Getting Ready for Fall Semester
Posted by MrG | Filed under Editorial
I’ve been barely working recently. I took the last week and hung out with my son (and played some Farmville over at Facebook). I am doing some classes for my degree and two Digital Media classes. I am excited by both of the DM classes and my interest is peaked with my GE requirements. I hope this is a great semester.
Through this semester I will be working on offering Web Design Classes for a small fee hosted here my site. The classes will take you from basic HTML all the way up through designing your own personal Word Press site. Topics covered will include:
- HTML and XHTML
- CSS
- php
- mySQL
- Designing for the web (Illustrator and Photoshop)
- JavaScript and JQuery
- Customizing Word Press, Joomla and Drupal
I’ll also be blogging my classes so keep an eye out for that. Hope you all had a great summer! It’s time to get back to work. As always, I am available here on my blog for tech questions and I’ll be at the CTC lab M,T,W and F mornings.
MrGonz Productions on the Move
Posted by MrG | Filed under Editorial
Lazy? No. I have been working on a lot of things recently.
- Finished up Hell I Feel website. Well, for the most part: The media player isn’t populating on every page–on the bug hunt!
- Worked on my brother’s blog. What I mean is of course I worked on the back end but I have also started contributing a weekly submission there. Called Things for Thinkers which consists of a collection of links that I came across during the week. It started out as just the links, but now I’m adding some color commentary as well. It’s been fun to help my brother out and he’s really refocused his blogging. Make sure to check his blog out.
- I have been spending a lot of time learning Adobe After Effects. I have been making a number of test reels and other sample projects. You can checkout a reel below.
- I found a great flat file CMS that doesn’t use mySQL. GetSimple is a great barebones CMS that works on XML and php. It’s relatively easy to get your head around (as compared to WordPress and Drupal) and makes a great CMS for small websites that don’t need a blog. I suggest you check it out.
- GetSimple is a nice segue for announcing that MrGonz Productions is finally up and running! Gone is the grey “Coming Soon” page, replaced by a fledgling site (powered by GS). You will find most of my motion graphics tests and the like there. Go by an check it out!
- Finally getting the favicon thing down. I know it is a simple thing, but I had trouble creating the .ico file type. I had used some plug-in for Photoshop and it just didn’t work. I finally gave up and used this website to generated the correct file type.
Well, that’s it for now. I am getting ready for school and working hard on my resume. I have given my self until October to get my resume all together.