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Here’s the way I want things to work out over the course of the next year and a half: I’m going to take a 5 hour chemistry class over the summer in order to be able to fulfill all additional graduation requirements during the fall semester. This means I’ll have my BS in computer science in December and be done with school for the time-being. After that I will take some time to visit my family in Germany — I haven’t seen them in a couple of years and would like to before I dive into my career. All of this time I’ll be working on my portfolio (for web work) so that I can find a decent (and fun; fun is very important) job in the San Francisco Bay area. This means improving and fine-tuning the XHTML and CSS knowledge I already have, but also getting a much better feel for design.

I think one of the biggest challenges will be getting the ideas in my head to be accurately converted into a PSD; there’s always been something lost in the translation because I “build” them differently depending on if I’m thinking about a design or actually trying to create it with Photoshop.

While I have a very heavy course-load this semester I’m still finding the time to do whatever I can in my free time. Currently I’m reading CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by Andy Budd, which is an incredible book. So far it seems to be the most practical CSS book I’ve ever read, maybe I’ll be able to give a full review of it once I finish.

That’s it for now, I’ll keep you updated.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 18th, 2007 at 9:19 pm and is filed under Books, CSS, Career, Design.