Posted on December 20th, 2003 in site news and
meaning building 2004 is finally at a point where I feel comfortable bringing the site quietly on-line, which means I’ve added new projects (see the practice section) and retooled a few of the older projects as well; the remaining projects will come soon enough. The foto gallery will be on-line sometime after the holidays (not sure yet what format it will assume), as will a good many of my writings from the past few years, to be indexed in the texts section of the site – not that anyone might want to read them, BUT… Most exciting for me is the implementation of Movable Type’s most excellent weblog application – very powerful and very customizable. I’m sure this blog will evolve over time as I discover the full potential of the application etc etc.
As far as design methodology, this site embodies my recent ascent, or descent, into the world of web standards and css-based design. Much insight was gained on web standards and css from A List Apart, Jeffrey Zeldman, and Stop Design, to name a few. I’ve opted for an xhtml-transitional framework with reliance on a main structural table for each page layout (i.e. this is not pure css positioning). I’ve also not yet validated my code with W3C – but I will soon. If anyone out there notices any wierdness in terms of bugs, broken links, or whatever, please drop me a line – but I think I’m good to go in most of the modern browsers.
As far as the real work of this site, some new projects are in the initial stages and will be moving forward after the new year. Particularly interesting is a community design competition for a vacant lot in our neighborhood that J. Meredith Warner and I are organizing in cooperation with the Champaign County Historical Museum – more to come later.
Enjoy.
Posted on October 14th, 2003 in site news and
boxwith.com is now online. this is a home for my freelance web design thing-a-ma-jig. it’s total css-based design and almost completely cross-browser compatible (bugs are still being worked out in netscape).
hope to have a new version of this site underway soon. it never ends, does it?
Posted on July 13th, 2003 in site news and
meaning building gets a little freshen-up – just enough to tide one over until a full revision may occur.
the foto (a destra) hopefully gives one an introductory impression of the summer landscape of central illinois. the day on which this foto was taken was particularly crisp, the leaves of the corn stalks gleaming like silver with each twitch in the wind.
I’ve been neglecting the ol’ web log as of late. here’s an attempt to rekindle some kind of regular engagement with this particular mode of writing, but I’ll not expect anyone “in the world” to read it. rather, I’ll shift my focus inward. perhaps I can return to some semblance of a discipline of writing: ebullient love poems, misguided and misinformed political rants, delusional conversations with YOU (hello!), notes for ten-minute tele-dramas, and the like.
Posted on December 8th, 2002 in site news and
hooray hooray. in the eleventh hour, eleanor eichenbaum and I were able to secure a space in which to hold an end-of-the-road exhibition of our graduate work; also showing will be good friends and interdisciplinaries, victor hernandez and hillary procknow. we’ve titled the show consequential data, meaning the residue of our research and work at the university.
so, next saturday, december 14 from 7 – 10 pm will be the time. click the image to the left for more info and directions to the space, which is a really excellent rehabbed warehouse at penn field center in south austin.
hope to see many of you there…
Posted on November 19th, 2002 in site news and
meaning_building gets an update…
after some real frustration with the current state of graphic design (esp. on the web), I’ve settled down a bit and managed a redesign of my sitepartly inspired (mostly inspired?) by kaz’s vision for manyfold, partly inspired by my impending doom as an ex-graduate student. temporarily exiled from the academy, one feels compelled to present oneself to the world in the most attractive way that one can. ha!
so, the blog. hmmm. a friend said that she thought the blog was cool because it allows friends and family far and wide to check up on you periodically. and speaking of “periodical”, kaz discovered that you can apply for an ISSN number for your weblog, thus placing it in the worldwide standardized encyclopedia of periodicals. we’ll see about that… (get your own free blog from blogger) I’m not very familiar with the subculture which centers around the practice of “blogging”in fact, I don’t think I would read a blog that wasn’t written by a friend. that said, dear reader, if you are not a friend, thanks for you interest and time; and, by the way, don’t you have something better to do?
like I said, I’m just a few weeks away from graduating and I expect to have quite a lot of free time ahead of me. many projects to be undertaken, many ideas to investigate and then share via this particular medium. I hope to soon develop my thesis work into some form of web-based resource and on-going research project (that thesis work has only just begun), etc etc…
