Eternal Sunshine

An educational journey through the Web Design world.

Well actually two links to more than one tut for the day. One from PSDTUTS, the other from Six Revisions.

Web Design From Scratch (Photoshop/HTML/CSS)

30 Exceptional CSS Techniques

That’s it for me, two final projects + work = no free time for two weeks!

Well it’s official. I’m not taking any classes this Summer. Mostly because the offerings are pathetic. Not a single thing that will either take care of a needed credit, or just anything I want to take in general. So this summer shall be my own way of learning. Woot!!

I’m working out a mental list of everything I want to accomplish by summer’s end. Some are personal, some educational, but all things to keep my busy and the brain working. I give this until June 1st, then I’ll just be playing video games and catching up on my sleep.

In no particular order I give you:

Things to Accomplish Summer 2008

• Re-write Resume
• Get DisasterDesigns completed and online
• Research possible college options for future bachelor degree finishing
• Write/Call MSU regarding what I would need to do to finish my Psych degree
• Take on a few freelance jobs
• Work on the Marty/Me book project that is collecting layer upon layer of dust
• Read. Read. Read.
• Learn ASP.NET
• Refine Flash skills
• Create no less than 5 CSS templates for use with sites
• Improve layout technique and design in Photoshop
• Learn. Learn. Learn.
• Eat better, move more
• Organize files on computer more efficiently
• Start an IRA
• Save $. Save. Save. Save.
• Start looking for companies to potentially apply with in the area and out of state
• Write daily entries here
• Sell things I don’t need.
• Start creating a more professional wardrobe. Comfortable but office appropriate.
• Plan out for a better financial year
• Relax and enjoy the sunshine

I’ll likely add to and subtract from this but at the moment that’s a little window into the things I want to accomplish with my ’semester off’.

Oh yeah, and I’ll be working full time as always. I just can’t get enough of doing something all the time. I am a sick, sick puppy.

Today is my last ‘free’ day before classes start. In honor of that I think I shall make tonight “Make Pretty Things In Photoshop” Night.

I’d like to focus on photo retouching/restoring tonight, since that’s something I think I would like to really get into. Retouch, restore, and reuse. I have a lot of photos, particularly of myself that would be awesome retouched. I have a few of my friends and I that I would like to retouch and fix up to be printed as well.

That’s it for me, much actual work work to be done…

Part of my morning routine is to poke through Digg.com’s Design section. This morning there was an article which links to 50 different articles covering various aspects of Web Design/Graphic Design.

There are articles covering basic design principles, color theory (one of my favorite topics), CSS, layouts and more.

Check it out, a good day or two’s worth of reads.