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Denise deGoumois
New York, NY
e-mail:  aunt_nini@hotmail.com
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Web Sites

Wish List

Web/multimedia digital design, animation, illustration, computer graphics; also electronic/print publishing production, page layout, typography. (Part-time or project, freelance basis.)

Expert Skills

QuarkXPress; Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, AfterEffects; Macromedia Flash, Director, Fireworks, Dreamweaver; Corel Painter.

Web Fluent

CSS, HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML, JavaScript, Lingo, ActionScript GUI-programming.

Other Electronic Gismos

MS Graph, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Access, WordPerfect.

Related Know-How

  • Highly-proficient, cross-platform "software guru" on both PC/Windows and Mac.
  • Computerized typography, page layout, text-flow, digital imagery technology.
  • Web-site design/implementation, animation (GIFs, Flash, Director, Aftereffects, JavaScript, GUI).
  • Writer, copy editor, chart maker, style-sheet-oriented word-processor/typographer.
  • Illustrator, layout artist, print/production coordinator, calligrapher.

Schooling

  • SUNY FIT — Advanced Web Design & Computer Graphics (1998-present)
  • CUNY Baruch College — Production ('70s) & Desktop Publishing (certificate 1995)
  • Art Students League — Post-graduate independent studies (drawing, painting, calligraphy, etc.)
  • Univ. of Connecticut — Public Relations/Advertising & Home Ec.* (B.S. Degree)
  • Univ. of Wisconsin — Journalism/Advertising & Home Ec. (*Clothing, Textiles & Related Art)

Present Reality

  • Part-time, A+ student:—  desktop-publishing, computer-graphics, web-site design.
  • Self-employed "creative type" (1975-present):—  Editor/writer, copy-editing with/rewrite (editorial service and desktop publishing), plus word-processing (law-firm) assignments. Graphic design, illustration, traditional and digital artwork. Web site development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, Lingo, ActionScript GUI-programming), design, animation, illustration. Tutoring: QuarkXPress, Photoshop, ImageReady, AfterEffects, Flash, Director, Dreamweaver, WordPerfect, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Non-profit volunteer.

Past Life

  • Publication editor, writer of monthly consumer magazine and report-specials (Harvest Years, Parade Publishing); two quarterly insurance-industry periodicals (LOMA).
  • Production manager, project illustrator, technical writer of reports, specifications, instructions, manuals (National Transplant Information Center; NY World's Fair Housing Bureau; Klopman Mills).
  • Designer, writer, illustrator, producer of sales aids, mailers, advertising copy, publicity pieces, promotional shows (Printers' Ink Advertising Magazines; Donahue Sales Sewing Notions).

Précis

Daily use latest software: QuarkXPress; Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, AfterEffects; Macromedia Flash, Director, Fireworks, Dreamweaver; Corel Painter.

Initially, sought print path to publishing/graphics. Now caught up in Web design, illustration, animation, HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, electronic, multimedia, GUI-programming spectacle.

Currently "Web master, designer" of 5 Web sites using HTML, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript, animated GIFS, Flash ActionScript, Director Lingo, Aftereffects, ImageReady, Photoshop, multimedia, GUI-programming, etc. Coupled with traditional editorial and illustrative talents/experience, offer strong digital imagery, typography, layout and production skills.

Also expert skills with numerous specialized and general office programs (MS Graph, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect) and heavy law-firm word-processing experience.
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CSS Notes:— It's all too true, “Use it, or lose it.” Had to review notes from Steve Callihan's Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example, Chap.11 Lists to format the bullets (which still do not work as hoped). Might be worth noting here.

You know, UL (“unordered” bulleted lists) and OL (“ordered” numbered lists) both use LI (list item). DL (definition lists), which is like a glossary, uses DT (definition term) and DD (definition description).

Can specify nested-list bullet (or number) types as “contextual” styles:

The list-style-postion property values are “outside” (like a hanging indent with block text) or “inside” (like an indented first line and text wrap to left margin); list-style-image property takes value of URL/path of image file or “none” (which would turn off any previously specified image as bullet).

Can control relative position of list on page by specifying margins for UL and LI elements. Specify padding-left to add horizontal spacing between list's bullets and following text. Because browsers set horizontal margins for UL elements inconsistently, should specify horizontal margin spacing for LI elements, but not for UL or OL list element itself.

ul { list-style-type: circle; list-style-position: outside; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 30px; }
li { margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 10px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; }

Roll-over effects for headings and sub-headings were achieved in similar but different ways.

For <h2>, variations of element's basic style were created in Style Sheet for classes named h2.over2 { color: #FF99FF; } and h2.out2 { color: white;  }. Then in <BODY> specified, <h2 onMouseOver = "this.className='over2';" onMouseOut = "this.className='out2';"> __ </h2>.

For style class named .emphasize, no variations of style were created in Style Sheet and, in <BODY> only, specified <span class="emphasize" onMouseOver ="this.style.color = '#FF99CC';" onMouseOut = "this.style.color = 'white';"> __ </span>.

While the second method may seem to be less work, creating specific values for style properties (in this case pink color) in Style Sheet can be more easily changed globally.

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