Chris Valleskey

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New design, and some other things

March 5, 2010 – 3 Comments

I liked my old site’s design. It was clean, stayed true to the grid I put it on, and overall felt like a great accomplishment for me to finally put it all together. However, there were some problems with it. Because of this, I’ve decided to update my site with a new design.

The old site was made as a partial experiment. Before creating it, I had never written a Wordpress theme. By coincidence, I had recently created a clean looking design for the site. I decided the best thing to do would be to create for myself a new site, and at the same time learn how to use Wordpress by writing my first theme.

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HU Student Widget

February 2, 2010 – No Comments

Let me start this post off by saying it only is for Huntington University students. Sorry, everyone else. About a year ago I made a widget for checking your chapel credits and meal plan info. Well, I’m sure lots of…

Design Process: Department of Visual Arts Website

December 27, 2009 – 9 Comments

For my Web Design class at school we were asked to come up with a site for our final project. Our first step was to decide what our subject would be for our website. The first idea that I thought of…

Ordered Some Shirts

December 9, 2009 – 2 Comments

So…the awesome and cool Matt Sauter surprised me today with an early Christmas gift, and I can now say I am going to be the proud owner of my first five Threadless tshirts! Since I was excited and all, and…

My Desktop Backgrounds

November 11, 2009 – 2 Comments

As promised in one of my earlier posts (and after some reminders), here’s a package of several wallpapers I’ve made for my desktop. Feel free to use them or share them, just don’t say you made them! Just click the…

My GeekTool

November 5, 2009 – 4 Comments

I promised I would write about this earlier. I use my GeekTool to see the time from across the room, check the calendar, see what the weather’s like outside when I wake up, monitor my bandwidth, check the latest twitter…

Fall Break

October 19, 2009 – 1 Comment

Well, today is Monday, and I am here at school during Fall Break. I have to say, it is incredibly boring! I never knew how good it is to have regular human contact. I consider myself an introvert, but this…

So, School Starts Next Week

August 24, 2009 – No Comments

And I can say I’m pretty excited to get started! Not only am I going to be living in a nicer dorm, I’ll be cooking most of my meals, which should be fun. Can’t wait to network the dorms up…

Portfolio updates

July 28, 2009 – 1 Comment

Finally got around to adding some images for some past work I’ve done. Feel free to check them out on my Portfolio page by clicking the link on the right or if you’re lazy just clicking this: http://chrisvalleskey.com/portfolio/

Blog design changes soon

July 22, 2009 – No Comments

Hey, what’s up? I’m going to be making some changes soon to this design. I like it, but it seems a bit boring. I’m all for clean layouts and designs, but only when they are not boring, and this one is.…

Pirate Networks and College

July 13, 2009 – 1 Comment

Last year my friends and I created a sort of ‘pirate’ network on campus. It wasn’t a ‘pirate’ network in the sense that we used it for file-sharing and that other stuff, but that it was illegal for students to…

Blogging on the highway

June 28, 2009 – No Comments

This week our family is going on vacation to the smokey mountains! I am typing this out on my phone on the highway (no, i am not driving!) and passing through kentucky. I will be constantly updating my twitter as…

My Photoshop Setup

June 18, 2009 – No Comments

As a designer, I find it important to have the tools I use frequently to be easily available. When creating a website, I mainly use Photoshop as my tool for creating the design. In this post I’ll show you how…

Decided to make breakfast this morning

June 9, 2009 – No Comments

Recently my sleep schedule has been pretty messed up, and because of this my eating habits have gotten even weirder. Last night I went to sleep at about 10PM, but woke up again at around 2-3AM and couldn’t go back…

Photoshop CS4 likes to crash on me

June 1, 2009 – No Comments

It seems like Photoshop crashes on me at least once a day. It almost always happens when I am switching from one program into Photoshop, and I think it has something to do with the user interface not rendering correctly.…

New Site Up and Running (Well, Almost)

May 28, 2009 – 1 Comment

Well, this new design is almost done. It took me a while to get accustomed to all the ways of Wordpress, but I’m happy to say I think I have mastered it for the time being. I think next time…

2408WFP Is The New Hotness

May 23, 2009 – No Comments

Whelp, my roommate and I made a deal today. I sold him my 2407wfp-hc in exchange for some cash and something else (Which I won’t say, because it is my family’s birthday gift!) Here’s what they look like on our…

End Of Year

May 23, 2009 – 1 Comment

In two short weeks I will be finishing off my finals and ending my sophomore year at Huntington University. It’s been a fun year. I and others have had lots of fun making mischief, like setting up an entire illegal…

Experiments in Sleep Deprivation, Part 1

May 22, 2009 – No Comments

Hello! If you’re close to me, you probably won’t be happen to hear this, but I have given myself the goal this weekend to see how long I can go without sleeping. As I write this right now, I have been…

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