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Health Savings Accounts Website

Friday, December 4th, 2009

I have just finished redesigning and developing another website for DataPath. HSA223.com is an informational website about HSAs (Health Savings Accounts). The redesign image is on the left and how it looked before is on the right. I implemented CU3ER into the banner of the website where I created all the graphic and slides for it. I also changed the navigation using some simple javascript and CSS to handle it all. I think overall it looks cleaner and more up to date, and it’s easier to use, and the pages are lighter weight. Finally, I converted all the table formatting in the pages to use div’s.

To increase SEO of the site, we updated the text, added meta descriptions, added Google Analytics stat tracking, and I validated all the pages.

Cya

Tags: cu3er, Design, Development, Graphics, SEO
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Photoshop Conference

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Yesterday, I was able to attend a Photoshop Conference here in town. It was really useful, inspirational, and I learned a lot. There were two tracks, one basic and one advanced, so I decided to take the advanced track because I have been working with Photoshop for over 8 years now. Even with that much time with the program you can always learn more and even better ways of doing things. They started off teaching us the capabilities and reasons to use LAB color mode as well as CMYK compared to RGB color modes. Also, they spoke briefly about color theory and some advanced techniques. Then, they taught us about color correction, threshold, contrast, color curves and they really used layer masks a lot and taught us the correct way of doing things with them and channels. Overall I am really glad my company sent me and It was also really nice because I received 6 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) toward being Photoshop Certified.

Cya

Tags: Design, Graphics, Photoshop
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Icon Set version 1 added to GraphicRiver

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

I have just added my first sellable graphic to GraphicRiver, which is a website for buying and selling Photoshop files, vector graphics, icons, textures, shapes, brushes, and other stuff. I have been wanting to do this for a while now and I finally made it happen. I will also be submitting flash files to ActiveDen, which is another website created by Envato. Envato is a company that hosts a bunch of sites that caters to designers and developers, whether it be selling files or training techniques (such as PSDtuts+ ). I have been going to their sites for a while now for inspiration and learning, and I thought I might as well sell some stuff along the way.

Click on the image below for a full size image of what I am selling. If you want to purchase this item, all you have to do is create a free account on their site and then deposit some cash and then buy it. There will be more files to come.