Sun, Jan 22, 2012 – 21:00
A couple of my projects have gone live now! Snackstick.com, for which I set the design style, is live. Kerstin did all the implementation and a lot of the refining of the design, and we both worked on rewriting their copy text to be a little more marketing-oriented and a little less home-grown. I like [...]
Thu, Jan 19, 2012 – 21:06
You may recall that right before Christmas I got a job offer to go work at StormFrog, where I did some freelance work in 2010. I promptly (if regretfully) put in my notice at Accuraty, packed my bags and got myself a plane ticket, since they needed another designer as soon as possible. StormFrog set [...]
Tue, Dec 27, 2011 – 17:21
It was lately Christmas, as you may have noticed. My parents are back from sabbatical in Eugene, Oregon, and we celebrated the holiday nicely together with delicious food and so on. I went to some nice parties for friends and coworkers, and we all went to the UU church’s Christmas Eve service, which was very [...]
With the holiday season, I haven’t gotten around to writing about my activities in a timely manner. I had Thanksgiving with my best friend’s family and friends, which was a really fun time. We played some games, watched some football, and of course ate lots of delicious food. Accuraty also had a holiday LAN party, [...]
We got an assignment at work in October to make a new website for the Illinois Green Business Association, which went live just last week. I was excited to be assigned to this since I’m interested in working with more humanitarian projects through work, and since they’re young energetic professionals who were willing to listen [...]
Thu, Sep 29, 2011 – 18:19
I spent most of the summer working on this website for the new Champaign-Urbana area apartment listing website, RentPPL.com. The “fun” part was wrestling with the database software our client was using and retrieving the data from that so it would display correctly on the website, but we finally got the thing live. It still [...]
Tue, Sep 27, 2011 – 13:41
In August I was working on a project for work… At this point my boss pointed out it would be hard to recognize it as a lightsaber if you’re not a Star Wars geek. I was sort of disappointed at this point that the project specs changed, because I really liked the idea of using [...]
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 – 17:00
The servers at work may have gone down for an hour or two this afternoon leaving me with little to work on. So I made this doodle instead. :D I still love the stroke width tool.
Thu, Jul 14, 2011 – 13:16
Things have been quiet, not too much going on… but that’s fine with me. Had a good 4th of July with some friends, and saw my best friend’s mom perform at the local hippie grocery store. She and her duet partner sound really good! The weather has been stiflingly hot, but is cooled down for [...]
A few weeks ago I started part-time at Accuraty Solutions in downtown Champaign. It’s been going well, although many days fluctuate between “wondering what I should be doing” and “frustration with the usability of our CMS” as I learn how to help with updating our web projects. Thankfully the senior designer actually likes web programming [...]
