As part of my internship with SDB Inc, I got to build my first web site in ASP. The site is for SDB’s annual charity golf tournament befitting the Disabled American Veterans of Arizona.

Since I didn’t know anything about ASP, this was a learning experience. The site is pretty simple, but it was not without challenges. It features a registration form using an ASP FormMail script, and column heights that are equalized with a bit of JavaScript. Some pages (after registration) even display different headers depending on which donation package the user selected. Not mind blowing, but a big leap in my web design knowledge.

I have been a terrible blogger. My last post was 5 months ago, and I have been so derelict that I didn’t even bother to a write up about the new theme. So I apologize to the 3 or so people who might actually visit this site from time to time. Now, let’s raise our glasses to getting back on track.

Last semester I didn’t post any of my school projects, so let me start by doing so now. In “Graphic Design 1″ I had an assignment to create a concert poster. The requirements of the assignment were to create the poster according to design specs for a local venue, and promote a band that could theoretically play at said venue. I just had to go with one of my favorite bands ever, Flight of the Conchords.

This posed some interesting challenges. On day one I emailed all of the larger venues in the Phoenix area asking if they had any specs for their posters. Not a single one of them responded. A fellow student had managed to reach someone at Cricket Wireless Pavilion only to find out that they have no real set rules. I wanted to use Dodge Theatre, since Flight of the Conchords has actually played there in the past. Since Dodge Theatre and Cricket Wireless are both managed by Live Nation I assumed that they would have the same requirements.

I was able to find a vector of the Dodge logo online. I only had to add the word “theatre” to recreate the Dodge Theatre logo. I found a typeface called Dodger which is a close approximation of the Dodge font. I had originally thought of doing something rather art nouveau, but found it very difficult to achieve that style effectively. (I aim to keep at it, but it could take years of practice.) Instead I went with something more Art Deco looking to go with the robot theme. For the display text I chose a font called fat free, which comes in an outline version and a solid version. I layered the two, outline over solid to make it look sort of hand drawn, like many Conchords posters. Fat free Solid also reads fairly easy, so I used that for the other text on the page.