I was sick of my old Myspace profile so I did an update tonight. It is very simple, but it works. Visit my profile, but don’t expect me to start using Myspace.

I don’t believe I ever posted this.

February CSS Zen Garden Submission

That was a design I did for CSS Zen Garden a while back, I have not heard back whether the garden is still alive or not as it has been about 3 months since I submitted it. I was contacted by an individual from Dubai and I was just curious what the pay was like and ended up giving him some URLs to work I was doing. He said he was not convinced of my work. I do not consider myself a front end person and I try not to have criticism make me feel bad, but when I see a lot of work that really is crap and while I dislike some of my work I know that some of it is also not bad. And in the end the wanker still didn’t tell me what the average pay for design/development jobs in Dubai is.

So I spent a lot of the day redoing the design for this site. This one is tableless and I need to change a few things to get the XHTML to validate, but it is pretty clean. It is based on the previous design so I set it at version 2.5, but it has many improvements over the other version. I do still have some work to do adding some of the old plugins and adding in more new ones. I also plan on making a user choice of 1024 or 800 since the width makes some posts short. I hope you like it.

Recently I have been involved with some individuals that failed to meet my expectations and I have let it bother me a little too much. The situation is that someone was hired to do a job, did not finish the work I was informed they would finish and the work they did complete was lacking in my ways.

I don’t blog about my personal life much, but in past years I have had some tough times, and some of that was financially and it really really makes me upset when I see people making 250% of what I do and they can’t even do the job. I have had to fix most of the problems that have been introduced or the parts that were not completed. I am making enough that a lot of people would be happy with their take home, but the individual I speak of has made a lot more and from what I have seen does not deserve it.

There have been a number of amateur mistakes made and I just don’t understand how someone can get by with some of the things I have seen and still make as much as they informed me they were making. True, it could have been a lie, but I somehow doubt it. I am not trying to broadcast that I am a genius in the design world, or ever close to what some of talent that is out there, but I have been doing it for a long time and there are just certain things you do and don’t do.

The whole point of this is that just because someone charges less than another does not make them any less quality, and just because someone is more expensive does not mean they are worth it.

I just finished the site for Shenandoah Valley Inn., which I am very happy with. The menu bugs me a little, but the client really liked all of it so it stayed. There are some minor tweaks here and there, but anything that needs to be changed is going to be minimal. Let me know if you find something wrong. This site was with the local company I work for so I was sub contracted to do it under their name. I hope everyone likes it.