Stucel - Web Design Studio

Yee pee I got one! (Evil laugh)

I've been pinged by my good friends at NavinoT in this post a while a go. Better late than never, so here it goes:

1. I grew up with Nintendo, Microsoft DOS, Microsoft Windows 95, Netscape Navigator, Michael Jordan and football (it's soccer).
2. My first website (it was a personal website) launched in 1998. It had a visitor counter in the footer and the content was center aligned because it's wicked cool back in those days.
3. I went to university and studied computer science in 1999. I was a big time slacker and the GPA was 2.74 / 4, and C mark on thesis.
4. My the-most one and only favorite game is Warcraft III. I played thousands of game since college (you can see why my GPA so high ha-ha). My first account is auto deleted by them (no login in 2 months) and this is my current one. I'm retired and enjoy watching top rank player replays.
5. In childhood, my dream profession is to be a real uber-elite computer programmer. Guess I never will be ;)
6. IT staff was my first real job. I worked in the big car radiator factory. Then after a week, I decided to chase my dream as a programmer on mobile value added short message service company for two and a half years.
7. My books in the rack are mostly programming (lots of PHP, Java, J2ME, Perl/CGI, Turbo Pascal, and lots of geek stuffs). I stop buying those topics a very long time a go and I'm planning to give it all to Toni. I never have Adobe Photoshop how-to book. I only interested in marketing / management book these days. But I like Reader's Digest.
8. I play guitar in regular basis (great for stucked inspiration). I played several instrument on high school band but never really expert one. I spent 1 year in a professional band, as a keyboardist. And the interesting part is: I can't read musical notation.
9. I quit my daily job without any preparation on Stucel business. I was young and naive :0
10. I don't eat lots of meat. Only chicken breast and a small slice of beef please. I don't eat pork, I really don't like pork.

I just found out (again) that this blog is using a modified copyright of moki theme! I don't know why people really can be evil, low life, no manner ><

I hate Auto Loan.

Internet Explorer 6 was released on August 27, 2001. This old buddy is still believed to have large cake of usage share of web browsers till today.

However, HTML and CSS authoring process for IE6 takes very special treatment for this every-web-designer's-favourite browser (sarcasm). I'm going to call it a feature, instead of pesky bug; because maybe that's why the world will always be in hunger for talented HTML author.

Everybody have their own secret sauce to workaround the IE6, but here's my 6 commandments that worth sharing:

First met in April 2004, I'm married to the lovely Lany in August 31, 2008.
Life would be very different from now on. It's full of fun, full of new inspiration and of course it's full of love. Thanks to the friends and relatives for the support!

I only have a few friends in the industry that studied design-related major, back in the university days. Take Kuswanto of Zeusbox Studio for example. He's a great illustrator and icon artist. He surprisingly was studying biological stuffs and I guess it is obviously far from design.

Before I took a plunge to the design industry. I was a full time programmer and it was the only job type I ever wanted since day one as a computer science student. It was more like a dream come true.
Web design was just a hobby to me. Love the blended art, technology and the fancy things since the rise of the internet.

I never regret the decision for not studying design. Despite I'm really bad with drawing, I found out that having a non-focus / spreading speciality, could turn out to be a great benefits in the industry.

Based on my experience, there are three types of website developer (this includes designer and programmer), and here they are ...

If you make websites then you should take the A list Apart's annual industry survey. If you wondering what's the survey result looks like, here's the last year's (2007).

"I took it. And so should you."

I like Mac, great for work, and everyday use. But sadly, I found 2 things that annoys me a lot, especially while I'm working. Here goes ...

Finder is Application

Finder always treated as an ordinary application instead of OS shell. I often find myself jeopardized in  + tab situation, because it's still have the Finder icon (even though there is no Finder Window that running at the moment).

Quick Look window size

When you have a folder filled with the last night party photos (landscape and portrait), you'll notice when you're in Quick Look mode browsing the photos, the Quick Look's window size is always the same (depends on the 1st item invoked). It should be auto resized depends on each items, so that we don't have to have something like this:

Do you have other annoying things about the mac?

"Damn, why it's so hard to design a website!" That's what my friend said two months ago, when he was trying to design his studio's website.

He's a logo guy, packaging guy and branding guru; he can imagine and sketch all the things in this world beautifully with great speed (from high detailed robots, monsters, flowers, super heroes, to Lord of the Rings guys). But! When it comes to website design, he is slow and the result is awkward and odd. Holy moly!

Why? Why on earth this could happened to him? Why it's so hard to do this 72 dpi thing with only couple of boxes, gradient and a bit of color scheme that is surely be a drop dead easy case to graphic designer degree guy like him?