http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog As if I have any news to post. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:12:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's that time of year when grad school decisions have been made and word of those decisions is SLOWLY making its way to the people it pertains to. Despite the slowness I am pleased to say that I've only received good news so far! I'm accepted as a ... http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2010/03/life/grad-school After several months of searching I have found a job! And as an architect, no less. I'm now an "Associate" (read Junior Architect) at Daniel Frisch Architecture. We're located in Midtown Manhattan, which is wonderful because it not only means that I get to go into the ... http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2010/01/life/new-job I am now a resident of Brooklyn, NY!  After months of living at my parent's house in Michigan I have relocated to beautiful Williamsburg.  I already feel more creative and productive just from being able to walk down a city street in the morning to get coffee and a bagel. So, ... http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/10/life/relocation 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 ... http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/09/site-updates/over-the-hood 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 ... http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/09/site-updates/under-the-hood I intend for this site to be mostly a professional sort of site but dedicated to artistic pursuits. I am starting on a new project, one that may or may not be of interest to anyone but myself. But what is a personal blog for if not self-involvement? I generally suck ... http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/08/cooking/cooking 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 ... http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/08/site-updates/outsell-dealer-marketing-and-equilibrium-creative-work-added I recently completed a website for Equilibrium Creative at http://time4eq.com Equilibrium is a creative marketing consultancy with some pretty major clients (like GE, American Family Insurance, Ford, etc.)  It was a fun website to do because it's essentially a portfolio website but with some added functionality.  I also completed a brochure ... http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/08/web-work/new-websites 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 ... http://www.hattiestroud.com/blog/2009/08/site-updates/welcome