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Jonathan Harris designs

Jonathan Harris — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:40:15 +0000

After nearly a year of talk about it, I have finally rebuilt Jonathandavidharris.co.uk. I started designing site when I was about 15 years old and enjoyed it ever since. I decided that I could make some money of the part time hobby and decided to setup a business out of it. Doing a degree in a related subject means that I am well suited to sort out web hosting, setting up server and writing server scripts. Jonathandavidharris.co.uk is a promotional web site for anyone who wishes to hire me as a web designer/developer. It has information on about me as a Professional, contact details and a full detailed list of projects I have completed before in the portfolio.

The bits I most like about page, which divides all it’s information into bullet fast loading tabs and has a nice fadeout effect on changing of tabs.This site is the most pride of this as it was in plan for nearly a year and it now finally finished. It was also built completely from the ground up by me.

So I have to requests of readers of this post.

Feedback
Any thoughts, ideas and generally how good or bad you thought of the site. Things if you were a customer you would like to see or things you may have seen in other places on the web. Any feedback is good, please feel free to comment on this post or use the site’s contact page.
Work
As I am still building up my portfolio, I am willing to work for extremely cheaply or even free. If you want to start a blog of your own, have a club or band you want a site for, feel free to contact me.

One thing that I am extremely happy about is that now if you do a search on google for Jonathan David Harris, I am the first result.

Here are some screen shots of the site has it was first created. It may change with time.

I’m blu

Jonathan Harris — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:22:54 +0000

There are few times in my life that I see something and my breath is taken away. I am massive fan of art but like many of us, I don’t have the time to go to galleries enough. Luckier enough, while watching diggnation, I saw a video that simply was amazed. The video is truly impressive, as it is seven minutes long animation. The animation was made by painting an image on a wall, taking a picture, repainting the wall and taking another picture. Consudering that for each second of film there could be as many as 26 frames, that is a lot of pictures. Even if they painted only 13 images a second, that could be as many as 5460 painting.

The video was by a morden artist called blu. Blu it turns out is a big deal in the art world and is famous for coming his images on public spaces on walls. Looking at his blog, I found he also did a massive painting on the side of the tate modern. I really enjoyed this painting, I look forward to seeing more from this artist.

Keeping myself busy

Jonathan Harris — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:53:01 +0000

Every time I write a blog on here, I always feel guilty for not having the time to write more on this blog. In truth I have too much going on in my life at the moment to keep a truly up to date blog. I also find that lots of the things I want to blog about feel a bit pointless. There are so many blogs out there, so what is the point of rewriting stuff that someone has already written like so many others. As I am keeping myself so busy, what have I been doing?

Well of course, I have had university work to do; I am working on my second year of my degree at the moment so I have had lots to do there. I created a couple of pieces of work that I was extremely proud of. For one of modules, I had to write a Java program which was a massive undertaking. The Java program was a simple piece of network mapping software. It worked out amazing; I can’t say I have been more proud of anything, work wise, than this. Check out a screenshot of it in action on my Flickr account.

Now that I do not have as much work to do, I think it is time to kick back and getting to having some fun. Of course, there are lots of things I can now do like to see films out, going drinking and the like I can now do. I have been enjoying talking to friends and really finding out what people have been up to, that has been amazing. The thing that really is getting to me, is that now that I have got used to working really hard on my university work, I it find it really hard to unwire and just chill out. It is funny that the first thing I wanted to do when all my work was over was to get back on my computer and start playing around with Spacedmonkey.

I think instead of just chilling out, for the next couple of weeks I am going to end up arm deep in writing for my many web sites. I have already added Live search to Spacedmonkey this blog. Try it out today, it really is cool. I also have lots of other plans. So watch this space for updates as I go and first looks at the cool stuff I am doing.