About my website

I’m a living and breathing expressionist and this is my canvas. I’ve been designing and learning the Internet language for about 7 years now. Web designing is more than just a hobby to me. It is safe to say that I’ve found a niche for myself that makes me happy. I hold no limitations with what I can express. I bear no bounderies with what I can create. This is my little nook in the cold world known as the World Wide Web. I share this space with the operaglasses family. I can never fully thank Elle who is a coding genius as she is wonderful.

Coding for this site, initially took me days. I had to study CSS while familiarizing myself to Textpattern to get the look that I wanted. The perfectionist in me resulted to sleepless nights and sporadic headaches. At the end, it’s really all worth it.

But it’s safe to say that at this point, I’ve learned a lot about web design. Of course, there are so many things I still want to know. And looking at various CSS galleries leave me inspired every time.

I created this weblog for my own personal space wherein I have the power to have as much as 3 layout changes in a month. I don’t do link exchanges unless I know you or I like your site. If you want to suggest a link, feel free to use the contact form and tell me about it.

This blog talks about anything. And because I actually enjoy talking about myself and my misadventures, blogging has been such a wonderful outlet. You will also notice how I enjoy putting up photos in some of my blog entries. Please don’t steal or use them without permission.

Credits and resources

Here is the list of all the programs, scripts, people, tool, etc. that I might have used in the past, still continue to use at certain times, and those that I can’t live without.

Graphic Manipulation: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator and Image Ready CS2 for all the graphics, some of my textures from tre-xture, brushes from these sites. (However, the use of textures and brushes vary from one layout to another. I refuse to use these free brushes as often.)

Tools: Textpattern for the journal software, Feeddigest for easy feed to site syndication, SmartFTP for my kickass ftp client, Extreme Tracking for my tracker. Del.icio.us for my links, Last.fm for my playlist.

Miscellaneous Scripts: Peter Kerl’s Citagen QuoteGenerator script, Fast Online Users for my online users, Cut and Paste Scripts for my counter.

Textpattern Plugins:ajw_comment_num, ajw_comment_alt and ajw_favatar plugins by Andrew Waer, rss_superarchive by Rob Sable, rei_recent_comments by Reiner Ladan, Beginning plugin for Textpattern, zem-image-replacement for the titles as images by Threshold State, dru_chatometer and dru_recent_articles plugins by Drew McLellan

Host: And Elle for the generous host that she is. If I did forget someone, something, kindly tell me immediately.

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Careless hurry may cause endless regret.

Hire me

I'm also a freelance graphic artist and am competent with Adobe Illustrator, 3D Studio Max and Adobe Photoshop. I'm available for small freelance graphic design projects. Price is negotiable. If you want more samples of my work or an even more extensive portfolio, email me at pearl.ganzon@gmail.com. Feel free to forward your questions and inquiries over that address as well.


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Past layouts of Pearl.Operaglasses

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Past layouts from past websites

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