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World Wide WebWeb Design is one of the areas where I find that art, programming, and creativity overlap most of all. Although I have worked as a contract web designer, I feel that my personal pages bring out this cross-over best. All of the graphics for my web work are done in Photoshop. Proudly, almost all of the HTML and JavaScript code is hand written in text editors (the only exception that I can think of is some of my resume that was exported from MS Word format). Although I am sure that web publishing software would make the process of web development much faster, my experience tells me that writing it by hand will make the code cleaner, more efficient, easier to read, and easier to maintain.This SiteThis site is intended to market myself as a creative individual with an array of talents. It is designed around the concept that my artistic ability, my technical ability, and my personality interact with one another, influence each other, form composite abilities, and combine to form that which is me. What better symbol to use for the composition of things both artistic and technical than something familiar to both artists and programmers - the RGB color system. The colors red, green and blue, as well as their composites are woven into the site on many levels. On one level, the symbol of overlapping red, green and blue circles is always visible on some part of the page. On another level, each section of the site is associated with either a primary or composite RGB color. On yet another level, each individual pixel of the site is composed of RGB values. The primary colors have been associated with the sections of the site about my art, my programming, and myself. The composite colors have been assigned such that the sections of the site represented by the primary components of the composite color bear significance to the section represented by the composite. To strengthen the associations between related sections of the site, the navigation buttons have been visually linked together in a way reminiscent of nodes in graph theory. This symbolism of colors and visual links is repeated in the sub-menus appearing at the top of each section of the site.  |