Just updated Mark’s photography portfolio with a few new images and some minor interface enhancements, including the ability to view his galleries in a slideshow format. If you have not taken the time to check out his excellent photographs, I highly suggest that you do. Please visit marktenekjian.com. Thank you!

Just launched a new site! This is a photography portfolio site for Wilford Scott of Washington, DC. View screen caps on my portfolio page or visit the site directly.

This is a resource that was recommended to me by a fellow designer at one of my previous jobs. Initially I just signed up for their email newsletter devoted to Mac-based “Quicktips” about Adobe Creative Suite. It is comprised of random features and time-saving tips in CS3 and CS4 that they thought were cool and wanted to share.

For example: in Photoshop, when using the Eyedropper tool, you can click and drag it off of your document to sample color from anywhere on your screen. Did you know about that? Probably, but it sure as hell slipped by me (and I have used it dozens of times since I found out about it).

Another example: you can use the Option key (⌥) in combination with your arrow keys to quickly adjust kerning, tracking and leading. Try it!

The idea is that Adobe’s Creative Suite applications are so densely packed with features that it is easy for some of them to slip by unnoticed. View the tips blog or sign up for the newsletter here.

Recently, the Quicktips have tapered off as they have devoted more and more energy into pushing their free online seminars (henceforth to be known as “webinars”). I sat through one and enjoyed it, so I figured I would give them a plug on my site. I viewed the Illustrator CS4 course. I’m still using CS3, but most of what they covered applied. I am pretty experienced with Illustrator, so most of it was review, but every week something came up that was useful to me. Either something new, or some way to do a common task that was more efficient than the way I had been doing it. So all in all, the 10-week webinar was worth my time. You can learn more about the webinars that they offer here. If you are interested in brushing up or learning a new application entirely, this is a good (free) way to go about it.

Version 3.0 of my site is now live! Have a look around! I made some significant changes to the interface and rewrote almost all of the underlying code using XHTML and PHP. Hopefully this will all serve to make the site more useful and informative. Some of the additions/changes:

• Featured Content section on the home page.
• Built using WordPress as a back-end.
• Beefed up my Links page. Head there for some cool artists and useful resources. Seriously beefed.
• Expanded my previous News section into a fully featured blog (you’re lookin’ at it).
• Plus other goodies that come with building a site using WordPress such as the ability to search, leave comments on blog posts, subscribe to my RSS feed and more!

If you have any thoughts and/or (constructive) feedback on the new site, feel free to leave a comment!

I just uploaded some screen caps from my latest web development project. Katie Joplin and I created this site for Sandi Corporation Custom Homes. Katie designed the site and I wrote the code. View screen caps here, or visit sandicorp.com.

I have begun work on a new project for the re-election of a city council member in Ohio. It is on schedule for a mid-summer launch. More details to follow. Take care!

I have just completed and uploaded a new web site. I designed and developed it as an outlet to show the work of photographer Mark Tenekjian. Check it out at marktenekjian.com or view some screen caps on my web design page.

I also have another site in the works that is nearing completion. I did not design this one, but I wrote the underlying code. I am working in concert with fellow designer, Katie Joplin, who created the Photoshop comps on which the site is based. I will post more info when the site is wrapped up.

I just uploaded some significant changes to the interface of my Design section. Hopefully that section is a little more informative and useful now. Check it out!

Thanks to all who came out to the opening at Jojo South!

Jojo South’s grand opening and art show will take place on December 6th from 7–10pm! See above for details.

I’ve just completed a pretty thorough revision of my web site and uploaded some new work. I’ll be putting up more paintings as soon as I get a chance to photograph them. In the meantime please take a look around my fresh new site!