Business Card Design
I don’t claim to be a great graphic designer, but I think I’ve finally found something graphics-related that I’m decent at. Business card design. I needed to come up with something for Creo Multimedia, so I sat down and threw this together and printed 100:
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May 2008
Jeremy Duenas: The Unauthorized Web Story IV
A long time ago, in the state of Maryland far far away…
JEREMY DUENAS
THE UNAUTHORIZED WEB STORY
EPISODE IV: A NEW CODING LANGUAGE
After learning that tables weren’t cool (I don’t care what you think, kids. Using tables isn’t cool and is as bad as smoking crack in the bathroom stall when no one’s looking), I learned that all the good web designers were using something called CSS. Some habits are harder to kick than others. Putting off learning a coding language is the hardest. Hell, I’m doing it right now. I have a ton of free time now that schools out for summer (!,,! ALICE COOPER !,,!), but am I making any attempt to learn more PHP? NO!
Anyway! In early 2006, I decided to put off CSS so I could try to find some magical online converter that converted tables to CSS. Sadly, such things don’t exist. I also tried to have someone hand-convert it for me. But in the end I felt like I had cheated and had no right to submit a design full of code I didn’t understand to oswd…It was time…
I sat down, found a designer I liked, and downloaded everything he had. Andreas Viklund was that designer. I spent about a week (maybe a little less) editing his code until I had a basic grasp of CSS. I then threw together, with a TON of help from the oswd community, my first CSS-based template- Zilla. The colors made bleed the eyes of children, but I didn’t care/notice. If you think the design is bad, you should see the code. It’s horrible.
But who cares?! I knew CSS.
Posted by Jeremy Posted in: Funny, Life, Web Design No Comments » May 2008
Jeremy Duenas: The Unauthorized Web Story III
A long time ago, in the state of Maryland far far away…
JEREMY DUENAS
THE UNAUTHORIZED WEB STORY
EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE HTML
In 9th grade, I became really interested in making a personal website. I figured I could get away with another site-builder web app from 20megsfree or something. But I soon found that they didn’t give me the level of control I wanted. It seemed to me that the only thing for me to do was to learn HTML. Yes, HTML…that thing I’d been putting off learning for two years. I didn’t want to, but I knew it was time. I had to learn it! So I viewed the source code of several websites I liked and threw together a really crappy website that consisted of nothing but image tags, links, some H tags, and a couple <br>’s. It was really horrible. And I knew it, but I didn’t care.
Posted by Jeremy Posted in: Funny, Life, Web Design 13 Comments » May 2008
Jeremy Duenas: The Unauthorized Web Story II
A long time ago, in the state of Maryland far far away…
JEREMY DUENAS
THE UNAUTHORIZED WEB STORY
EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE FREE WEBSITES
I soon found that working on a website was very difficult when you didn’t know HTML. But if I recall correctly, I didn’t bother to learn it until years after CJ had left the school and N64 Tower was long gone. But before that, there was my time spent with 20megsfree.com. It was a nice little website that provided, for free, 20MB of storage and a bunch of web templates you could use. All you had to do was type in your text. No code involved! Oh boy! I could continue to not learn HTML and still earn my fame..this time on my own!
Posted by Jeremy Posted in: Funny, Linux, Web Design 2 Comments » May 2008
Jeremy Duenas: The Unauthorized Web Story
I tried something like this a year ago, but the site was a month old and no one saw it. So I figured I’d do another telling of my tale with some better grammar. NOW INCLUDES EXTRA BONUS HUMOR :O HOLY CRAP!
A long time ago, in the state of Maryland far far away…
JEREMY DUENAS
THE UNAUTHORIZED WEB STORY
EPISODE I: THE WEB DESIGN MENACE
I was in 7th grade and, for reasons I couldn’t explain, I was very different. I loved star wars, computers, and the internet (you may be thinking- “I bet he liked that internet. Porn, eh?”, but Neh. Not the reason). No, I liked the internet because I could use AIM. That’s right. I was addicted to AIM like it was made of crack and drenched in liquid nicotine. I would spend hour after hour talking it up to my peeps. Of course there was plenty of “do you like me?” and “she’s a 7/10″ and all the other stuff 7th graders talk about. But there was also something more there. Between my thankfully failed ventures into middle school romance and rating the ladies, I spoke with my friend CJ. CJ had an idea - he wanted to make a website. Being the egotistic being that I am saw this as an opportunity to become famous. I imagined walking down the street and people would yell “OH MY GOD! Is that Jeremy Duenas, creator of -website name-?” “It is! I’d recognize that face and love of all things internet anywhere!”.
Posted by Jeremy Posted in: Funny, Life, Web Design 22 Comments » April 2008