I Need Some Work
Update (09:37 1/25/08): I might be doing 33rd Street Productions' website, we'll see what pans out come next board meeting. (33rd is IIT's theatre group.)
Update (17:11 1/25/08): Becky and Aunt Marilyn have both come to me with website propositions. If anything, I could just do one for the class project and then do the other ones over the summer or something (again, most likely for free since I would still be building my portfolio). Thanks for the interest, guys!
Update (01:35 1/26/08 Happy Birthday too me): Add Linda's dad to the list as well.
The Request: Anyone need a website? Or know someone that does?
For my ITM461 class we are going to be doing a big project throughout the course of the semester, adding to it as we learn new things, and the professor wants this project to be for someone or a group that needs either a presence on the web, or a better looking / more functional presence on the web.
During the semester, I will be learning:
- HTML and CSS
- Graphics, design, and navigation
- Javascript and AJAX, javascript frameworks
- Google web services, Search Engine Optimization , analytics
- Small amount of PHP
- "Other fun stuff" (I do not know what this means, but the professor really knows what she is doing so I don't doubt it will be useful and cool information)
The professor has said that if we are interested in something beyond the scope of the course and would like to try it out in our assignments or projects, that we would get the equivalent of bonus points (she doesn't have a grading scale, per se). Personally, I'm interested in learning more than just a "small amount" of PHP, so that would definitely be one area I would be expanding upon (perhaps in relation to MySQL databases). She has also stated that she would ensure us not only a functionally sound website, but also a well-designed (read: pretty; or handsome for those of you who don't like "pretty" things) website that will not turn off customers and clients alike.
What would the cost be to you, the client? Zero dollars. I am doing this as a class assignment, but more importantly this would be the first real piece upon which I would feel comfortable building a portfolio. I do not feel it would be right to charge a customer money when they have no idea what the quality of my work will be (this website was not designed by me, it was a free theme I downloaded months and months ago; when I get more confident I will redo this to reflect my own abilities). Besides, you, the customer, get a free website and I get a free addition to my portfolio. It works out well for both of us.
There is only one "problem" that potential clients may have an issue with: The project will be completed somewhere around the end of April or the beginning of May. Since this is a semester long project and we will be applying what we learn in class to the project, it is inappropriate to say that the project will be done before I have learned everything that I need to complete said project.
About me: I have been doing web design in bursts since I was roughly ten years old. I am currently a twenty-one year old (well, I will be twenty-one two days after this is posted; it is just easier to round up at this point) junior at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Because I have been fooling with web design for so long, I am incredibly comfortable with playing around with various tools and technologies as well as trying new things. I enjoy learning about new techniques on my own, but other aspects of my life have been pulling me away from web design, so this class is a great excuse to get back into it. The way that my major and minor are taking me, I would most likely end up working in some sort of systems administration type role. Systems administration does sound like a neat job: to be responsible for making sure possibly hundreds of machines and servers are not going to blow up just sounds fun; but to be able to freelance web design for clients on the side (or eventually as my main source of income) is my ultimate dream. This is the kind of work that I love.
If you or anyone you know are interested, please contact me via one of the following methods:
- Email: satoshi@sugardeath.net
- AOL Instant Messenger: itstonylol
- Google Talk: satoshi1@gmail.com (this should work no problem, since I log onto Google Talk with Pidgin using the Jabber protocol (since it's the same thing in the end), but I've never actually talked to anyone on Google Talk :razz: )
- Jabber/XMPP: satoshi@sugardeath.net
If a phone number is required, please contact me through one of the previous methods first as I do not feel comfortable putting my number on the public web.
Again, if you don't have a need for a website, but know someone that does, please send them to this post.
Thanks,
Tony
So Ongo Bongo Bongo Bongo, I Don’t Wanna Leave the Congo
Oh, no no no no.
I REALLY need a new computer to play Fallout on (or at least David's over Winter Break :razz: ). I've already sunk forty hours into my new character, because I beat the game on my first character after like twenty-five hours... This time I'm going around and exploring the shit out of everything. It's really compelling to try to find everything in the game world, I'm not sure why. I could NOT get into Oblivion, and even though this is a direct sequal to Fallout 1 and 2, it is still a spiritual sequal to Oblivion.
Over the weekend I Facebook friend-requested that girl I see all over the place, except I haven't seen her in a few days. I believe the last time I saw her was when she was getting off the boat cruise bus with Galina and Katie as I was coming back from 7-11. I then saw on Facebook a picture of her, Galina, Katie, and Sahar, but she was untagged. Galina was able to tell me her name, though. This was like a week or so ago, I think. I figured that since Linda has 1,100 friends on Facebook (does that make her a slut? :razz: ), that she'd be friends with this 'Sarah' girl. Turns out she was. I sent her a message along with the friends request:
Because I see you all over the place and figured I should say hi.
I sent it and immediately thought I did the wrong thing by doing it through Facebook (and stupidly expressed my thoughts to Jeremy):
(05:26:32 AM) Me: i wonder if that's creepy at all
(05:36:04 AM) Jeremy: Creeper
(05:36:10 AM) Jeremy: :P
We've talked a bit via wall writings, though, and things seem to be pretty alright. I just don't know if there's things I could be saying to express.. interest in her? Not like interest interest, but rather that I'd like to get to know her more instead of just talking to her once or twice and then silently nodding at each other whenever we pass.
There are thirteen laptops in use in this class (not including the professor's). Only one of the laptop users is paying attention (not including me).
Hung out in Jeremy's room a bit last night, to "save" him. Ended up having some fun impersonating him on AIM to both Alyssa and Galina. Galina didn't take too kindly to it, but Alyssa seemed to just laugh it off. Mostly talked Fallout with Jeremy, Nathan, and Alex.
I got through test twelve of sixteen by Sunday afternoon. The mailer script was not working properly, however, and we now have a blanket extension until the script is working again. However, I think the best course of action decided upon by Richard, Joy, and me was to work on the next lab, the infamous malloc lab. The malloc lab gave Corey and Phil an immense amount of trouble last semester. They had three weeks to work on it and they still didn't get it working properly. I am not excited. I must start this one early, unlike the shell lab that I started roughly forty-eight hours before it was due (I must say, however, I am pretty pleased with how well it turned out given the amount of time I worked on it). The shell lab was pretty neat and almost.. dare I say it.. fun? The thought crossed my mind to actually make it a usable shell that I might be able to make my default shell. :shock: To make it anywhere near usable, however, would require me to make the shell search the system's paths (as I do not feel like typing in /bin/ls everytime I want to get a directory listing)... Which just means changing all execv() calls to execvp(). Oh, and to implement directory changing. I imagine doing so wouldn't be that hard? I'm pretty sure there's a system call for that.
If anyone's interested in checking it out, the C code is here. Check the comments to figure out which functions I had to write.
Jeremy just noticed the pink sticky notes I stuck on the top corners of his old Dell laptop. They were ears! I put them there sometime last night. Kid hasn't slept all night and I've been talking with him for the majorty of the night/morn (he uses the Dell for AIM and such). I am proud of myself. :grin:
My eyes aren't doing that weird halo thing they do after I've been up for too many hours. This is weird.
Um.. Not much else at the moment? I can't think, really. I've been up far too long.