Closer and closer I get to completing all this, maxing out the nift, groking jquery and finishing the content. Ok not that last one; writing a cv and portfolio is tricky when you don't know what you want it to look like, and vice versa. I've had to start with old content and style it (though the pages aren't yet navigable) and now I'm at the stage where I need to re-write it all. It's been a crazy couple of weeks with two long weekends and the general election hilarity, but I'm trying to get my head down again and it's going pretty well.
It's also been extremely gratifying that I've been able to use so much of what I've learned tinkering with this lot in a professional capacity. "Twitter feed you say? Oh I did that last week. Twice." "json? Oh yeah I know all about that." When (if) this is all "done" I should create a playground section to keep mucking about in!
Still todo:
- Work out nift-factor for portfolio section: eg mouseover behaviour, flicking between images.
- Compile portfolio screenshots according to appropriate themes and put them in as blog entries
- Find a decent/amusing photo of myself (perhaps impossible) and posterise it for the about page.
- Re-write CV
- Combine hover and focus for the mainNav slide
- Create a fastHover function as part of hiHover
- Then an awful lot of design/typographical fine tuning
In other news: 3 day weeks don't give enough time for my body clock to normalise. Who knew? Going out at the weekend, all-night vigils for elections, Mass Effect 2 tempting me to stay up in the week... NEED SLEEP. Also I dropped my camera on its front a week ago, breaking the telescopic lens and ending two years of devoted service. Knowing from experience that it costs a lot to replace that part I decided to just get a new one. I want a bit insane though, and got a top-of-the-range sony tx5 as a replacement. But it's so shiiiiiny! And also, ostensibly drop proof, which might help.