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Thinking of doing some freelance web design for extra cash. Not that I really need the money but it would be nice ^__^. Dear reader, what do you think about my proposition? First I will need to come up with a basic business plan… For starters, do you think 500 SGD is reasonable for a simple website?

The pricing of template-based design for CMS’s on the other hand would really depend on the complexity of the CMS though. I’m pretty comfortable with setting up and designing templates for Movable Type (easy), Drupal (challenging to design for but design is cleanly separated from code). Wordpress would probably be easy (I’ve designed using it before, just …out-of-touch). I heard Joomla is getting popular now, that I will have to experiment…

I pride myself particularly in writing xhtml and css compliant code. I’m particular about making websites work properly across browsers as I personally hate the experience of having to switch browsers in order to view a page correctly. I think I have good colour sense… My main weakness is probably the inability to draw. This has been solved with the advent of digital design tools! (For example, the tree at the bottom right of this page was originally a photo but it looks like a drawing doesn’t it?)

FYI, I worked on a mini freelance project slightly over 2 years ago: Showbiz Productions. The website’s been changed a bit by the owners since I left it (note: the white text on the banner logo). Of course, my web design skills have evolved a bit since. :)

Subjects: Websites ウェブサイト, Work 仕事

Mood: Declarations

Tags: website

An update! after, what, 8 months of procrastination? It’s been so long since I last posted a blog entry that I’ve nearly forgotten how to write. This site has finally been Drupalised — after playing 睨めっこ with my trusty (but bulky) DELL trinitron over the past week, after work and over the weekend. The catalyst for this decision was the wonderful relevation that Drupal 4.7 beta now supports unicode MySQL properly. This means that my Japanese and Chinese words no longer look rubbish in phpmyadmin. How nice is that? Over the next few weeks, you will see more embellishments to this web space, and more importantly, updates (I hope!) to this blog. I can’t wait for Drupal 4.7 to be final which would mean more cool modules. I’m such a sucker for the taxonomies in Drupal. I’ve always been obsessed about cataloging things — as seen from my old Mythology webbie and my Led Zep bootleg collection — which makes Drupal my blogger’s ambrosia. :-P

Subjects: Websites ウェブサイト

Mood: Declarations

Tags: database, Drupal, MySQL, unicode, website

I’m finally 21! as of October 31st 2002 that is. In my country, that number marks the beginning of ‘adulthood’. I think that’s so weird, ‘cause I really don’t feel like I’ve grown up at all: I still behave *ahem* childishly, or rather childlike-ly 50% of the time. Still, being 21 is a nice feeling. I feel a lot better being 21 than 20, a neither teen nor adult age.

The second thing I want to mention is that I’m done with my projects for this semester, what’s left are the 2 exam papers. It has been a total nightmare, this entire semester, as you can probably already tell from my previous retarded posts (not to say that this post isn’t as retarded). I’ve had barely any time at all to update my websites, no time to read, so my command of English has obviously undergone a degenerative process. I’m getting fat cos I haven’t been exercising with my tightly booked schedules, my thyroid condition doesn’t help either. Life’s been depressing. But NOW I’ve actually time to recenter my my perceptions. As such, my resolutions are to get healthier, exercise, lose some unnecessary weight, recover from my thyroid, do some more reading, re-pursue the hobbies I cast aside because of school.

Subjects: General

Tags: birthday, examination, hyperthyroid, Squaresoft, website