It’s done! I’ve finished the revamp and I’m pretty pleased. It’s more conventional regarding layout and organization - perhaps less conventional in regards to images and colors. Regardless, I designed this one with my typical internet rounds in mind. Later I’ll probably add a more professional portfolio site that will have less goats and less vicious cannibalistic eggs. In the meantime, this will be just fine.

The only page that’s without content is the music page, which will be updated later. Still working on a flash mp3 player, or some other more interesting means of playing files. If I don’t get it worked out soon, I’ll at least post a few covers.

Ultimately I believe this version will be way easier to update because there’s just less updating to do. The three image events will only be updated for every major event or news or group of changes. The blog feed covers the rest of the updates. The select art and design pieces will only change when my Top 10 picks change, or when I decide to update it to Top 15. Both my art and design DA accounts will handle all of the regular updates. All in all, WAY BETTER.

Please let me know what you think! I won’t be able to reevaluate it cold-turkey for awhile, so if I’ve botched any color schemes, image links, or bugs let me know.

Next Project: Shirt Storm

I’ve finally finished uploading my designs to the new DA account. Took forever!

Next step: mySoti

So close to being finished with it. I would wager that I have a few days left of tweaking it before the final upload. It’s much more generic, though much easier to navigate than the current design.

Nothing like a little programming snafu to make you feel like a big fat failure.


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…my site’s official birthday now. =)

It’s finally here!

“Where’s the 1337 site that we’ve all been waiting for Fable??!1!1one”

When I started out on this online, self-marketing venture (2 years ago?) I had this huge, grand idea for a website. Along the way I improved my artwork, my music, and my design. In addition I added a few things to my repertoire like shirt design. As my portfolio morphed the site plan morphed too, and every major portfolio change required a bit of a site redesign. This last summer I dipped into some PHP, started teaching myself some new Flash CS3 tricks, and acquired a significant amount of audio software. With my new found goodies, my old portfolio pieces don’t look so hot anymore, and I’m anxious to get back to learning/improving/having fun more than taking new commissions. With that said, I figured “what’s the point in having an extensive site with portfolios featuring work that doesn’t impress me anymore”, and “what’s the point in advertising my abilities if I just want to improve myself right now?”

So! After all of that deep introspection, I decided to slim the site down to only the bare necessities, giving me a page each for:

Art/Design - a collection of art pieces (both personal and commissions) and shirt designs

News and Updates - a place where people can get my commission status (and maybe commission me), view my recent contest entries (and hopefully vote), purchase merchandise, see my latest work (art, music, design, whatever), etc.

Very small and very simple, but it suits my limited needs for the time being. When a portfolio (music, flash, whatever) grows to the point of needing its own page, I’ll make one. Until then…

Enjoy!

…and feel free to ask questions and give comments or critiques. =)