Author: KC

  • Here’s my initial projectpaperwork (pdf) So, This is the changing document to document what I am doing with my special project and what I think I am going to do. I won’t delete the timeline but rather reflect where I am veering and for what reasons. Week 1 (10-10): What I planned to do: Submit Timeline and…

  • Katsite Project 1 Today, after 4 hours at the computer, I finished the second iteration of this website and styled it for mobile. I once again, made a few deviations from my wire frame. As a response to last week’s critique, I’ve created a lot of white space. That includes putting boxes around the text in…

  • Today, I am at Infocamp. Right now I am on the lunch break, consolidating my notes from the first session. For those of you who don’t know how infocamp is structured, it is a participant-led series of talks. Seven infocampers had presentations and pitched what they wanted to talk to the infocamp when we met for…

  • Today in Tom’s class. A brief summary: banana cannon, graffiti is an old hat, “You are writing what you think are ads,” prismism. You can’t be successful if you’re always safe, but you have to make sense.You can’t be successful if you don’t give your work the effort it deserves. Okay is failure. 18-year-olds are sophisticated…

  • Keep Options. This blows my mind. What does it mean? Why is it here? It’s a way for your chapters or whatever to always start on the right page, or the left page, or what have you. What are some other features that you might have never bothered to look for and done everything one…

  •  In Web Design class, I find that I feel a little better adding the features favicon and 404 page. They take less than fifteen minutes each for some nice touches to your website. What is a favicon? It’s that little icon in the tabs in the browser. After Googling how to Favicon, I found this Favicon…

  • Today, Chris Sullivan went over Preferences to have set up for working in InDesign. Without opening up a file, but after launching InDesign, you can change the defaults for the rest of the time you are working with the software. Here’s what I recommend changing from the standard default. You can change these when you…

  • As part of my special project for this quarter, I will be curating a multi-faceted course companion for After Effects. Introduction: After Effects is an Adobe Program (exports .aep), very similar in its design as its buddies Photoshop, Flash, and PremierPro. It’s also compatible with these other softwares in the same way that InDesign, Photoshop…