Two page project, and some geek cred.
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elfsAt last, the truth can be told. I have been volunteering for South King County Community Network Domestic Violence Task Force Walk-A-Thon as their web designer, and now you can see our new two-page website: Steppin' Out to Stop Domestic Violence. It's a nice page, with a flexible layout that allows for very large font settings, and a clean semantic design that makes it very ADA-compatible. The PDF were given to me by their in-house graphic designer, and I had to completely guess what the rest of the palette would be like. I'm getting better at palette decisions, mostly thanks to a whole bunch of color wheel tools that I've really enjoyed learning how to use: Color Scheme Chooser and Wellstyled's Color Scheme Generator. Which one to use is really a toss-up. But with the "other than black and white, you've got one shade of purple, and it's low-saturation too!" palette, I had to make a lot of odd choices.
They really liked the quilt background I came up with. I was going for something "domestic without the violence," and I think that hit just the right note. (It's also a complete cheat, as it gave me a layout grid when I turned off the inner DIV's background!) It took me less than ten minutes using Inkscape, once I'd found just the right color scheme. Remember, kids, if you're stuck with a limited palette, saturation is another tool you can use. I had to cut the "two walkers" image out of the logo to use as bullets on the page. Can someone explain to me why the Gimp couldn't do dithering properly while reducing a GIF, but NetPBM Tools did it utterly perfectly? Is this just a case of "that's expert knowledge they pay you for?"
In any event, not at all a bad job for five hours of Gimp, Inkscape, and Emacs. They get the work for free, and I get to write a hefty donation off my taxes. They're 501C3. Everyone's happy!
Under the heading of "geek cred," a heavy metal band can try to acquire some by writing SF, computer-related, or Fantasy lyrics. Sadly, too much is either really bad XFP or equally tragic Matrix references. But the band Rocket Scientists earned geek cred for me yesterday. The album, Oblivion Days was pretty good, the singer much more competent than most, and the instrumentals very competent (and there are five instrumental tracks!). But as I was listening, one track dug deep and pulled up ancient memories. "This can't f'ing be!" I said as I fished my iPod out of my pocket, but it was. It was the theme to Space:1999, season one, arranged for heavy metal guitar. And done well. Rock on, Garth!
They really liked the quilt background I came up with. I was going for something "domestic without the violence," and I think that hit just the right note. (It's also a complete cheat, as it gave me a layout grid when I turned off the inner DIV's background!) It took me less than ten minutes using Inkscape, once I'd found just the right color scheme. Remember, kids, if you're stuck with a limited palette, saturation is another tool you can use. I had to cut the "two walkers" image out of the logo to use as bullets on the page. Can someone explain to me why the Gimp couldn't do dithering properly while reducing a GIF, but NetPBM Tools did it utterly perfectly? Is this just a case of "that's expert knowledge they pay you for?"
In any event, not at all a bad job for five hours of Gimp, Inkscape, and Emacs. They get the work for free, and I get to write a hefty donation off my taxes. They're 501C3. Everyone's happy!
Under the heading of "geek cred," a heavy metal band can try to acquire some by writing SF, computer-related, or Fantasy lyrics. Sadly, too much is either really bad XFP or equally tragic Matrix references. But the band Rocket Scientists earned geek cred for me yesterday. The album, Oblivion Days was pretty good, the singer much more competent than most, and the instrumentals very competent (and there are five instrumental tracks!). But as I was listening, one track dug deep and pulled up ancient memories. "This can't f'ing be!" I said as I fished my iPod out of my pocket, but it was. It was the theme to Space:1999, season one, arranged for heavy metal guitar. And done well. Rock on, Garth!
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Date: 2006-08-10 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-10 09:01 pm (UTC)Other than that, I really like it. Functional and asthetically pleasing :)
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Date: 2006-08-10 11:13 pm (UTC)Uh, how so? I've done work for several non-profit 501c3 orgs and have asked a CPA and the general consensus is that donated services are not tax-deductible, only donation of physical goods at their Fair Market Value are tax-deductible.
If you know otherwise or have a reliable loophole, I would be very, very interested in hearing about it.
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Date: 2006-08-15 02:48 am (UTC)http://validator.w3.org/check#
Date: 2006-09-05 07:20 am (UTC)Failed validation, 4 errors
Line 54 column 42: end tag for element "a" which is not open.
home or office as a reminder!
Line 79 column 65: end tag for "br" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.
..._Poster.pdf">Event Poster!
Failed validation, 4 errors
Line 54 column 42: end tag for element "a" which is not open.
home or office as a reminder!</a></div></li>
Line 79 column 65: end tag for "br" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.
..._Poster.pdf"><b>Event Poster!</b><br><img id="EventPosterThumb" src="WATPoste
Line 79 column 114: required attribute "alt" not specified.
...ntPosterThumb" src="WATPoster_tn.jpg"></a></li>
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...sterThumb" src="WATPoster_tn.jpg"></a></li>
Otherwise, a fantastic page! Bookmarked for further awe.