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Month of September

For part of the month of September I would like to use my blog as a platform and a landing page to spread the news of the services that I can provide for a company.

Let’s start with my overall Classification

I am A Freelance Front End Developer!

I have done a lot of work for proprietary clients and below are samples of that work. Please follow the link

Sunshine Records

Refined G music

Wireframe Sample

Portfolio website

AJAX sample site

Some of these sites will only be viewed properly in a webkit browser or Firefox. Although I can create a website with cross browser compatibility.

So what’s the deal here?

I am looking to expand and develop my portfolio, bring more awareness and notarity to my business.

The End Game

I would like to either obtain a full time position or contract position, In Chicago IL or remote as:

• Front End Developer
• Jr Developer
• UI Developer
• Web Designer

My Qualifications

• 3 years of web design
• 2 years of web development
• Proficient in; Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash
• Scripting Languages: XTHML, CSS2, JavaScript/ JQuery, AJAX, .PHP validation

Learning

• HTML5
• CSS3
• ASP.NET
• EXT JS

I attend classes at:

The Academy of Art University

Sitepoint

Lynda.com

W3schools.com

In the near future

• I would like to be building mobile applications for the web, web applications, databases and CMS

How can you contact me?

You can send an inquiry through my main site at:

Contact

or you may email me at: tj@neweragraphics.biz

773 -741-3340

As Always you can visit my main site for up to date news and information about myself as a “freelancer” and my company.

WWW.NEWERAGRAPHICS.BIZ

Or you can follow me on my Twitter page

New Era Webdesigns

Please feel free to refer me to any individual or corporation that can use my services.

Muhuhahahaha (EVIL LAUGHTER) / HTML 5 TUTS LIVE ON SITE POINT

So our fearless leaders of the web development world:
Sitepoint
Are hosting a 2 week long stretch of HTML 5 tutorials for
Developers who are interested. The videos are about $14 to join. Still I haven’t seen much but its only been one day though.

Supposedly this HTML5 coupled with CSS3 is suppose to do some really neat things. In the first video they threw around a term called the “CANVAS ” Element. This Canvas element is suppose to allow you to be able to make changes to photos and draw on a web interface program that connects with your website. The Mechanics of that is unknown as of yet.

There are also suppose to be gradients, lights, text shadowing, less CASCADING in the cascading style sheet, Easier DOM (Document Object Manipulation) for JavaScript. I am kind of breezing through this because there were 3 vids that you actually probably find on YouTube that really didn’t give much information just an over view of what we will be covering.

However I am willing to run my mouth and share what I have learned with the development community—- for a small fee of course 😉 !!!!! Muhuhahahahahaha —- there goes that evil laughter again.

So I am greezing my palms and excited about the next few lessons perhaps I will get more substance information about the semantics and what not!!!

You can check out some examples of HTML5 usage on this site
http://html5gallery.com/
HTML5GALLERY.COM

With the exception of the Canvas tool… from the examples on the Gallery site I haven’t seen much of anything that JavaScript and JQuery hasn’t done already…but we shall see!!!

Till the next tutorial….Keep researching!!

T M Johnson
Web Designer/Developer
http://neweragraphics.biz
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CSS3 & HTML 5 “A dream or a simple fantasy?”

I was thumbing through some material when I embarked on a “New Era” in design: “CSS3”. Now for many designers this is old news or fairly common news, but many designers bogged down by the demands of CSS2/ JavaScript/ My SQL and browser compatibility expectations across: Chrome, Safari, Mozilla, and IE don’t really have the time to delve into CSS3 and learn more.

Changes to the Box Model

Well this is a quick reference guide to give a little insight on the soon to be new platform in web design. One of the things that interests me most about the “CSS3” formatting is the amends that it has made for the Box Model! As many designers already know the box model is not perfect and it can get kind of cumbersome with the floats, padding, margins and resizing.

In CSS3 you can make use of column width and column gap. So you can quite easily size 3 different columns, decide the gap of space between them, the margins the padding and have them all under one tag. Take this paragraph mark up below.

P#cols

-moz-column-width: 13em;

-webkit-column-width: 13em;

-moz-column-gap: 1em;

-webkit-column-gap: 1em;

}

I know the mark up looks a bit foreign but there is a great tutorial on Webdesignermag.co.uk that can help you turn an ordinary web page into a sparkling CSS3 page.

