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 gatheringthe
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!
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- Premiere
- Final Cut Pro
- After Effects
- Live Motion
- MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.)
- Virtual PC
- Appleworks
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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
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