Hattie Stroud - News » Site Updates http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog As if I have any news to post. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:12:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Over the Hood http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/09/site-updates/over-the-hood http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/09/site-updates/over-the-hood#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:35:30 +0000 admin http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/?p=25 After fiddling with the technical side of the rollovers yesterday I decided I didn’t like the visual side of the rollovers.  So, I’ve changed the look of the category index pages.  I think they’re quite fetching now.

In other news, I made some corn fritters for lunch that were delicious.  Although I guess this is true of most things that have been fried.  Still, yum!

]]> http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/09/site-updates/over-the-hood/feed 0 Under the Hood http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/09/site-updates/under-the-hood http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/09/site-updates/under-the-hood#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:19:05 +0000 admin http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/?p=23 I’ve made a few more “under the hood” changes recently – mostly geared towards speeding up the rollovers, which have been bothering me.  At first I was using Dreamweaver’s default Javascript for rollovers which, fyi, is ridiculously inefficient and makes your html a huge mess.  Second attempt was using a jquery plugin to define a “rollover” class for the links (cleaner but still slow).  And now, finally, I have come around to using sprites for the navigation.  Sprites work by simply moving a background image instead of swapping it out.  You have one image file with both states of your rollover and use the css to define what part of the image is showing when.  It is speedy and also requires fewer image files, so less clutter.

Hooray for a:hover!

]]> http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/09/site-updates/under-the-hood/feed 0 Outsell Dealer Marketing and Equilibrium Creative work added http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/08/site-updates/outsell-dealer-marketing-and-equilibrium-creative-work-added http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/08/site-updates/outsell-dealer-marketing-and-equilibrium-creative-work-added#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:29:35 +0000 admin http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/?p=16 I have updated the graphic design section to include some professional work done for and through Equilibrium Creative, LLC.

The first of these projects is a series of email distributed ads for Chevy dealerships.  The second is a promotional website and brochure for Equilibrium.

I’m pretty excited to have both of these projects up because I feel like it is a good beginning to building my portfolio outside of the context of school projects.

]]> http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/08/site-updates/outsell-dealer-marketing-and-equilibrium-creative-work-added/feed 0 Welcome http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/08/site-updates/welcome http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/08/site-updates/welcome#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:31:21 +0000 admin http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/?p=7 Hello visitors and friends!

I have long wanted to add a news section to this website but only recently had the time to do so.  Ahh, the benefits of graduation.  I plan on posting updates here whenever I update the work on my site so if you’ve been checking my site every so often and happen to use a feed reader, I encourage you to add this feed for notifications.

If you are new to my site, welcome.  I hope that you’ll take a look around and enjoy my work.

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