FLASH: what DRIVES web organizations?!?- plus site check please {>flasher<}

[Shortmiller]

better grab a cold one. i haven't written my required fifteen pages of email 

tonight, so i'm going to see how long i can write about this topic w/o 

sticking MFIMM; suffer my wrath! 

feel free to stop reading when-ever. but check www.indywebpress.com for 

functionality and design and load time and code quality. please :)

my brother and i founded a company two weeks ago. neither of us are degree'd 

professionals as of yet, but we're both smarter than shit. that's the beauty 

of this occupation. maybe i am only 24Y'sO and he 20, and maybe neither has 

what you'd call a peaches and cream complexion, but that's not stopping us. 

we are not going to wait for our business degrees and clean shaven faces to 

make us rich, because they probably never will. and dammit we hate college 

math! i would rather read a book on how quantum physics relates to nature and 

business (Life on the Edge of Chaos; check it out!) than take a physics test 

that requires me arguing w/ the professor on a minor detail or loophole in 

physic's he doesn't comprehend it to gain 2.5 extra points on my final exam 

and bump me from a final grade of C+ to a B-. school sucks..we don't need no 

education, remember? egyptians knew as much, possibly MORE considering we 

haven't translated MANY of their scrolls, about physics as we do today. will 

they teach me that in college? will they teach me that the vatican has many 

of these scrolls locked up to be viewed only by a very select group of eyes? 

do we KNOW they didn't cure aids already, six thousand years ago, with a 

plant native to the nile? (obligatory OTC: stigmata is a GREAT movie but 

barely scratches the surface of unrealixed human potential) i digress.

i can build a better website than Indiana University (as far as general 

interface) in a matter of weeks. they've had god knows how many ppl working 

diligently for years, but have lacked that me (designer) quality in their 

formulas. those ppl dream in html i bet:


<dream/ sweating, tossing, turning, feelings of falling behind at work/>

that'd've much funnier if i knew what html really looks like.

is my foot in my mouth yet?


flash is great, and we are gonna utilize the shit out of it. i have not seen 

more than one, if that many, Web sites come out of indianapolis, indiana in 

the last year that are on par w/ our homesite. i don't get around as much as 

i'd like, on the internet, at 28.8 though. we are going to be uber successful 

and i propose to do it like this. 


mother (T K F    ) : mediator and all around down-to-earth peak of our pyramid

myself (jeff miller) : designer; and networker in the conventional BUSINESS 

sense of the word.

brother (andy m.) : coder/designer (he completly coded and designed the 

website i am about to link you to in three days, swear to buddah. i have not 

exercised my artistic license as of yet, but it may not be required on this 

site. it looks pretty damn good to me so far and i would LOVE to get as many 

opinions as possible.

go to:

www.indywebpress.com

and tell me what we might change. he thinks it's too cartoonish. i can't 

offer many suggestions to him yet because i have not perused the proper 

tutorials and am not even sure which adobe program to edit .jpg's or whatever 

files you need for real life animation. all in good time i suppose. the other 

guys have catching up to do anyway.

keep in mind: the site doesn't open till may. none of our pricing or policys 

have been edited by myself, and my bra doesn't exude profound wordcrafting 

skils; but don't tell him i let on.

as someone else pointed out more eloquently, the technology is a never ending 

wave. riding the wave into infinity- or until you die and then eventually 

your company is splintered- just requires staying a bit ahead of the 

technology curve. that sweet spot of the wave, where you master the programs 

(ie adobe and mm) that influence the way internet business is conducted AS 

SOON AS THEY ARE RELEASED. we have flash figured out moreso than most 

designers (sans ppl reading this list and others like it). we're waiting for 

the next big thing, i read something about e-v fonts. i have no idea what 

those are, but if i start studying tonight i'll be well versed and doing 

QUALITY material (not experimenting) when the tsunami hits <in our current 

state, the tsunami is every business wanting a quality flash website, but not 

having enuff quality coder's in the market to provide them. even most html 

coders, i'm assuming, can not implement a pure flash site that is functional. 

it's funny that even the ppl who are shaping the virtual world as citizens 

currently know it (html and anim gif popups) are so far out to sea that they 

don't even realize they left the shore.

an ex girlfriend was programmed by ball state university to be a 

telecommunications worker (if i understood her correctly, she actually PAID 

for this brainwashing and owes quite a bit of money on some kind of 

loan....something w/ an s....stupid maybe...OH! student, don't they make 

enuff on football?). now she works at the indpls. star (major metro 

newspaper; circ. about 600K on sunday) on a 'new media' team of fifteen ppl. 

(the star calles it "knight rider new media" HA!)   granted, she doesn't code 

the five or so sites they operate and the countless number of sites the team 

creates for outside clients, i don't even think she is "qualified" to design. 

i think she organises email addys or some other shit job. but she works 

closely w/ the ppl who do and sees everything that goes out the phone lines 

and into space.  when i mentioned flash to her she was like "yeah, i heard of 

it" but didn't know shit in reality. when she saw my site she was like, wow 

that's pretty. end of conversation. you just can't help some ppl. the school 

got to her impressionable young mind before i was smart enuff to do it more 

effectively and the right way. to give her team credit, it's not their fault. 

their directives probably come from above, where someone complacently enjoys 

a cushy job he got using html and a better than average suit. this person is 

convinced java future of the net. he's keeping the team too busy giving away 

free email addys and linking EVERY SINGLE FRIKIN' CORP. BUSINESS IN 

INDIANAPOLIS, like everyone else, to actually activate more than three 

creative oriented neuron clusters in the knight riders.

i love those cushy job ppl cause they're gonna make us idea ppl independently 

wealthy.

the preceeding was not edited or spellchecked. flame away,

jeffer




 


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