Abhishek Reddy — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:35:18 +0000

Inside is filled? That should have no bearing. You don't use layers?

Dragon of Ice — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:12:21 +0000

I originally used anti-aliased edges on my duct tape roll (the text is anti-aliased), but I then realised that it wouldn't work with the inside being filled. I just now realised that if I originally started out with a grey background (instead of transparent) I could have avoided this problem. I think I'll redo it.

I use PSP 6 BTW

Abhishek Reddy — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:53:18 +0000

andy206uk wrote: Dragon... Please, for the love of god enable aliasing in your graphics program.

If it doesn't do aliasing, get something that does (Macromedia.com do a free trial of Fireworks!). Your never going to create quality websites when the edges are all spiky like that...

You mean anti-aliasing, of course?

andy206uk — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:29:40 +0000

Dragon... Please, for the love of god enable aliasing in your graphics program.

If it doesn't do aliasing, get something that does (Macromedia.com do a free trial of Fireworks!). Your never going to create quality websites when the edges are all spiky like that...

Dragon of Ice — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:15:29 +0000

I think I'm going to do a duct-tape tutorials website! I know, kinda weird, but kinda funny! Here's the banner that I made real quick:

http://www.freewebs.com/basskickin/banner.png

Roo — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 01:27:49 +0000

I agree. I had a personal site for years before I decided to go into designing for clients. It takes time, and practice, and most of all a lot of learning. Read whatever you can get your hands on, study well designed sites, and practice, practice, practice.

A weblog is a very good place to start, even if you talk about nothing more than learning this stuff.

Heck, make up themes, and do page layouts and post them on your weblog, what better way to practice?

Read some graphics tutorials, spend time doing those tutorials. You need to put in a lot of hours and work 'behind the scences' before you think about selling your design services.

But not to worry! We all started out that way, nobody was born a web designer.

Abhishek Reddy — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:48:48 +0000

It's not a *personal* journal -- that is, it doesn't have to be intimate, and it probably shouldn't be.

You could do a blog on just about any topic. Zeldman runs a webbish blog, Hixie writes about his experience with web architecture, these guys run a science blog, this guy keeps an Islamic blog... Point: it's not exclusively a personal diary.

Oh and you can, with good software, set up member management and authentication to keep parts or all of your site private.

Dragon of Ice — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:46:11 +0000

That's an idea. I don't know if I like the idea of anybody being able to read my journal though...

andy206uk — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:06:15 +0000

Do what I did... setup a blog. (mine's at greendezire.com).

It's fun and easy and because it's not important to anyone and you can experiment with the design as much as you like (I've done tons of redesigns since I launched it a few years back!).

Dragon of Ice — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:37:09 +0000

This is my sort of personal site. I couldn't think of any other subject matter that interested me enough to really work at making a site look good, so this is my subject. I haven't shown this to any customers (not that I have any, considering I haven't pursued any). This is my way of learning and experimenting.