I have been working on a business card for a few days. A project I need to finish for a beauty therapist. Her name is Aje which is Nigerian and means surrounded by wealth. I designed a logo for her company and a catch phrase which will be: ‘Surround Yourself By Natures Wealth’. I also have to design a brochure/price list. Working on that.
I finally installed CS2 but found out that the latest FP Filters don’t work any longer and I will be forced to buy them or use them in Photoshop 7.0 [don’t mind buying them, it’s just a bit expensive at the moment; about £200,-]… Perhaps I should buy one a month or so [there are about 20 available] but I reckon I’m too impatient and will buy the lot at some point when I don’t care about the money.
A. bought me 2Gb of memory for xMas which made my G5 speedy! It’s cool to use a fast machine like this especially if you have five apps open at the same time… We are both still not feeling well. A. stayed home Thursday and Friday, he has a high fever and I reckon I passed the bug on to him. I’m feeling a lot better but still not a 100%. We didn’t get out of the house all week and we’ll have to tonight because we’re running out of food.
Got a very long letter in from Barbara, thanks for that, loved reading your email; I will reply this weekend! Also got a letter in from my aunt yesterday, which is probably a birthday card so I won’t open it yet. I received another card from my brother telling us he moved house, will send him a card back, he’s got a cute little house, well… that’s what I gather from the picture on the card.
I’ll be working on the brochure next couple of days and then I’ll be working on my own business website again because that has been dormant for too long now, I really need to get up to speed and finish this project. It’s January… and I want to advertise myself out there, since I feel I’m missing out on opportunities. I want to see what I’m worth in the English job market…
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Quicky
Just a quickie before I shoot off to bed. The rowing machine was out of stock unfortunately and I’m eager to get it in, so is A.. Hopefully it will be delivered somewhere this week. I’ve been working on my website and doing quite well if I might say so. There is a lot of progress although you won’t be able to see it straight away. It takes some time to sort out things, adjust things or design things and sometimes it’s not as easy as you think it is.
I ran into a problem today which left me thinking and I have not yet found a solution. It’s the navigation, I’ve put everything inside a movieclip which is running on the main time line but is now accessed through a script. So if you click the comb that I mentioned earlier the action will be triggered by a script. Which is all fine but I do need some mouseovers and in order to make those work on the main time line I will have to adjust the way I’ve designed it now. It basically means I need to think about a structure to work my way around the script to make the buttons work.
Hectic stuff but I will find a solution. Once that’s done things will be quick and neat and the only time consuming part will be my portfolio. There are many ways to show my stuff but I want it to be big enough most of all to be judged on a monitor by people who will have to have a good look at it. This is the toughest part since it is quite difficult to achieve the perfect result. I have had a look at different websites just to see how they solve this problem and so far I am not satisfied with the outcome.
I did find some cool scripts that make it all “Flashy” and interesting to look at but integrating this with the actual purpose of the portfolio is something that calls for attention. I will probably wait with this until most of the website has been done so I will have time to think about it while working on my other stuff… If I seem distracted or not replying to emails straight away you’ll know what is keeping me busy in my head. Tomorrow I will reply to a few first, that’s a promise!
For now; sweet dreams, I need to log off and listen to A.’s new song that he has composed on his computer [he needs a G5 like mine *grin*]… Talk soon!