I finally got myself a new camera. After all the advices, I decided to go with Nikon D40. It’s nothing grand but I guess it’s enough for a novice like me. Also, I don’t wanna spend so much while I’m at level 1. I’m still trying to figure out how to operate this and I can’t wait for the day to master it and shoot nice photos! For now, excuse my blurry shots! Haha
And here’s my first test shot (auto focus). Meet Killua!
After an hour, I realized I can focus manually haha.
That’s it for now. Wish me luck! ^_^
Being an employee drains out a lot of energy. And if I become an employee and a freelancer at the same time, it will also gonna drain out my sanity. Because of this, I won’t be able to take on freelance projects…at least not at the moment.
This lifestyle is totally different. But I decided to give more time for myself and chill out.
I’m terribly sorry if I wasn’t able to get back to you if you contacted me for a quote.
I’ve received some FAQ and here’s my answer.
Q: Are you looking for employment?
A: No, I’m not. I’m already employed.
Q: Do you have time to work on our website?
A: Not much, but it depends how much you’re willing to pay me ^_^
Q: Can you do our website in exchange for free hosting or link because we’re quite popular?
A: No thanks. Unfortunately, my landlord doesn’t accept free hosting or link exchange as a payment.
Q: When will you be available?
A: Honestly, I don’t know. Time is off my hands now. Occassionally, I’ll be available and I’ll definitely give a shout.
I hope you don’t forget Luc, your friendly neighborhood designer. She’ll be back once in a while to work on your site. For the meantime, let her chill :)
7:00 Cellphone alarms with Doraemon theme tone.
7:10 snooze…
7:20 snooze
7:30 Drag myself out of bed
7:35 Quick breakfast
7:40 Bath
8:10 Remind myself that I need to hurry up bathing
8:15 Dress up
8:25 Walk to MRT Station
8:30 Miss the train
8:35 Get squeezed at MRT
9:00 Reach office
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First off, I want to apologize to all the people who emailed me but did not receive a reply. I received all your emails and I will get back to you all once my connection is stable. I’m still alive and I’m working my butt off here at Singapore. Yes I am here at Singapore at last! About a month ago, I moved here to work as a designer for a web development company. Ahhhh so many things to tell, but so little time I have. I’ve been really busy with work and settling down. Where to start…I really don’t know. Anyway, I’ve uploaded a few shots. I plan on getting into photography. But first I need to buy a decent DSLR. My camera is quite old.
More to come. Laters!
Well, I know I’m late, but anyway, the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards is now open for nominations. It aims to recognize the finest blogs and bloggers in the Philippines.
I’m really happy that my blog design has been recognized internationally, but ofcourse, as a Filipino, it would be my pleasure to be recognize in my own country.
If you think I’ve got what it takes for the Best Blog Design Award category, feel free to nominate me. ^_^
http://www.philippineblogawards.com.ph/entries/nomination-form-special-awards/
April 26th, 2008 · 6 Comments ·
I get a lot of emails asking about the plugins I use here at Octwelve blog. So today I’d like to share it with you.
Adsense Deluxe
Adsense Deluxe is a very easy to use plugin for quickly inserting Google ads. So instead of copy pasting the google code over and over again, you simply put an HTML comment “<!–adsense–>” anywhere in a post. Download the plugin here.
FlickrRSS
FlickrRSS allows you to integrate the photos from a flickr rss feed into your site. Download the plugin here.
Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools lets you create a complete integration of your WordPress blog and Twitter account. It brings your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. I have a previous post here on How to add Twitter on your blog. Download the plugin here.
SimpleTags
Allows you to create a list of Technorati tags at the bottom of your post by providing a comma separated list of tags between the [tags] tags. Download the plugin here.
That’s all the plugins I use. I hope that helps :) Laters!
Technorati Tags: wordpress, plugin, blog
April 20th, 2008 · 8 Comments ·
As you know, Octwelve is my first blog and the character is my first original illustration. I am really happy that my blog design is making it into different lists like this. But what truly flatters me is to see my work featured amongst other great designers I look up to..like Meomi. Now I wish I could see my blog design on magazines too someday. ^_^
Anyway, here’s the 25 Incredibly Artistic Websites by Vandelay. I’m sure these will inspire you. Thanks Vandelay!!
Here’s my personal pick:
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Technorati Tags: artistic, website, design
Yet another cool WordPress blog design list by Noupe. It’s very inspirational indeed. Octwelve is one of them :) I think my personal pick is Malene Hald, Leslyg, and Web Designer Wall.
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Today, I want to share with you some of the great things about having a standards compliant website and why you too should start using it.
Search engine friendly, increased traffic
This is one very important reason to practice web standards. Search engines such as Google are blind user. It doesn’t care about the design. It cannot tell if it’s a heading just because you set the page heading to font size of 20px to make it larger.
In a standards compliant website, the design is separated from content. The HTML holds the contents while visual presentation is controlled by CSS. The HTML uses a semantic code. A semantically structured website uses the right tag to describe the contents within it. So if something is a heading, instead of using font size=20px, wrap it with heading tags such as H1, H2, H3 and so on. e.g., <h2>The Benefits of Web Standards</h2>
By describing your contents properly, the more Google will understand what your site is all about and improve your ranking which will lead to an increased traffic.
Less bandwidth, loads faster
By removing the visual presentation markup from HTML and moving it to CSS, means that your HTML page size is smaller and thus it loads faster. We should keep in mind that there are still lots of dial-up users out there. And we can’t just ignore them. Slow loading sites are so boring and annoying. The tendency is your visitors will leave your website and you lose a business.
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