Busy times
Alright, no one told me this being married thing would make my life uber hectic! I probably shouldn’t be complaining, though. Being busy means I have lots of work. Which = money. Which results in happy Matt. So it all works out in the end. Just seems that it all started shortly before our wedding day, and there’s no sign of slowing down in the near future.
Speaking of ‘work’. Media Press has been doing great lately. I’ve been focusing on creating standards compliant sites and it’s totally paid off, in a very short time. I was approached by a designer that used to be a part of The Takeover Group. He’s on his own now and needs some help cutting and building sites. It’ll be nice for a change, to not have to deal with any design work or the clients at all. He’ll hand me a finished design and I’ll cut and build a template for him. Easy-peasy!
I soft-launched my first full-Flash site this week. I’m really stoked on the outcome and I managed to accomplish many new things in a very short time. It definitely stands apart from my previous work. But it will be good to show people that I can do a nice clean site as well. Check out the new reelsuite site here.
Microsoft redesigned their homepage recently. I was completely blown away at first – then remembered who’s site I was looking at. I don’t understand how one of the largest corporations in the world with the most employees and most money can’t make a decent website. There’s 25 errors in the HTML (they didn’t even include the document type) and countless CSS errors. They must have used Frontpage to code it and proofed it in IE only. Way to set an example. At least the new Mozilla site validates – at 4.01 Strict I might add!
Hannah started school this week. She’s a full time student now! Grade 1. Wow, do I ever feel old! I totally remember everything from Kindergarten on – and it doesn’t seem like all that long ago. It’s pretty cool dropping her off in the morning. Seeing her friends run up to her saying her name “Hannah! Hannah!” – then they skip off holding hands. Wicked cute! She seems to be quite the popular one amongst her peers. Which is cool. Not so much cause I want her to be ‘the cool kid’. But she’s really her own person. As funny as that might sound, since she’s just turned 6 and all. But honestly, she couldn’t care less what people think about her. She does what she wants, wears what she wants and hangs out with the people she likes. Her two best friends are Shyanne and Misha. Shyanne has some disabilities. She had leg and arm braces and walks with a bit of a limp. She’s also in a special needs class. But Hannah doesn’t even acknowledge those things and absolutely loves her! Misha is a very shy, little black girl from down the hall. Living in Whitby (aka White-by), you don’t see a whole lot of other races. Misha’s the only black girl in her class and one of the few in the entire school. I just think it’s cool that Hannah looks past their differences and enjoys them as people for who they are. I can’t say I remember things being all that ‘friendly’ when I was her age. I’m not sure if it’s just her innocence at this point. Hopefully it’s a quality within that she carries as she grows up.