small victories

Having a busy life can be so frustrating! I try my best to take care of things right away, but when difficulties arise, I only have so much time (during business hours) and energy before I have to move on.

Case in point: Two full months ago I decided I would figure out how to put a FAVICON on the website at work and on a friends I was working on... so, work said they didn't trust the code I had provided (I got it from a forum; perfectly valid). They have to be concerned for security, so understanding this, I decided I would put one on my site and prove that it was safe. When I tried to log in via ftp to do this, I was locked out of my web-hosting account. Many password resets later I still couldn't get in. This must have gone on for at least a week, when I had to abandon it for more pressing things. My friends had another friend put theirs on their site; mine (and work's ) were still default... until tonight! Yay for perseverance:) It was such a small, simple task and for life and technology to join forces to keep me from my goal... not cool. I can't believe how many dashboards my web-hosting co. has for my one tiny, tiny site... that was most of the battle. I finally found where my hosting log-in was located (and it wasn't very intuitive).

This just proves that I don't give up that easily(!!!!) Ha!

www.eclecticalchemie.com

my crazy resumé!

I have gone live with my site:) I am going to buy my business licence on Tuesday... and try to get my business cards ordered this weekend. I also need to put together a leave-behind portfolio (for real design jobs) and that can be my "promo" until I get my home computer up and running.

I am going to try to get some of my professional work together for an online portfolio; just a simple picassa slideshow, but it will be faster then doing it properly; my perfectionism will take over when it comes to doing the actual web pages and the process will get very complicated, I'm sure!

check it out, now!

Colleen said I could give this link out... so if you want to see what I've done so far, click here! It is a work in progress...like everything.

I think I am going to make more of a portal out of the default page and move all the "about me" stuff onto an "about me" page. But for now, to get it in for grades this is where it will stay. I am so excited:) I thought it would take me a long time to get my own site up and now all I have to do is get my url and choose a web hosting service (I've heard webhotel.com is good and cheap, but godaddy.com seems to have some good packages... I think I'll research it a bit more).

my website (?!!)

I'm sooooo excited:) My website will be done in just a couple of months! It has been years in the coming... I am finally taking a class at UAS and learning a lot and getting a lot out of it. Colleen Mckenna is really great and knows her stuff.

Here are two screen shots; I will post the link when I get them all done and choose a web server. I am not a flowery person, so I'm sure this site will change when I get tired of the flowers. The flowers are from a sketch I did in 2006, so maybe I will change it up with another sketch that I will develop and then I can do that every 6 months or a year. Yes, it will be a site with an identity crisis... But the navigation and content will stay consistent (I know not to alienate people... but I've got "itchy designer" syndrome.

I'm also just putting my picassa.com slideshow up until I can find the time to do a really well designed flash gallery. I could do a poorly designed one using PhotoShop, but I would rather take the time and get it right... So, I'm cheating for now.