I put together a placeholder landing page for my portfolio to replace the half-completed portfolio I made more than a year ago. Thought the “coming soon! 2007″ thing was getting old… now it’ll say “coming soon! 2008″ instead

The final layout will probably be pretty close to this placeholder, but I still need to work out how I want the JavaScript to interact. My goal is to make my portfolio feel like it’s made in flash, but it won’t be

I also will be revamping this blog because I want to dig into the Wordpress docs more deeply and write a fully customized blog + layout… just need to find the time, of course.

Sadly, I didn’t manage to finish this final project before it was due at midnight. I was trying for too much and too tired from the Illustrator projects. Unfortunately, I got stuck on a bug for quite sometime before I realized I was just missing a stop() action, lol :X Don’t know what kind of grade I’ll get because I didn’t manage to put in all of the minimum requirements, but this is what I’ve got:

Portfolio

I guess now I can take my time to fix up things on it… like move the tabs to the top… looks weird on an actual web page on the side because it doesn’t expand all the way. I also had wanted to add more smooth transitions, and I need to optimize the initial loading/splash animation.

Time to sleep.

[EDIT] The contact form doesn’t actually work just yet… haha it’s not done

The Facebooker Who Friended Obama

Interesting article about one of the founders of Facebook who quit to work on Senator Obama’s online campaign.

“You can have the best technology in the world,” he said, “but if you
don’t have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about
it, then it has no purpose.”

I think we would do well to remember that it’s about the people and the community first.