Welcome to Grant Stavely's home
page release 2. The actual word based content of this
page has changed very little from it's predecessor, Quasilateral,
but the site graphics and layout have been completely
revamped. Because I am teaching myself, insight after
insight continues to advance my abilities and hence this
site's possibilities.
Constant tweaking punctuated by major updates is my goal.
If server space is available to me, I will leave dumped
designs online as I have done with Quasilateral in the
true style of the original "internet".
From now on, updates will be listed here as to the
advances I have made and the additions to beginnigs so
that I can give some sense of the progression made since
the beginning of June when I first sat down to sketch out
a design.
10.09.99
- I have
recently installed BeOS on my computer and I am experimenting
with the powerful graphics OS. Unfortunately, it does not yet support
the network interface with which I share a cable modem so....
Windows wise, I have replaced
the entire shell with a program called LiteStep,
making my computer's GUI very, very customizable. The rest of
my time at my computer is spent playing Quake 3
Arena. I am also back to using ICQ
regularly - check me @ 5489690.
9.10.99
- After a complete lack
of anything usefull to add recently, I find myself
reopening these files to mention
the recent addition of a cable modem
to my apartment.
This means a permanent IP and
possibly (if I feel the
need) a personal url. Known bugs
in this page include - too much text, not enough
content, no 'come-back' potential,
and the occasional utter lack of compelling design.
Compensation is on the way...
8.5.99 - Server
problems allowing me to
only update existing files and not allowing me to
create new ones has mysteriously
gone away. The new
artwork is now online and I am back to working on the content. A new favs page is in the
works with images and sound. I am also planning to
digitizing the demo tape of my band
Curious Yellow and
creating a page for it. Keep comin' back!
7.25.99 - Yesterday was portfolio review day for my
admission to the Imaging and Digital Arts major at
UMBC. I updated (read foobarred)
this page by accidentally saving over it, downloading
it from webjump and uploading the new version without
removing the banner frame at the top. This caused the
page to not load so UMBC got nothing. zip. nada. 404error. I'll never forget
the moment when a friend called and said "Hey
man, what's up with your site? It's not working or
something..."
7.19.99 - I have
been reading all the literature I can get my hands on
concerning cascading style
sheets and graphic web design to speed up page
loading. The style sheet ref page has been revamped and a new logo is in the works which can
be seen on the bottom of all the pages now. I am
still in the process of tweaking it both
compositionally and lowering download time. Stay
tuned...
This site is best viewed on a computer with a monitor.
Specifially, this site is best viewed on my computer
and monitor, not because they are incredible pieces of
hardware (they aren't) but because I created the web site
on them. The images load faster, the window is the right
size, and I am here to explain away any mistakes. The
text you are reading probably looks a tad different from
the way it looks for me in Windows98 running IE 5.0 with
the link underlining turned off at a screen resolution of
600x800 at true color (millions of them in fact)
and there is a possiblility that it looks a lot
different. Cross-platform support is my next project -
the Mac donation hotline is open and operators are
standing by.
Grant Stavely
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