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haha ... my sister went last night ...

- start learning php
- start learning MySQL

thats what i was meant to do las holdisaays .. i guess i learned a bit of it ,,

New art:

Its taken me so long to complete this picture... and its not even really complete (she's supposed to be holding scales, and there is supposed to be embroidery on her dress/sash...) but oh well. I've decided I really need to work more on my illustration skills... among many other things xd

I just had two exams yesterday (Computer Hardware and Software Engineering Design) which went... okay. Only two left, then holidays! Then I'll have to get all this stuff done. Watch out for a list of things to draw and things to learn, coming soon!

Damn, I kind of abandoned this topic, didn't I? sweatdrop Well I'm bringing it back again, because I want to show what I've been working on lately, and I don't want to make new topics for them... so here's whats been going on lately in the world of Chisa.

After a lot of panic and effort putting together my resume and portifolio last year, I did manage to find work experience at a place called Bam Creative - although it was because GhoSt-X's brother is friends with the owner. Just goes to show that who you know is almost as important as what you know in this business xd

I had a great time working there full time for the 8 weeks I need for my course, and now at the end of it, they gave me a part-time job xd So I'll be there a few hours a week during the uni semester, and possibly full-time on the holidays, depending on how much work they have to give me. I'm moving up!

Here's some of the stuff I've been working on:

Personal Projects

• CHI Journal - Yup, I redid my personal site once again, and moved it over to my teresawatts.com account so the url is a bit easier to remember. I went with a bluey greeny layout inspired by a pair of earrings, and put into use some of the new CSS stuff I've been learning xd
  
  
• yarnyeetong.com - After promising this for like a year, I finally got off my butt and finished this site for my kung fu school. IT ACTUALLY VALIDATES!!!! Tried to make it suitable for different screen resolutions and browsers. Still working on adding pictures to the content, and drawing more vector images for the backgrounds, so there can be a different one for each page.
  
  
• Detox Your Body - layout design for the 'detox your body' special of my friend's e-zine. Another free job, but I did learn alot. I'm proud of navigation bar, but I don't like the grey background that she asked me to use sad Currently working on the layout for the next special: Detox Your Bed wink
  
  
• Random Illustrations:
  • Selt Portrait
    
  • Xmas Card 1
    
  • Xmas Card 2
    
  • Attempt at sequential art/Inuyasha fanart
    
  • Gaian Self Portrait (I don't look like that anymore)
    
  • Gaian Self Portrait 2 (don't look like that anymore either sweatdrop
    
  • Commission for Chibi Art Auction winner, sccoral
    
  • (Another) Gaian Self Portrait

Work Stuff

• Vmoto - I had to code, style and do the data entry for the search form. It was the first time I'd ever done anything with a database and SQL before, so twas a bit of a challenge :XP. Also had to create an admin section for the client to add new dealers, and all the relevant PHP/SQL stuff for that.
  
  
• TradeQuote - had to do random bits of styling, fixing up pages and putting in forms for this site. The database behind this site is HUGE; its taken my coworker months to do, and its still not complete xp Glad I didn't have to work on that side of things.
  
  
• Old Broome Estate - I got given the designs for each page as a .psd, and just had to code them up. Simple right? You'd be suprised.
  
  
• Weblaunch - This is what I've mainly been working on at work; its my baby. The idea behind it is that most site have 4 sections: a header, a footer, an area for content, and a navigation area. Most layouts will have the header at the top, the footer at the bottom, and the navigation on the left of the content, on the right, or above it, under the header. So we've developed a set of stylesheets that can take the same html, and turn it into one of those layouts. Then we developed stylesheets that will dictate the colours and menu styles. The idea is that now a client can look at the layouts and choose one, then tell us what colours they want, and all it requires is changing a couple of values on the stylesheets, adding in some custom graphics, and its done! Voila, modular web design. The client can also log in and change and add content and pages themselves, similar to Blogger, but much more powerful.
  
  So, to make template for the clients to choose from, I had to make 160 different templates sweatdrop They are all similar in a way, but it still took a looooot of work. Then I had to take screenshots of them all, to show in the template chooser I made (linked above). The brochures for it are going to be going out soon, I hope it does well so I can keep my job!

Sooo yeah, I've been busy sweatdrop Chinese New Year performances this week, new part time job, this is my last year of uni aaand I have to take on more than the standard load of units aaand I'm doing a double major... I'm thinking maybe its a good thing I didn't go for those Japanese night classes now sweatdrop

Heheh quite possible, we take videos at Chinese New Year, and now that we have the site, I might just put them online.

This is the old kung fu website xp

Portfolio redone! teresawatts.com

I remade it to include the stuff I did for work experience, so I could apply for a contract web desginer position advertised at uni... but I was too late, the positions already been filled sad Still, at least I'm prepared if more job oppurtunities come up!

Comments on my portfolio are appreciated!

I like this part the best:

Pyon: Thankyou! Yes, the old kung fu site was embarrassing >.
Hizzahn: I'm planning to put some smaller, notable but not quite portfolio worthy things in the 'fun' section, like wallpapers of my characters, animations, etc (although I haven't started on any of those things yet xp ).

Thanks for the comprehensive comments! Yeah, the buttons thing is weird, but wasn't really sure what else to do there sad I'll have to look into fixing those other things.