Click here for tutorial

Now the actual launch of full usage of CSS3 is currently still in its testing phasing and you can keep up with that by visiting this website down below:

CSS3.info

Browser support is limited to: Mozilla’s firefox and firefox Beta, Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari, mainly web-kit browsers support the new technology. Are you not surprised that Internet Explorer is not on this list?

So in total I want to give you a laundry list of wonderful new advancements to come from using CSS3: Box shadows, easier rounded boxes, multi color and image borders and much more!

Borders

• border-color
• border-image
• border-radius
• box-shadow

Backgrounds

• background-origin and background-clip
• background-size
• multiple backgrounds

Color

• HSL colors
• HSLA colors
• opacity
• RGBA colors

Text effects

• text-shadow
• text-overflow
• word-wrap

User-interface

• box-sizing
• resize
• outline
• nav-top, nav-right, nav-bottom, nav-left

Selectors

• attribute selectors

Basic box model

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• overflow-x, overflow-y

Generated Content

• content

Other modules

• media queries
• multi-column layout
• Web fonts
• speech

This post was brought to you by: NewEraWebdesigns / neweragraphics.biz/ new web site coming soon!!

50 Eye-Catching Web Design Interface

Can you say Wowsers!! Saw this really great article on: designfollow.com today. This is by far one of my favorite web design, graphic design websites. The information is so useful and relevant and not overly technical like: Sitepoint….no dis but if I was more of a programmer I would love the site. Anyways….below is the article

Also check out NewEraWebdesign’s latest work….

Splash page

Nizm of refinedgmusic has commissioned us to design his website and we humbly accept!!

http://www.refinedgmusic.com/

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In this post featuring several very talented web designers from DeviantArt. All of these inspiring website examples are fresh and new, for previous june month so you can see current web design interface trends. I must be honest I really love all of these sites, I like current trending and research made me want to get my hands dirty with some new design too. Carefully watch every detail – some designs are very simple, but white space is used very efficiently, creating outcome to look really professional. I enjoyed every pixel in these designs and hopefully this article and talented works will make you inspired too! more…

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Being a black woman developer… Are things harder for us?

This is certainly not a blog about the ‘glass ceiling’ and how black women rarely get a fare shake in life. And we’re the victim waaa…waa..

No this is about fact over fiction.

This is about what I see with my own eyes.

Can I change the facts…or hang in their until I become undeniable.

Above it shows how Black Women report some of the highest statistics for Advanced education. This was from the US Labor Stats.

This is all fine, well and good but let’s get a little more microscopic and look at how Women in the IT field remain a disparity.

I read an article on Developer-world.com and the author remarked if you just take a quick scan in the office of any IT department you can see the scarcity of women in that field.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/women-in-technology-call-action-919

The article goes on to present a slideshow presentation of women who have worked long term in the IT field and what roles they play.

http://www.infoworld.com/%5Bprimary-term-alias-prefix%5D/%5Bprimary-term%5D/why-are-women-exiting-it-careers-773

So I’m not making this up. You can find more stats for yourself.

Now that we have the “problem” what’s the solution?

Personally in many instances I have shielded or shortened my name on a resume for fear that the employer would find it to ethnic and overlook my credentials. I’m certain most employers know I am making purposely changing information to reflect no gender, no race.

I’m appearing to be like Drake mixed with Pat off of Saturday Night live…u don’t know what I am.

That’s just one of the few things that I have done.

Some other organizations have attempted too begin networks and bridges to bring together Black Women and Technology.

The NCWIT
http://www.ncwit.org/
“National Center for Women & Information Technology”

As a Jr. Developer and a graphic designer…I move really well from creativity to technical/ business but with no large company backing who is going to really see my work?

I’m certain that other black women in this field feel the same way.

This is an issue that I would like to address, there are a lot of untapped resources in Black women with a technical background that I think corporate America is really dropping the ball on.

This is totally my opinion based on stats, facts, observation and experience. If you can prove me wrong…please do.

If you have additional..information…please provide it.

This is simply a piece on how its difficult to break into the field as Black woman..there are so many things that happens when dealing with clientele, people’s level of trust etc…etc….

As always your girl has provided her latest compositions as a part of the slideshow.
I hope you enjoy

T M Johnson
neweragraphics.biz

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Can the Black Community really progress collectively in this day and age?

New Era and TBM

Today I joined a forum/blog and partnered up with “Thoughts of Black Man” . Honestly I feel its about time that Black men start to see themselves as leaders, fathers, role models other than rappers, pimps and prison inmates.

Its time to Grow!

Question is…can it be done? Are we as a community ready to stop allowing mis education, slavery, media manipulation to stop tearing apart our families and communities w/o letting passion, rage, or greed come between us?

