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Showing posts with label website. Show all posts
Showing posts with label website. Show all posts

Thursday, April 4, 2013

New Portfolio!

So I finally decided to make a very important investment and purchased a legit domain. No more of the co.nr mess. I paid like $38 for a whole year of web hosting and got the domain for free at GoDaddy.com. Not too bad. Now you can Google my name and actually find my website on the first page (along with my Twitter and Facebook). It's alyssanguyen.com. Just so you know.

The whole redesigning of my portfolio took 3 days. This is what my old portfolio looked like:

Now it looks like this:

In case you're curious, my new design was inspired by the Nike Lebron X shoes in the "Canary" color. Looks like this: 

Yeah. I know some people don't like those shoes, but if I had money then I wouldn't mind getting those. They would be considerably heavier than my current shoes, the Adidas Crazy Shadows, though.

For those who don't know, I make my websites purely from HTML. It's what I'm most familiar with. So while it looks like what you see about now, for days it looked like this to me:

So much fun. I think my next investment now is to make myself some business cards. Or at least that's what my social media marketing professor is suggesting. Fingers crossed that my investments pay off and I can get a full time job. For now, I guess I'll just be a server at the Gaylord Texan Hotel. Oh yeah. I guess I forgot to mention that. I have a part-time job now! It's a seasonal job at the Gaylord Texan's Paradise Springs. It's basically like a Hawaiian Falls except for high class people. Let's hope this job gets me some good tips, unlike at freaking Studio Movie Grill. 

Monday, September 10, 2012

Finished my online portfolio!

Hooray! I've managed to complete my personal online portfolio! Oh my gosh. That took wayyy longer than I thought it would. When did I start? I think on Friday. And I just finished so that's about 4 days to build this site. I really do need to learn how to use Dreamweaver or something. Coding a website in pure HTML and CSS is the most tedious thing ever. The worst part for this project was including a lightbox for the graphic design and photography portion of the site. I've never used a lightbox before so I had to learn quickly how to implement jQuery and stuff like that. I guess this was a good learning process. At least I'll be satisfied with the layout of my site for a while and at least it sort of works across all browsers. I will forever hate Internet Explorer for making my life a living hell. My last layout was rather blah and it didn't appear correctly on Internet Explorer at all. Tien says that I should try using Blogger to build sites instead cuz it'll be easier to update. The only downside is that it's less customizable. Oh well. If you guys want to check out my portfolio, you can. I still haven't added any images to the photography section yet. I'll work on it later. I was more focused on the graphic design portion. But yeah!

Click to see my portfolio: http://ae221.co.nr (I'll try and get a more official domain later.)
Check out Tien's blog: http://hungrytien.com