Kree’s Den

Contrary to what people seem to believe, yes, I’m a web designer. I can professionally design web pages in (X)HTML with CSS, with or without PHP scripts to update it, and all with standards compliance. Of course, since I’m not a corporation, I can’t take ambiguous statements “make a website for me and it has to be how I like it” and produce something. Big business gets paid big dollars to wheedle details out of clients and/or make up the details for an actual website from that. Since I hardly ever ask any money from the stuff I code, you’ll excuse me for asking you to give exact colors, layouts, lengths/widths and other details.

But it seems that no one seems to want to take me seriously as a web designer. Okay, I can understand if you want to learn to code or personally tailor things to your needs, but if you want my help then you’ve got to let me do what I’ve studied to do. I’m not doing a University degree for the atmosphere. I can’t describe all the ins and outs of web design over MSN.

Letting me do coding won’t make it any less your site, and you can still learn how to do coding. All I’m asking is to take me seriously and let me do the coding that web designers have to deal with to get a professional-level web site together.

BTW, this is not aimed at anyone in particular. I’m just sick of having to repeat myself every time web design comes up in a conversation.

Doh! Also forgot to mention this in that holiday post. After shopping we came back to see this at the cinema, and I tell you, it’s the best damn movie I’ve seen all year. I give it 5 stars out of 5, and I very rarely ever give something even 4 stars.

Seriously, Happy Feet is the most awesome movie ever :D It’s got so many cultural references, perfect use of story elements and a truly awe-inspiring rendition of the Antarctic landscape. As soon as the credits started rolling I wanted to own the movie on DVD, and I know very well it’ll take ages for that to be actually possible :P It’s that good. I’d love to watch it a dozen more times.

I can’t say any more in case I ruin it, but just make sure that you see it in cinemas when you can :D

Almost forgot to mention one last thing! :D

the (apparently) only picture I found online

a recording of the pillow I made

Mine is the orange one. It’s so hilarious to have a cute little fluffy orange pillow that makes a “Boing!” when it bounces off things.

I will never get tired of that boing. Ever. XD

I should probably stop being lazy and write something :P Here’s a wrap up of our holiday family outing. To save the front page from a flood of text I’ll hide the main bulk of it ;)
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Blargh, I won’t yammer on about how crap I am for not updating/being active. I’ve done it so much it’s become old hat now.

So aaaanyway, I’ll see if I can get myself active enough to finish off those sketches I promised on dA.

Also, I’m thinking of making some sort of e-cards to give out for christmas. Since the mail system will be way too clogged for real stuff, and since I’m also gifted at programming, hopefully it’ll be pretty fun.

I’d also like to make some sort of e-tree to let people stick decorations on, but I might not be able to get something like that done for christmas :S

PS. If you were wondering about those photos of my tablets, they’re here and here…