John Ziebro

I arrived in Florida on Monday to see Sarah and my parents. It is great to be down here again, and very relaxing. Sarah and I explored Manasota State park and saw some dolphins along the beach. We also went up to Sarasota last night and took in the night-life. Wish Dave could be here too, but nothing is ever perfect right? Pops is happy that I am here because he doesn’t have to take care of Sarah’s new Macbook when I am around, but hopefully, by the time I leave, Sarah will be an expert with it. On a side note, I received straight As in all my class last semester which was nice to find out.

This design for ziebrophotography.com allows clients to choose which image sizes they wish to print based on the package they have purchased. While there are other screens involved in the process (login, thumbnail gallery, and finalization) this screen has the main functionality. I am interested in seeing if you would make any changes to it. Feel free to leave comments, click the image for a larger view.

I replaced the original design image. The current image takes into account reaching the limit of images you can add to a package, editing images added to each package, a help link and finalizing the choices. Note that some elements will not always be visible. (The Finalize button will not show up until all image selections have been filled.) I am trying to decide if I should try to do this with javascript and php or just completely in Flash.

The semester is over! It feels great to be done with final projects and exams. Ill be working over Christmas break, visiting friends and also getting my portfolio together for a review next semester. The review will cover Intro to Drawing, Life Drawing, 2 and 3 Dimensional Design classes. Hopefully, I will do well… we’ll see. On a side note, I have one final project to post that we had to work on outside of class but still turn in at the end; a photographic alphabet. I tried to stick with a industrial theme. Lets see if you can pick the letters I had to photoshop to make them work.

Here is the my final project for Typography I. Click it for a larger view!

The requirements were as follows: ‘Full-color photographic imagery (choose proportion: 16″ x 16″, 14″ x 22″ or 11″ x 22″)’

I ended up creating the design in a 14″ x 22″ format and used C=95 M=3 Y=0 K=35 (blueish hue) and C=0 M=100 Y=39 K=3 (redish hue) as the primary colors. These details are pretty boring so Ill shut up and let you gaze on its beauty.

On a final note, Joyce, I bet you will like this project. As you always say… “Girls don’t like it unless its in color.” Well I hope your happy!

I just installed ActiveCollab for use with freelance graphic and web design work. It is a great project management tool. For those of you who are familiar with Basecamp by 37Signals, ActiveCollab is an open source version that can be run on your own server. The installation was simple, but it does require PHP5 and MySQL with Innodb support. Eli Foner has a great write-up on the the benefits of it. He even provides a installation guide.