A new perspective

I quit my work. So I Needed to show something new, how I am now, and forget that old portfolio that didn’t renewed over 5 years. The hardest part is already done. After months of trying to redesign the blog and portfolio, I finally get it, but there is a lot of work to do. The next step is to make the blog visible and adaptable to any device. “After that? Write interesting content, as well as new works, proyects and new articles.
Meanwhile, fix some bugs and polish some things a bit.

Articles may at first be a little cold and I can’t express very well, please be patient, I’m practicing, but everything will come.

Blog and Portfolio, the original idea

The original idea was to make a minisite to show my portfolio and promote myself as a designer and find a new job. As you all know, just before leaving my job, Tohoku earthquake hit and, well, all my plans changed a bit. Life here in Tokyo wobbled a bit and the main obvective was have something to show, well, it took me more time than I thought.
The minisite, with game included, is on the list of things to do after finding a new job. I promise it will be fun.
On the other side, I wanted to remove some personal area from the blog and focus on temas like design and programming, not only for others to read it, but to have it easily accessible for me too.

Problems

At first it was lack of time, working in Japan you have zero free time. When I started the blog and then the design and programming, the problems started. It was my first serious contact with WordPress and the biggest problem came when I write the blog in several languages, there are several plugins for do it and well, all have some bugs and I had to adapt all .php files for this situation.
On the other hand, when I started my career programming for Flash one of the reasons was that I didn’t want to rewrite the code for every browser. With Flash works in one, works in alls. So start dealing with floats and that stuff again was a bit chaotic, luckily me, I have good friends that helped me. For me it is still easier to program in ActionScript than HTML!

Solutions

I wanted to use certain things that I thought it was necessary, as a semantic code in HTML5, use the new CSS3, web fonts thanks Typekit, and a couple of things that remain on racks.
Learned a lot of things and test by failure and error. It was fun, especially after seeing the result.