August 31st, 2008 by Chris under Design, Entertainment, Me, Movies

Today I bought my favorite animated film of all time and thought I would share a bit about it in case the 4-7 readers I have on here are interested (lol).
It is called “5 Centimeters Per Second” and is a film by acclaimed director, Makoto Shinkai.  Shinkai has also created my other favorite animated films [...]

I just wanted to share this really amazing and easy to use gallery script.  I am going to be putting it in my new website using a wordpress plugin that uses its scripts.
The name is highslide and it has several uses.  It allows for easy display and cycling of pictures and images you post in [...]

April 9th, 2008 by Chris under Design, Links, chrisyerkes.com

That is mainly what I did this week.  I carefully took screenshots of all my websites, then saved them in a variety of formats, including an 8.5" by 11" PDF for my secondary portfolio.  I still have more samples I want to include, except they aren’t done yet (one being my new portfolio site and [...]

April 2nd, 2008 by Chris under Design, Studio-CY, chrisyerkes.com

So this week, I was supposed to come up with a better self promotion idea.  I only came up with 2…which are almost the same thing. I think it is VERY hard to promote yourself well, especially if you are just starting out with little work to choose from.  I am a web designer and [...]

March 26th, 2008 by Chris under Design, Links, chrisyerkes.com

This week I worked a bit more on tweaking my website design that was chosen in class.  At first, this was not the design I really liked, but now that I have had a chance to develop it a bit more, it is becoming my favorite of the three.  It just needed a bit of [...]