So, I know I haven't been the best at updating, but I have been working on the web some. I am creating a portfolio for all my work (traditional and digital). I'm almost done. I need to create a website section of the portfolio and write my "about me" and then I believe I'll be done. I will announce the URL here when I release it to the public.

Sorry for falling off the face of the earth but senior year is just as intense work-wise as junior year so I don't have extraordinary amounts of time to be online. I am taking a graphic design class this year, so maybe with my free time I can do some designing or coding.

I'm hoping to do something with the site layout again. I'm tired of this one and I feel like I've improved some from the summer. Plus I now have access to Illustrator. Maybe I can make a kick-butt vector of some sort, we'll see. Oh, and, the site is back online. I have fixed the problem. I won't go into the details.

Lastly, I have implemented a rudimentary spam filter system to my comment system (coded my muah) because of the exorbitant amount of spam that is plaguing my poor database. (I literally spent 45 minutes deleting spam from the DB.) You now have to enter a randomly generated number in order for your comment to process. I'm very proud of myself btw. This is the first steps toward me learning PHP for realz. For too long I have relied on my brother! Hopefully this will work though. I will monitor my database this weekend and see if it helps.

Hopefully I will revive myself. Stay tuned for more?

Edit: (9/28/08) I am well aware that the site besides the home page is down. My host changed my site's server and something must have gone funky in the process. I will try to resolve this as soon as I can but I am bogged with school work so I don't know when that will be. Sorry for the downtime!

And you thought I wouldn't keep my promise... I'm back again with another update before I leave for a few days of vacation. Nowhere exciting. I did a little maintenance recently. Fixed an error with the tutorials preview box and the description for the tutorials page was wrong, so I fixed that. Just little stuff. Anyway:

First, there is a new layout up called Target Practice. It features a bullseye. Whoo. You should still check it out.

Secondly, I added (again like I promised) another Photoshop tutorial. This one is a little more advanced: How to make crumpled paper. And no, it's not just crumple paper in your hand and viola. It's making realistically crumpled paper in Photoshop from nothing. Pretty neat and nifty.

Lastly, we have a new link exchange: Aesthetics Designs. Welcome!

I am going to try to update once more before school starts again for me in September. I'll try to make it a more epic update. I still have a lot of summer work to do though, but I will try. Until then.