Continuing from the first post, this blog is meant to or is going to supplement my "Website Portfolio" which i have to create for my digital communication class, sort of like an online resume. Anyway, my personal flaw since my birth I'm assuming, is that i am soooooo indecisive! ask my family and seriously they wont deny it. It took me my whole summer holidays which is like 8 weeks or more to decide what uni degree i wanted to do or even if i wanted to go to uni. I'm still not even sure if I'm doing the right one and the concept of majors just complicates thing even more. I guess uni degrees is sort of an legitimate excuse as "it is a big decision" (sigh), but to stress my indecisiveness I still havnt started my online portfolio because of all the options and directions i could take with it. Just when I think i have a good idea, i soon find flaws with it, or think of something which seems better at the time. Anyway I've spent weeks thinking of what to do for the online portfolio and getting past the initial obstacles of creating a "professional" yet casual web identity and overcoming my limited computer skills and have finally thought of an idea. While its probably corny and made of pure cheese, i seem to like it(longer than what my short attention span allows) and besides its getting too close to the deadline to think of any others. Inspired by my sisters computer default desktop page, the ideas talk I had with my tutor Chris and this awesome website i found called Web Designer Wall (link is http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/single-page-portfolio-sites/ ) I decided to go with bubbles. I thought that being a portfolio website about me, i felt that having a photo of me was necessary i guess, as it is a website about me (great observation i know). I thought that in having a simple one page website, it could be a picture of me blowing bubbles and the bubbles would be my hypertext links to my myspace/facebook/blog pages and my work (which consists of nothing as I'm an amateur and not a professional graphic designer who usually have awesome portfolio websites). I know it sounds so corny but in my head the idea seems okay. I'm still a little undecided if i want to apply this theme to all my sites (myspace/blog/facebook), i want them to link but am leaning towards a small link but with different aspects of the idea such as this blog being called speech bubbles and centered around a different comic book theme. I don't know yet its still sort of a draft in my head.
Anyway going on the bubbles idea i realised i needed photoshop. Problem is i don't have it. I used it in high school a couple of years ago and had so much fun with it, but never actually got it. It would make it sooooo much easier for me to make my website, using photoshop. Unfortunately I don't know anyone who has it so i could borrow it to use but i thought i could download a version off the Internet (hopefully for free? maybe). I ended up downloading a trial version of Photoshop 6.0 and loved using it, got started, but problem no.2, i couldn't save my work as it was only a trial version! cue the stressing! I was so annoyed yesterday because i really wanted to finish this website before the end of the uni break and actually for once finish an assignment on time. Anyway that began my photoshop search today, in about 6 different stores, hoping that i could buy an older version of photoshop (my limited computer knowledge prevented me from knowing that this is impossible, which i know now). Anyway found out at the many stores i visited that you cant buy older versions of photoshop and the new one CS3 is about $1000! plus that one is also on its way out as Adobe have just launched there new CS4 which is even more expensive! i was prepared with my emergency $300 but not for a $1000 hit! Pictures of an even more amateur and badly done website attempt entered my mind. However, by an impossible stroke of luck, at the last store i visited one of my friend's brother worked there (which i didn't even realise). Luckily, he said that he had photoshop and he would give it to me for free (in an under the table sort of deal, as legally working in an electronics store he shouldn't be doing this). At that moment i could seriously hear the heavens open up and the angels sing. Okay maybe that was a little over the top, but i was so relieved and happy that i could get photoshop and actually start my assignment (without having to part with more than $300). While this saga is not entirely over as i still haven't actually got the program (getting it tonight), i still feel a little relieved and hopefully all will be well tomorrow in starting my dismal attempt at a website.
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