| September 01, 2008 |
WebsiteBUILDING and me
It's high time I start changing my pages. These pages have been made in Dreamweaver and are table-based. The new way of website-making is however based on tableless-"design".
Personally I don't like the word "design" so much. I find it kinda pretentious, and the word has been shamelessly misused (my humble opinion).
People who are just starting off with a handful of html codes, already come up with a company name with "design" in it. If I check their pages in the W3C validator, the number of errors is shockingly high.
Then again: NOT all of MY pages have yet been validated and surely are NOT yet error-free, so I should NOT be complaining about others so much.
Very unkind of me, I guess to be so critical and judgmental. I apologize.
Because the bottom-line really is about finding so much joy in wrestling and dancing with css & xhtml coding and feeling so damn pleased when the job is done!
We all should feel free in being involved in this fascinating hobby, whether we call it "design" or not.
So...
Hopefully I'll find some time soon to change these table-based-pages into table-less layouts.
Maybe even change the look of this playground of mine again!
Hello Photoshop, here I come....
Then there is also my Joomla project to make my own templates, because I don't want to stay stuck in using the templates of others. There are millions of beautiful templates out there, mind you, but still... it's always much more pleasing to make your own template, and not being dependent on the creative ideas of others.
Being busy with making websites, is about learning on a daily basis, it's like a never-ending exploration of countless possibilities how to "skin a cat". Ouch, that POOR POOR cat!
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| August 29, 2008 |
Yesterday I got back from my 2nd Vipassana 10 day silence retreat. Still not easy, but absolutely worthwhile for everyone to do. If the method is being practised the way it's been taught, life can't but change and definitely become more peacefully and harmoniously.
We are the masters of our own universe.
Look for information about Vipassana on: www.dhamma.org
Doing a 10 day silence retreat is the most wonderful gift to yourself. |
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| August 16, 2008 |
First paid website-building job. Naizzz...
To the right a link to the website I built for my footreflexology therapist Annelies Offenberg www.anneliesoffenberg.com.
Annelies is also an orthomolecular, a flower remedy therapist,
and more!
She's just great, I highly reccommend her.
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| August 14, 2008 |
I've tried Joomla in the past. Not too fond of it. I call it brainless website making (...). So... uh... template based... Getting stuck within a framework, what's the joy of that?
Another version had been released late summer 2007. Only now I decided to give it a try.
It has some advantages indeed, but I like building sites wrestling with HTML and CSS too much I guess...
So, what I will be doing in the future, is trying to learn and make
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| my own template-based-layouts. That should be real fun! Click on the Joomla logo and fly to my Joomla template based exercise page.
The person who designed this one has great taste indeed. |
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| August 11, 2008 |
Another wonderful holiday with my sister & bro' in law. Up north, Oostmahorn, Friesland in a beautiful house on poles in the Lauwersmeer (a lake, which once was sea). The weather was incredibly wet and windy, which made the waters look even more beautiful. The neverending interaction between the wind, the water, the rain and the sun, makes this place one of my ultimate favorites. I wouldn't mind living here forever.
This is also rainbow country. Never seen so many, and double ones as well. Place of magic. |
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| April 21, 2008 |
Been to Surinam in March: 3 weeks.
A wonderful present from my sister Andrea and her husband Henk,
(picture right).
I had my doubts going on holidays (long flight was one...). It was marvellous and I enjoyed it tremendously. The 5-day-riverboat trip with the MiGudu (meaning: my sweetheart), was beyond words. Gazing at the tropical forest wall was totally magic.
A holiday-album will follow... in a while... |
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| February 27, 2008 |
In the meantime another project has seen the light of day.
My Berkeley friend ~alan, who had been writing about the history of Berkeley, called me in december 2007 and asked if I'd like to build a site for him.
I dived into it. Good way to keep me my brains healthy,
and not losing my sanity...
To see this web-kid, click the picture on the right. |
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| January 19, 2008 |
| I am a VOICE FOR LOVE SUPPORTER - Check out their website |
The Voice for Love - DavidPaul and Candace Doyle are great
"ACIM" teachers who offer a wide variety of resources for learning how to hear the Holy Spirit,
the Voice of God within, including:
- meditation for beginners,
- guided meditation,
- emotional healing,
- an interview with Gary Renard on receiving divine guidance, and
- online prayer requests.
BOOK:
Follow the link in the right column for information about their 2nd book: "Voice for Love" |
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October 4, 2007
Past 5 weeks another round of Photoshop classes. Discovering more handy ways to work with it. Homework click the image at the right.
Last assignment for this round of 10 lessons was to make (build ya know me) a weblayout. I'm rather pleased with it.
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August 13, 2007
Twelve Rules of Life -
by Cherie Carter-Scott
Very worthwhile |
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August 07, 2007
The continuing story of WORDPRESS...
Now I also made a blog-page at Wordpress.
clicka-1 clicka-2 and done... holy...
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August 02, 2007
At long last, I installed WORDPRESS, "just" to find out how it works. It can be done fast (if the designer delivers the thAng complete... that is).
With no knowledge of design/html/css, you can put up pages in a couple of minutes....
sheeezzzz... why did I go through all the pain of learning html and css?
MY OPINION?
Well... Wordpress is all about using other peep's creativity to set up slick pages. |
If you're curious. Check out my Wordpress blog exercise |
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July 26th, 2007
Pages I made for a few of my friends |
Yeah... still exercizing |
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June 14th, 2007
Vipassana:
The Greatest Gift, to SELF
I highly recommend it to everyone.
To find out where you can attend
a free 10-day retreat, click  |
Interested about my Vipassana-experience...?
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Blogged a word or two about the 10 day retreat on myspace
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AWAY NOTICE:
From May 16th-May 27th I'm in Belgium for a
10-day Vipassana Meditation
retreat.
For information about Vipassana
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Q: Why AM I here....??
A: STILL dunno (yet)
More on "About Me" page |
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The first week of September 06, 2006, I started doing a 5-weeks-online Photoshop course
@ Kellerhuis.com.
Main reason was how to learn making website-banners/headers for two websites I had been updating and creating since January 2006 for a singer/songwriter.
Apart from that, I also liked to put my face onto cartoon images with MS-PAINT and I thought that would be a lot easier doing that with PS..
Having learnt working with layers and cutting out selected parts from pics,
I was indeed able to make a collage of pictures for a
website-header/banner (you must have spotted the result of an exercise at the top of this page...)
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| Other images I made in PS below and on the link provided at the bottom of this page. |
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I put my eyes and lips into a fabulous Leopard
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Found a tutorial how to make a watermark too... (cute) |
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~ Ready for the kill... ~ |
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~ Same picture with "Neon Glow" filter ~ |
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My homework of the September 2006 classes @ Kellerhuis,
can be found by clicking "curussen" in the navibar,
Or by clicking here.
Check it out. |
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Below some silly stuff I made in May 2006
- just with MS-PAINT...
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Click here and go to my CARTOON ME page for the Photoshopped images...
which turned out even cuter ....
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© Pages, including Background & borders Sherill E. Lisse 2007 |
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