I got a job at staples that pays crap. So I’m busy most of the time and its hard for me to do much of anything lately. I’m looking for another job though will see what happens.

I have a few designs coming up to put in my portfolio.  Since starting work at Staples I haven’t really had time to do any site promotion. SUCKS! I wanted this to be a good and popular web site with in a few months of opening it. Its just a drag now.

Oh well. I’ll get to doing something with this at some point.

These are some really basic tips that a lot of people forget about when making a website. Fallow these and I’m sure you’ll have a great website.

• Check the links through our your website when messing with coding. Make sure images load right, make sure that if a link goes to where it should go to and doesn’t give you an error page.
• Be careful with what colours you use. Blinding green most likely isn’t the best for your website unless its in a small does.
• Always offer your visitors a little something you have your normal content but little tutorials or goodies are a good way to keep people coming back.
• Try your best to type and spell well. No one is perfect I make spelling mistakes all the time but don’t use “u” and “y” on your website.
• Always make sure layouts line up properly. I know working in IE is horrible but try to get it close as possible.
• Make sure if you have music that its not auto play many people (including myself) will close out a site if it starts to play music.
• Use the proper tags for your site. Don’t use div’s or paragraphs to make a header use the header tag. h1, h2, etc.
• Make the navigation as simple as possible. Don’t make it so the visitor has to hunt for your brushes or textures. More than three clicks to get to a layout, avatar, or tutorial is way to much.
• Minimize javascript yes its good to have for a few enhancements but don’t use so many it bogs down the page.

Just a few tips for you to fallow.

I got some of my gallery up today :3 I have to sift through some of my old work and pick out some of my other favorites for it though. Next I’ll be working on the visitors page it’ll have a lot of goodies for you guys.

Open up your version of adobe photoshop I’m using 7. Look at your layers window. Do you see the word path? If not go to window path and check it.

Now open up a canvas. 500 pixels by 500 pixels will work. Then click the path tab and click the new layer button. Click back on to the layers tab.

Find the pen tool.

Make three clicks with the pen tool.

After this go to your pen tool and change it to the converter point tool.

Click on the anchors (the little boxes that show where your clicks are.) and drag up down whatever way. The first click will keep the curve even. But once you let go it allows the little lines that come off the anchor to move freely.

First click

Free move

If you mess up just go and click the box again and it’ll go back to the way you started.

Now click the brush tool. Change the size to nine or something. Click the pen tool again. Hover over your canvas. Right click and hit stroke path.

You’ll get this box set it up like I have it and click ok.

Go back to the path layers click off the layer and you get this.

If you don’t want the pointed endings then just don’t check simulate presser. It’ll just be a normal ending to the brush. That’s good for line art.

Though I still have a few things to do around the site its pretty much ready to be opened. Wordpress gave me a hard time this time around but ether way it still works better than most content managers.

So what to expect from this site? Tutorials, reviews of new web trends, and other little things. As well as my personal portfolio.