This year my mother got a Nikon D3000 for her birthday. Over the past couple of weeks as the weather has gotten warmer I have decided to start messing around with it and taking and editing some pictures. Here are some of the recent pictures mostly close up shots. Let me know what you think!

Baystate Championship Wrestling is an independent wrestling promotion based in eastern Massachusetts. My good friend Sean used to wrestle with them and is still doing some video work for them. He suggested me to them as a freelance web designer/ graphic designer. Recently I started working on their website. It presented a bit of a challenge since I am not that big of a wrestling fan, so it was interesting researching wrestling promotions and getting that look and feel. As the website is right now it is not “complete”. All the main pages are up and running, however it still needs some graphical items to tie it together. But overall it seems to be working well. You can view the website here.

Its been awhile since I’ve posted, there’s been a lot going on in the month of August/September. The most important thing being my sisters wedding. The wedding was perfect, went off without any problems at al, good weather, good food, interesting dancing. The week before her wedding I spent it in Key West Fl, for Sean’s 21st birthday/ graduation present. That vacation was amazing after dealing with “Hurricane Fay.” I’ll post a couple of pictures on the next page. Other then the wedding and Key West I’ve been busy moving, and juggling three freelance jobs. Its a lot of work but I’m handling it well and all of the projects are fun and creative. Hit the jump for the pictures.

So this supposedly is the closest I could come to getting this web site to look like me. I saw the post on metafilter and thought I would give it a shot. What do you guys think?

Over the past couple of weeks I have been updating my web site as well as learning and implementing CSS (Cascading Style Sheets ) into my design. Now since I had little clue of how CSS worked and how to design with it I was a little intimidated to say the least. After reading some articles online, watching some examples on youtube and looking at some examples I got the basics down and was able to get the gist of it. While searching for examples and information I had to wade through a lot of websites that weren’t all that helpful or were to vague to figure out, so I decided to compile a list here so people could have easy access to many of the sites.

1. w3schools.com-Where to get all the basic info that you need to get started. Also check out the example pages where you can view and test out some of the basic CSS skills.
2. Youtube tutorial-Its a little long at a little under 40 mins. But it goes step by step starting for the beginning of how to create a page using CSS.
3. DynamicDrive-Where I figured out how to get the menu and other examples to work right and implemented. They also have a lot of other information on web design.
4. Smashing Magazine-This is more a collection of links but is been a very good resource for me. They show you good designs, layouts, and navigation along with having  links to how to create different things like graphs, forms, and image galleries. Keep checking back here for good CSS techniques and other design software.

*Bonus little bit of information that I was having trouble with. When I was entering different lines of information the line spacing was way off. So to get the line information you just enter this into your CSS and then add the class to the lines that are spaced to far apart. Just change the percentage to what you want:

p.small {line-height: 90%}