What is certain is we must atone!

We have to accept, acknowledge the hurt and contract the highest source of them all to get this accomplished: Jesus Christ.

The Organization is based out of NYC
And its headed by a black man
I attended a conference call with a lot of insightful, passionate, driven black people.

Please visit the site for more information on the owner and the features of this organization.

Check it out

NewEra and TBM

http://thetbm.org/home/

8 Cool sites that will help mature you as web designer/graphic designer

I put together a collection of really cool sites that have given me a lot of insight as a developer and designer.

This can help any designer/ developer on any level…achieve “well roundness”.

1. Sitepoint
http://www.sitepoint.com/

2. Behance
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Private-ommunity–FACE-GALLERY-/490127

3. Smashing Magazine
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

4. Design Follow

Home

5. Designers Talk
http://www.designerstalk.com/forums/register.php

6. Carsonified
http://carsonified.com/

7. GDUSA “Graphic designers USA”
http://www.gdusa.com/

8. AIGA
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/about

There are certainly a great deal more than these 8, many of them have back links to other resources that you can use to take your career to the next level. They also have forums, blogs and opportunities for you as a designer to write for them.

As always please feel free to check out my main site
neweragraphics.biz

Also you can follow me on twitter
http://twitter.com/NewEraWebdesign

Or you can catch me perusing the forums on the above sites.

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This Woman’s work

This week alone I have pumped out so many graphic related works. Some for my personal fufillment others for businesses, entertainers and so forth.

The intesity, learning and dedication will pay off.

I learn from my network of people as well as other designers, design forums and visuals I see in the media.

I can honestly say I love web design, graphic design and the financial accolades are worth the work. But with each day I know I need to go further and deeper to achieve excellence.

Website templates
http://neweragraphics.biz/biz_template/Template2.html

http://neweragraphics.biz/SlotMachineTabs/index.html

http://neweragraphics.biz/johnson_portfolio_8.3/template/template.html

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Advertising on your site!

So as we all know Google ad sense pretty much dominates when it comes to the world of having “advertising” on your site. There are many other ad groups that will pay you for ad hosting on your site..the one’s I’ve come across are “ad groups” and “black network” ….

Well there is another company that I’m not sure that you are aware of. i use them myself and they are pretty phenomenal.

VIP ADVERTS

They aren’t like trying to compete with Google ad sense they are just good at putting money back in the average consumer’s pocket.

http://www.vipadverts.com/

You can advertise or you can publish ads on this site.

It is free to publish

You get 30-70% commission on whatever you make in pay per click and impression. You get to set your own price so I would do a little bit of research on how pay per click and pay per impression works… but essentially its pretty much going to work how ad sense or ad networks…works.

You post the links on your site once you are done naming your price and walla…you have created a multiple stream of income for yourself on your site.

You can add this to any type of website as a simple widget or you can connect it to your BLOGGER SITE… WORDPRESS is currently being worked on. LOL…

You can see the ads on my site which offers web site design, web template, graphic design services
http://neweragraphics.biz

You can visit the site and read the FAQ for more information.
http://www.vipadverts.com/

I hope this has been helpful and I hope I can help to make you a little bit more CHING for your buck.

http://www.vipadverts.com/

WordPress or Joomla? Why and why not

I guess its true what they say…its hard out here for a pimp!!! When you trying to get the money for the rent!!

I’m working hard to take it to the next level as a developer and am currently working with a client who desires a CMS website. I have never done a CMS website and am not sure the magnitude of how long it will take and what it will entail…what bugs need to be worked out and so forth.

I’m doing my research and I came across some information on sitepoint regarding CMS web design formats.

Two choices seem to be the most highly debated. Should you use Joomla or should you use word press to create a site that allows: membership, forums, guessbook plug ins and so forth?

Joomla seemed like the obvious choice because when I visited the website the features already compacted into the web hosting were the ones I mentioned above.
http://www.joomla.org/

However a lot of developers pointed out that if you want to do a nice full fledge business website than Joomla is the ticket! However it’s written in .php…for a beginner developer this is scary!

http://herbertvandinther.com/joomla-or-wordpress-which-one-to-choose/

Than there is “wordpress” none for its blogging capabilities and although it has CMS features I’m worried that the site will look like an online magazine instead of a real website.

If anyone can offer any additional insight that would be great!

My knowledge base is mainly HTML, CSS, JavaScript/JQuery — I’m certain I can get around the templates possibly even integrate the two somehow.