Monthly Archives: June 2008

Making progress on the homepage

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 30, 2008
After two frustrating-yet-exciting days spent with Dreamweaver and Photoshop, I am finally making progress. It turns out that my new web page layout is fairly complex, involving three columns (two overlapping, which gets complicated) and quite a bit of image reprocessing. But I have figured out how to do it, and have happily [...]
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By Tien Chiu | Published: June 29, 2008
Today’s my 38th birthday, and I’m celebrating it by going out to Watercourse Way (a very romantic hot tub place with gorgeous rooms) with Mike, followed by dinner with a few friends at my favorite Thai restaurant. I was mentally writing a long, deeply philosophical essay on life during my bike ride with Mike yesterday, but [...]
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HTML and CSS and Flash, oh my!

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 28, 2008
Just a quick note to say that I’m working on implementing the design for my new homepage.  It’s waaaay more complicated than I expected, and I’m having to tackle it in layers, learning the CSS and HTML as I go.  I’ve been sitting here with Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Web Design in a Nutshell (fantastic reference, btw), [...]
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On being an artist

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 26, 2008
Meg wrote an interesting post in her blog, about what questions artists ask themselves about their practice. I rather flippantly responded with one of my favorite Dr. Seuss quotes, If you never did, you should: These things are fun, and fun is good. Flippant, yes, but serious as well: to me, being an artist is not something [...]
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About Drupal

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 24, 2008
Sherri commented, “I’m really curious about Drupal and a little confused with how you will use it with your website.” It occurs to me that perhaps I have been mumbling a little too incoherently of late, so let me try to explain what Drupal is: Drupal is a content management system, meaning roughly that it’s a way [...]
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