Grr. So it seems there are lots of problems with the plugins I use also, because the brilliant minds over at Wordpress.org decided to restructure both the database, and the admin files. These two changes, in my mind make it so that many plugins, themes and customizations no longer work.
So you probably noticed the change in the way the site looks. I spent a few hours on the weekend creating this new theme and planning a few others.
You may have also noticed the primary links up in the header on the right, let me take a brief moment to explain.
A little more than a year ago I was pretty heavy into creating open source application extensions (Themes, Modifications, Plug-ins etc). I want to get back into it. So I’m arranging my sites around that theme. How much of any of what I want to do will happen is still probably anybody’s guess. Last time, I got completely turned off of the thing when a Developer I was working with made so many un-documented changes to one of my applications that I basically lost touch with it, and when he one day disappeared on me, I was left trying to support something I knew very little about.
I also had a lot of people not understanding that I do this on the side, in between working, school, homework and my girlfriend (in no particular order) and all the duties and responsibilities that come with those things, so I’m linking my blog and personal gallery in with everything else. But you know my blog, what it entails and what I use it for so I’ll glaze over that subject.
Before I start explaining each of the other two sites let me start by saying I haven’t spent much, if any, time on the themes for these sites. So they will be changing to match the look and feel of my blog. Its the template that I’ll use for anything else I put on this conglomerate of sites.
(labeled ‘Wiki’ in the links): Tinyforge (tinyforge.com & tinyforge.net) is more or less the central entry point for people interested in my developments more than my personal life. Its a Wiki, like any other Wiki you’ve seen. And at least for the time being, its completely open to edits.
This site will be the location that contains all my applications and designs, as well as download links, documentation, common support and other similar stuff. Think of it as a users manual written in pencil. When you have a question you can open to that section, but if you see a mistake or want to add to it, just change it.
This should help me stay on top of the documentation and common support of any of my applications.
(labeled ‘Forum’ in the links): For a two way communication of support, you can use the forum. However, its not necessarily the only thing the forum can be used for. I have other hobbies, other interests, even some local events may show up on the Forum. I don’t actually expect the forum will get much use in that facility though, because most the topics that might show up on there, end up in my face to face conversations with my friends anyway. But its there if anybody wants to use it.
So that’s the scheme for the Indemnity Web as I’m going to be calling it from now on. Let me know if you come across any bugs that need to be worked out for my blog’s theme, its the only one I’m considering done.
Classes started again last week. I’ve got a pretty easy load this semester (which it should be by now, since I’m in my 5th semester at a junior college grr…) 4 classes in total, Calculus (repeating to bump up my grade), Engineering Statics (fun class 
), US History, and an intro to Accounting class.
I figure as long as I can keep up with homework (honestly a challange for me sometimes) I should have no problem getting a 4.0 this semester. Thats my academic goal for this semester, my first post High School 4.0.
On the creative front, I’ve been doodling in a bunch of diffrent mediums. As I briefly noted before I’ve become a deviant and I’ve done a couple things for my portfolio, but nothing of real substance. At work I’ve been working on a marketing campaing that has consumed most my creative time. Basically I’ve created a whole new image for the company so that by the end of this month we can start pushing our name out in front of new clients, mostly in the Sacramento and Bay Area. The first phase of this campain is to send out postcard like mailers that simply show off what we can do with the intent of getting people to give us a call, or visit our website (which is also being re-worked, more in a bit).
The whole image started with this postcard design. The building is a redering of an arena that we helped design being built in Stockton. From there a few concepts came out, like the black background to make the logo pop, and the question/answer tagline. The whole campain is revolving around the “Creative Solutions for Complex Designs” slogan. The word ‘Problems’ was changed to ‘Designs’ after this orignal postcard was created.
After that came another postcard design, one which actually has made it almost all the way to the print shop (was about to send it today, but a couple things caught my eye). I have an early version also in my scraps at deviantArt here As soon as I fix the few things I’ll actually publish the front and back of the card and link to them from here so you can all take a look.
There is also to be a tri-fold brosure done on 8.5×14″ (22×36cm) 100lb glossy paper. This is for a more lasting impact on a prospective or VIP client as it contains more images, more descriptions etc. I dont have any avalible images of what this is going to look like, its still kind of early in its design, but the same kinds of themes apply. The cover is solid black, with nothing but the logo, out website address and the slogan “Creative Solutions for Complex Problems”. The rest is black text on a white background (mostly) to make it easy to read. Its also being designed so if we wanted to mail it out, we could with a blank back.
Lastly, the website is getting a face-lift, as well as some implants. First, I’ve only started on the design so at the moment it does not render well in Internet Explorer (and probably others) so if you want to view it how I intended, you should use FireFox. You can take a look by going to http://www2.electdesign.net. The bigest change is that I’m trying to do it all using a portal system so that later down the road just about anyone can make additions and changes to the site. The Embassy Suites Riverfront page is an example of a complete thought on how project pages should look, as well there are some neat features like the image of Bill in the ‘EDC Expands …‘ news article.
So thats been my visually creative outlet, but I’ve also expanded a little (and probably poorly) into some audio stuff as well. KWOD, the local radio station is doing a competition to see who can do the best remix of the NIN song ‘Only’. So, I downloaded the source files, and a trial of Sony ACID Pro and started mixing. It was WAY easier than I thought it was going to be, and what I ended up with I thought wasn’t half bad for a first attempt. I actually have two, the second was just the addition of another, faster beat track and isn’t polished well but I wanted to know what people thought. Constructive critisizim is very welcomed:
NIN – Only [Indemnity83 MIX]
NIN – Only [Beat Track MIX]
So thats probably going to have to be the end of this post, mostly because its 10PM now, and I haven’t started my homework yet.
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