RapidColor

You may have noticed (or you may not) that mattdetails.com keeps rapidly changing colors.  It’s an ongoing inspirational search for colors, and I’ve got mattdetails.com setup in the background to accept my inspiration with little maintenance or changes.

Advice: Check the date

Make sure to check the date of an article before you spend anytime reading it or actually integrating the code that is inside the article.  I love alistapart.com and use it for references quite a bit - but if you ever need a suckerfish drop down I would recommend not going to or following the alistapart.com article on it.  You’ll thank me later.

This has been a Public Service Announcement brought to you by you’re friend Matt Johnson.

P.S. I might write an article about how I updated the suckerfish script to work with the old ALA article.

Career, passion, future

Many of the people that I meet in real life tend to ask me what I do for a living - you know who I’m talking about too - when you try to explain to them they go “oh”.  Thats about the end of that.  But depending on who it is, would depend on what I say.  For someone who is most likely computer literate - you know the younger crowd - I tell them I’m a designer for the web.  “A web designer?” - Well yeah pretty much.  But I don’t really get to express how cool this fact really is.  I mean, I get to work from home on a computer all day, designing really simple, functional yet creative things, for money.  It took me 5 years to get where I am today - a full-time designer on the brink of being a creative director over seeing a couple other designers.  I think that is the most exciting idea ever - collaborating together with 2 or 3 designers and developers on a single project - all working to achieve the same goal.