A small side of Joel's World.
Besaid has been my personal site for 9 years now. This site saw me from the humble beginnings of knowing very little HTML and CSS. At first, I only owned Besaid.net, but in 2004 I had to close it down because I was going to get my college education. While in college, I missed having [...]
Starcraft is one of my favorite games out there. This project was a “sample product page” to be submitted to Blizzard Co. for a job position. You may ask yourself, what makes this so special? This project pushed CSS to the full extent by making it work in any type of resolution that the monitor [...]
But how did I get to this Design? I follow 1 simple process. This process consists on the following steps: First, I gather all the information that I want to use on my website and ask me the following questions: What Do I want to show on my Website? My Skills? My Personality? Both? It [...]
The idea for this project came in an unusual way. The project was first to be introduced only as a YouTube Channel. However, as I am with every project how can I take it further? A website was born. The Mug Show is an information website about topics that the user will have control over [...]
So, you are a designer and you currently are looking for a job, clients, etc. However, you can’t be looking for jobs and clients all the time correct? Well you can do like me. I decided since I have a bit of more “free” time because of my current clients to hold the projects, because [...]
It seems like just yesterday, I held my Portfolio’s bottle… Now is all grown up to Version 3. This new version of my portfolio breaks all the boundries from the past and also is a new milestone for me. The portfolio offers many new features, that I have tried with clients/personal projects, but never to [...]
And the process begin to completely redefine the image of my website, typefasterjoel. The new version was carefully designed in order to ensure an better viewing for the user. This new site is a challenge, for me. When I started the process of doing the new version I asked myself a couple of questions: “How [...]
They say French is the language of Love. Well, I don’t know about that, but what I do know is that is really intruguing and it just sounds cool. So my journey restarts, from where it left off. I took a year of French in High School, so now I want to fully speak it. [...]
It seems that Flash is making a comeback. With adobe releasing a beta testing of their new program Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder, this could mean that Flash is not going to be taken down. You may ask yourself, when did Flash fell? With the new hype of Web 2.0 many have steered away from [...]
Let’s face it. That picture is not your typical interview. Or maybe it is. However, in current times, the interview process changed dramatically. The economy is really low and slowly recovering, and companies who are trying to hire new employees need someone that will become an asset to the company and not a burden. But [...]