Create Sean: Journey to Professional Designer

I must remember to use the disable parameter in weblog entries. it’s helpful for reducing queries and theoretically speeding up page load.

for some reason this entry was messing up the tagging template. Hopefully adding more text will fix that.

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Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Jul 3, 2008 at 10:14 AM
code | Expression Engine | | tags: code, remember this, expressionengine |

I started porting my HTML/CSS layout for the business site to Expression Engine and everything is going very smoothly for what I’ve done so far.  The only thing that is running dynamically right now is the portfolio thumbs on the front page. Currently they read more links don’t go anywhere as I haven’t added the other templates yet - the rest of the site is still static.

However I did notice one problem and cannot seem to figure out how to resolve it. If you visit http://createsean.com/index.php the site loads correctly. However if you add a trailing slash http://createsean.com/index.php/ it loads up the template group for my default site on my EE install. Any ideas on how to resolve this?

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Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday Jul 2, 2008 at 01:32 PM
Expression Engine | | tags: help please, expressionengine |

I’m not going to do any coding today. I’m still waiting to hear back from my graphic designer. Instead of working on the business site, I’m going to head to a coffee shop and continue reading Web ReDesign 2.0. I’m almost finished reading about phase one and already have so many different ideas about how to approach my next client and project. Clearly this book is a valuable resource for anyone involved in redesign either as a team or a free lancer.

Last night I also completed a preliminary design of my business card which received my wife’s approval. I’ve printed up a few copies and will distribute them to colleagues and friends - I’m heading to a coffee shop near where I teach.

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Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Tuesday Jul 1, 2008 at 10:25 AM
General | | tags: read this, coffee, web redesign 2.0 |

I’ve sent a few emails off to my graphic designer in Edmonton about my client site, but due to a long weekend (Canada Day) and time changes I’m not expecting a speedy reply. I’m hoping though since I’ve reached the wall with my photoshop skill and can’t really proceed any further without the graphics for backgrounds etcetera.

I have been making good use of my time however. I completed a comp of the homepage for my web design site and got it coded into static html. Everything went very smooth and the html/css site looks exactly like the photoshop site. There’s still alot to do with that site including; setting up contact form, portfolio, services offered, testimonials, and more. Additionally I have to port it all to Expression Engine and upgrade my license from personal to commercial.

update

Part of the page is messed up in IE7 - don’t know about IE and lower, but can only assume it’s equal or worse. - strange, but without changing any code it now looks fine.

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Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday Jun 30, 2008 at 04:24 PM
General | | tags: photoshop, internet explorer, expressionengine |

I just upgraded to EE 1.6.4 -smooth as always. It’s nice to see EE supporting the 1.6 branch despite announcements of a major upgrade to 2.0 sometime this summer.

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Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Sunday Jun 29, 2008 at 01:10 PM
Expression Engine | | tags: expressionengine |