i won’t find out? and why am i even venting about this? it’s such a miniscule thing that i don’t even know why you’re being so pissy. why don’t you just man up and tell me straight to my face what’s bothering you? thought you were enough of a friend to do that.
(but don’t worry friends, love you all! don’t mind this joker and his noise)
is currently undergoing a full redesign and recode, mostly because it takes so freaking long to load. who knows how much business i’ve lost because my concept one-page portfolio? my “bounce rate” was so bad and i’m 100% convinced it was because of the loading times. if i were a client, i’d close out on a page that seemed “frozen” too.
well i decided to do a bit of cleaning up. took out the nasty bits and pieces that were hardly used on the portfolio. the contact form, some of the more undesireable designs that i didn’t find too appealing. the “about me”. the intro message. this cut loading times almost in half.
by doing this, i’ve also tripled the amount of emails that come into my inbox regarding freelance projects and interviews. looks like vacation will be extended for now. =)
i’m excited to start up a new workflow for freelance and other code-related work.
i was talking to a friend of mine and after telling her all about the situation about work being busy and whatevs, she mentioned that i always seemed to be busy with work.
then i started reading a few blogs back from when i started working fulltime and saw this
i’ve gotten the chance to reevaluate my friendships and rearrange the order. i finally decided to just ditch the drama in my life and stay busy. busy busy busy. i couldn’t be happier right now. for the past few weeks, i’ve been able to keep those close to my heart by my side. it’s a good feeling when you know which people you can rely on and which people you can call a friend or not. i highly recommend ditching the drama in your life. ditching the bad associations and the hatred. just forget them and move on with your life..
