Web 120: Web Authoring II
Welcome to my page, and the odd little world within...
I'm taking Web Authoring II and Typography this quarter. My interest is web design and project management. I do enjoy hand-coding and knowing I could do a website armed with just a rusty text editor and a dream. I'm already designing web sites and remodels of really creaky web sites, and aiming to make a living at it. My focus this quarter is a killer portfolio site leading to paying projects.
Some of my projects so far:
Get Lost Magazine - online magazine since 1999, making a pittance in AdSense since 2003 (yes, I consider that some kind of victory.) If you look at the source code of the old archive pages you'll see the tragic remnants of the ignorant application of PageMill. It's gnarly.
This Offbeat Life - My attempt to write what I might put in an extended column or blog, provide useful reviews of interesting things, and monetize things somewhat. Currently converting it to Wordpress site, re-styling the template to more closely resemble the content-dense pages of yore.)
New Economy Cooking - My mom's cooking website. Excellent and yummy content, needs some kind of WordPress treatment for reader interaction. Also. I need a solution for "inadequate or not enough" traffic. (Thanks, Brooke Shields, for dignifying possibly the most insulting explanation for paucity that a pharmaceutical company ever made someone say on television. "Inadequate? Does that mean, like, not enough? Oh, whew, thanks, Brooke!")
Backpacking by Bus - Dave McBee's site, and my Spring 2009 project from Web110. Quite proud of the rollover menu and of course the insanely interesting content.