When going into design, the majority of students are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. They were the kid who was always drawing and painting, the one whose parents probably covered their fridge in water colors. So, they would certainly think I’m crazy to say they should also program.
However, design is not art.
There, I said it.
One of the most common misconceptions I receive from my family is that I am in some shape or form an artist. While I do illustrations (such as the one pictured in this post – which, by the way, was inspired by this Adobe Illustrator coffee cup tutorial), I do not consider myself an artist. Granted, I am currently working toward a degree in software engineering, with design as my secondary major (and the way I put the food on the table), but this is why I have come to the conclusion that programming is an invaluable skill to any designer. Read more »
Finally!
I’m finally happy to announce that I was able to send live the code I’ve been hashing and dreaming up for the site is now live. You can see a footer now on every page, in addition to a few other minor changes to the site. Also, this past weekend we upgraded to Wordpress 2.8, and activated Akismet in order to control the spam comments we receive.
It feels very good to update the code for the site. As it stands, it was getting pretty stale, and I’m one who always tries to keep things up-to-date. Granted, we weren’t necessarily out-of-date, so much as there were many changes that I felt needed to be done, namely tweaking the comments page and adding in the footer. This site will always be an on-going project for me; as should all designer’s sites. Read more »
I am a Mac person. However, before I entered the world of Apple, I was a PC person.
I was introduced to Mac through Dre, who manages the server-side issues of this site. I wanted a computer I could do development and design work on, yet at the same time use casually.
Frankly, once you go Mac, you never honestly go back. 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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