So, I’ve recently begun to work in an office once again, as opposed from home.

I can’t complain. In many ways I prefer to work in an office; instead of having to shoot off emails, for the most part I can just lean over to the next office and say whatever I need, request whatever I need, et cetera, in addition to being able to see things as they happen or from the other person’s screen. Read more »

Not many people put CSS and programming into a similar category. After all, CSS is more of an interface language; it’s not going to return a value, or compare two variables.

The earliest beginnings of CSS themselves come from the desire of designers to have a separate language in order to declare certain properties for elements in their designs. The original plan for it was for it to appear like this:

@H1 fo(fa=he,si=32,we=bo) ve(be=1,af=2)

A man by the name of Robert Raisch suggested this syntax. Hard to read? That’s what I thought when I first saw it – but essentially, it is declaring the very same thing as this snippet:
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I will begin by stating that jQuery has certainly made everyone’s life much, much easier. Specifically, I find that I enjoy the toggle function.

You see the little RSS icon on my bar over there? You know, the orange square. Click it – I dare you. See how nice and easy that text appears? Well, you can add a nice, easy, and cute RSS feed to your own site as well.

All it takes is a little bit of imagination, a few snippets of code, and an even smaller amount of jQuery. Read more »

I am the sole owner of BeLink’d, a graphics and web design studio or site, whichever you wish to call it. As I stated while making the About page, I’m generally the one who runs things around here.

BeLink’d is not an agency. It is a single freelance artist.

I program. I design. I draw. Dre helps out and I usually make Sam into my content slave, but this is generally a one-person show, as are most freelance sites.

Dre and I do work as a team on some projects, but for the most part, I do as much of the heavy-lifting as I can. It has helped me develop and grow at a remarkably fast rate as a designer; one of the things I have always emphasized is continuous growth, and BeLink’d is the outcome of my own continuous growth.

And frankly, through design and programming, I found a passion, something that I could really grab onto and hold. To be completely honest with you, I love what I do and I hope to always do what I love.

I’m a student, I’m a designer, I’m a bird mom, I’m an equestrian, I’m a writer, and I’m quite a lot of other things. But I hope that through my efforts, I will always be able to make this site grow and flourish, and use it to create what contribution I might to the design community as a whole.

What are your passions? Leave a blurp – I find it interesting to hear what other people identify themselves as.

Rinir is one of the major characters in an allegory which I wrote during high school, and in order to become more accustomed to what was new with Adobe Photoshop CS4, I chose to do a digital painting portrait of Rinir. Now, granted, I haven’t actually done any digital painting or sketching in quite a while, so a few things are off – namely, her eyes are a tad large and her lips a tad small, but overall I view this piece as a “success”.

The background was actually done in Illustrator; I wanted something kind of mystical, and I think that I accomplished just that.

There was no model used for this picture (I rarely use models to draw), but I have enabled print ordering on the DeviantArt page for this piece (the image in this post links directly to the DeviantArt post – I prefer to add these to my DeviantArt gallery for much easier handling of images, ability to produce prints, as well as networking benefits).

Enjoy!

[edit] For reasons unknown, the image link is currently not showing. Thus, this link should bring you to the image page: View the digital painting