Business as Usual
I've been doing web design all day, and the nice thing about web design is that you have something to show for it when it's all over and done with. Something easily sharable, because it's web design. Unless, of course, you're having difficulties with cross-browser compatibility and with window size, and with enough problems like those you actually have a very limited audience.
But enough of the complaining. If you can see these, you might be interested. First off is what I coded this morning, a drag-and-drop javascript paragraph reorganizer. Go see. It only works in Firefox, right now. It may be useful in some CMS eventually (although there are better functions out there for the same purpose, none of them were coded by me). This was a very difficult project, involving lots of stuff that I hadn't done before. I learned a lot.
(In case you were wondering, random bits of javascript in here were pulled from all over the web, notably Quirksmode and Robert Nyman. I'm sure there are other bits, but I don't remember which.)
The second page doesn't have anything stolen, except for a picture from my sister. It actually contains a bit of content that people might be interested in, about the general process by which I edit photos in Photoshop. It's an image gallery, pretty much, with shiny html and css, and some spiffy javascript functionality. (Nothing impressive. In fact, I could probably do it a lot nicer, if I cared to.) But it was a fun visual design and implementation project. The thing about web design is that it involves tons of different technologies. You might need to know a bit about object-oriented programming, typography, graphic design, html, css, database management… All sorts of stuff. It becomes a bit much to hold in your head. The limitation on this second page isn't browser issues — it seems to work pretty well in all major browsers. The problem is window size: I have a 850 pixel wide image, plus a menu, that comes to easily over 1024 pixels wide. Luckily, I have my monitor set to 1280. But Other people may not be that fortunate. Poor other people.
Anyway, enjoy. If you have Firefox and the right window size, respectively.