Showing posts with label Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Design. Show all posts

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Squirrels and Upgrades!

The squirrels were everywhere this morning. EVERYWHERE!!!









On my short 2.5 mile run, I saw somewhere between 10 - 15 squirrels...many dangerously crossing the road. Most were foraging in the grass and then hopping up to trees. I don't know if you can tell anything from what the winter is supposed to be like from the squirrels, but they were definitely active. I wonder if the squirrels that live in the nicer neighborhoods have nicer nuts. Gourmet nuts... that come already roasted.

And on a complete separate note, I FINALLY upgraded my design programs.

After much frustration on not being able to uninstall CS2 that~ eh hem~ came with the computer, I ended up talking to Adobe Customer Support for an hour as we cleaned out anything CS from my machine. Then low and behold, I was finally able to install CS3. And I've successfully opened Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. We'll just see what bugs I come across tomorrow, all in time for a huge rush project for my infamous Client NoTimeline. Most importantly, begging agencies to save down their files again after I already asked and feeling like I'm a big pest is finally over. Right now the Adobe updater is running, and things like "Patch Device Central" drives keep mounting to my desktop then disappearing. I have faith in the Adobe gods. I'm already for CS4, whenever that one comes out. Bring it. Cha ching.

Friday, March 21, 2008

My First Website of Which I Make No Claim In Actually Doing

www.childhoodfoodsolutions.org

I learned how complicated putting up a site can be...and this is a "simple" site.

Paul Schliesser gets all the credit for this one. It is basically a site that is extremely text-heavy versus graphic-heavy, so he had a template from a previous site he did that fit the one for CFS pretty well.

But I did change the logo from being a child's hand reaching out of the ground next to a stalk of corn growing out of the ground to a hand reaching for food (apple and grain...representative, yes?) Oh and I formatted some of the lovely excel charts into PDFs.