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Welcome To My Site

About This Site

I am a designer, illustrator, and animator, so the primary purpose of this site is to highlight my skills and experience. I enjoy the challenge of putting together a coherent, functional, and user-friendly web site with nice design touches. I have a special love for cartooning and animation, and am proficient at print design and prepress setup.

I also have substantial experience as a print production manager and a proposal production coordinator. This is a "multi-tasking" world, and my years of experience have prepared me for that.

This site is fairly simple since I was compelled to get one up quickly. It will undergo frequent revision and updating as I use my skills and knowledge to enhance it. I built it in Dreamweaver 3.0, and used Fireworks 3.0 to optimize all the graphics except the navbar graphics, which were optimized in Image Ready 3.0. I used CSS for the formatting. I have worked in Dreamweaver 4.0, and will be acquiring it for home use in the very near future. I have also built sites with Home Page and GoLive (I have GoLive! 5.0), and built my very first site with raw HTML.

Frame Sets

No frames in this site (yet), but I'm a practiced user of frame sets, having built them in raw HTML code as well as applications like Dreamweaver. When I find an appropriate application for frames on this site, I will add them. Otherwise, I will have frame set-driven pages on my alternate site (currently under construction and not yet linked to this site).

Asset Gathering and Asset Management

I'm very good at what I call “asset gathering”—the art of pulling together not only all the assets needed for a project, but also the appropriate and designer friendly version of the assets.

I'm relatively new to asset management applications, but have had some exposure to Canto Cumulus. I'm very eager to become a proficient user of such applications, and will even ad one to my home applications repertoire when time and budget allow.

This site will undergo frequent revisions in capabilities, and probably in design, though less frequently than with capability upgrades.

I welcome your comments on both my site and its content. Please feel free to contact me at rreilly656@aol.com. Also note that my resume page serves as my primary contact page as well

Please note that I have a secondary site under construction which will be linked to this one. It will be my “testbed” site for experimenting with new web designs, applications, animations, and other design material. I will also use it to post material of interest to me personally, which will help give the user a more complete idea of who and what I am. One never knows what life experiences and knowledge could prove useful in a given work environment.

What other skills do I have?

Please check my resume for details on my work background, skills and experience.

I will also be providing periodic updates on new applications I've mastered and samples of my work. For now, please take a look at work samples in illustration, design, animation, and cartooning.

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My Command of Applications

These are some of the applications I am proficient in:

  • Photoshop 6.0/ImageReady 3.0
  • Illustrator 9.0
  • Flash 5
  • Dreamweaver 4.0/Fireworks 4.0
  • Adobe GoLive! 5
  • Equilibrium DeBabilizer
  • Quark Xpress 4
  • Pagemaker 7
  • MS Word suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

In addition, there are a number of applications I have used in the past:

  • Generator for Flash
  • Macromedia Director (up to 7.0)
  • SoundEdit and SoundForge
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Caligari TrueSpace (3D)
  • Persuasion
  • Animation Stand (for high-end animation)

I have also had occasion to use:

  • Acrobat 4.0 to create PDFs
  • Dreamweaver/UltraDev
  • UNIX
  • Apache server configuration software
  • JavaScript.

What I currently have available on my system

I have a Macintosh G-4, 400Mhz, 100GB, 832MB RAM, DVD-CD player. I have a scanner and CD-burner, and currently rely on its internal modem to get online.

I have the following softwares:

  • Quark Xpress
  • Pagemaker
  • Adobe Photoshop/Image Ready
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign
  • Dreamweaver/Fireworks
  • Flash
  • GoLive!
  • Premiere
  • Final Cut Pro
  • After Effects
  • Live Motion
  • MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.)
  • Virtual PC
  • Appleworks

News
(a progress report on myself)

Latest News:
Am currently Webmaster for NEH's EDSITEment web site

Sites I've Worked On:

FAPMIP

EDSITEment
(National Endowment for the Humanities)

American Red Cross

American Chemical Society

National Education Association

Fannie Mae