I used to teach Graphic Arts (printing, graphic design, computer graphics ala Adobe Creative Suite and some web via GoLive). It was at a community college that I had attended, getting too many A’s, and got hired as 2nd professor, going with them full-time after a year and a half. Worked a 12-month contract, since I had a summer session as part of the 2-year Associate Degree program we ran. Had to leave to take care of my mom after five years. (She’s ok now, and staying with my sister - gotta call and say happy birthday tonight!). I am a Total Photoshop/InDesign junkaholic! And a color dweeb! (Dan Margulis is still my hero.) LAB? You are talkin’ my favorite color space!

Print knowledge galore, but purely technical, though design-for-print was one of my courses. Had lots of drop-outs who went towards straight design work. Everyone thinks they can be a designer! Well, I sure don’t - definitely the nuts-and-bolts guy.

Not much call for color-dweebiness anymore, since digital cameras are so amazingly automatic today. I do it for friends and neighbors as a hobby, and optimized a bunch of historic pics for a video, and created masks for special effects (I am the maskman deluxe, but again, no call for that much so I do it as a hobby).

The CMS revolution has been on my list of interests since 1999, when I first connected up a mysql database via PHP, then had fun with the tools GoLive 6 gave us (but then took away in CS) for dynamic forms and such. Got into PMachine around 2002, but it didn’t click at that time. Recently had all my ‘aha’ moments in ExpressionEngine, especially since the upgrade for me from 1.4 to 1.6.1. I’ll be intermediate-level with it fairly soon, I think (though some would say I’m there already - but want to get sql queries under my belt, and some more php).

There will be a quiz Monday.