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GraphicDesign.com Examines Building an Online Portfolio

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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) July 18, 2012

A brand new feature article on GraphicDesign.com emphasized, “Needing a professional, well-designed online portfolio is a must for graphic designers.” The piece, written by Marywood University Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Christine Medley, examines ways graphic designers can build and host online portfolios.

There are many content management systems (CMS) graphic designers can utilize for a simple or complex online portfolio. From WordPress to Tumblr to Behance to Squarespace, sites specializing in CMS exist in abundance and each has pros and cons. As long as a graphic designer has a little bit of technical know-how, Medley asserts, “WordPress is by far the most common platform to host various types of websites, including portfolio sites, with or without a blog.”

Medley includes screen shots of WordPress, Tumblr, and Behance to allow prospective portfolio builders to see the ins and outs of each.

She also outlined the benefits of Behance, saying it’s perfect for graphic designers: “The Behance Network site is very popular with the creative community, as it’s a network specifically for artists showcasing creative projects as part of a larger portfolio. It’s free, easy to build, and a good place to start getting your art seen, as you can follow and network with others and post seamlessly with Facebook and Twitter.”

Medley emphasized the importance of having a basic understanding of CSS and HTML, noting, “Graphic designers, especially ones just entering the job market, need to be able to understand basic HTML and CSS and build sites themselves through programs such as Adobe Dreamweaver or Muse.” Both pieces of software allow users to create websites from scratch, as opposed to using a CMS option.

What should graphic designers pay attention to when creating an online portfolio? According to Medley’s piece on GraphicDesign.com, content, functionality, and a simple design are three major factors to take into consideration. Overall, her editorial argues, “You can make the best looking site, but if your work isn’t good, then there’s no point in posting it. Pick the best, keep it fresh, and update often.” Content is king.

Three poll questions follow Medley’s article and allow readers of GraphicDesign.com to share their experiences with the community. The editors of GraphicDesign.com constantly seek to engage the site’s readership, so this week, readers are asked:

Which site do you use for your online portfolio?

Do you think a graphic designer should design and build a portfolio site from scratch using a program like Dreamweaver?

Do you have more than one online portfolio?

The poll will remain open until July 29. Visit GraphicDesign.com and weigh in today. The poll article can be found HERE.

ABOUT GRAPHICDESIGN.COM

GraphicDesign.com is a product of Terran Marketing and a leading source of news and information devoted entirely to the graphic design industry. Employers, students, and freelancers come to GraphicDesign.com to read and discuss current news, information, and events in the graphic design industry.

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Shaft Medicals La Jolla Hair Restoration Center Now Offers NeoGraft Automated FUE Hair Restoration To Permanently Eliminate Balding in Men and Women

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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

Shaft Medical San Diego Hair Restoration Center, the West Coasts leading aesthetic medicine practice, providing the full range of advanced cosmetic procedures and located in La Jolla California, now offers NeoGraft Automated FUE Hair Transplantation La Jolla to eliminate baldness in both men and women. The process of hair restoration is now scar free and virtually pain free.

For balding or thinning hair San Diego there is now an effective solution. No painful recovery. No long downtime. NeoGraft Hair Transplantation Center La Jolla offers a revolution in hair restoration.

Now with NeoGraft, bald or thin spots are a thing of the past. Filling in balding areas of the head or patchy areas of the mustache, beard, or eyebrows, is now possible. With the new advanced technology of NeoGraft, bald spots or patchy areas can be permanently concealed by transplanting hair in to the area of concern. No scalpel, no sutures, no additional scars and no “hoping” for results. The hair transplanted to these areas grows forever.

Due to the challenges of the current job market, social relationship competition, and the aging baby boomer population affected by hair loss, hair restoration procedures and treatments are one of the fastest growing segments in the aesthetic industry. In the past, San Diego and La Jolla scar free hair transplantation procedures were time intensive, invasive, and required specialized skills that were developed over time. NeoGraft is a revolutionary, FDA-approved automated hair transplant device. With NeoGraft scar free hair restoration San Diego and La Jolla, hair is harvested one hair at a time from the back of the head without leaving the large linear scars associated with the strip method.

How Does NeoGraft Work?

After planning the appropriate pattern of hair restoration for each patient, a small area of hair in the back of the head is cut short. Then, using the NeoGraft hand piece, about 1 mm in diameter, individual naturally occurring follicular (hair) units, each containing from 1-5 hairs, are extracted from the scalp. By using gentle air pressure to slide out each follicular hair unit, there is no twisting, pulling or cutting, thus avoiding any damage. These hairs are then implanted into the eyebrows, maintaining their viability and increasing the success of the grafting process.

Now, with the NeoGraft method of “follicular unit extraction”, or FUE, hair follicles are gently lifted out of the scalp with a small instrument and light suction, and are then placed into the bald or thinning areas with reverse air pressure. The eyebrow restoration procedure is carefully designed to meet your desired objectives, carefully considering density, hair angle and hair direction.

NeoGraft utilizes a newer transplant system called follicular unit extraction, or FUE, in which hair follicles are removed individually from the back of the head. Under this minimally invasive method there is little danger of scarring, bleeding, or nerve damage.

FUE performed by hand has been too time-consuming and expensive for widespread use. The NeoGraft system offers technological advances that can reduce the time and cost of transplants, making FUE more practical for both men and women of all ages.

About Shaft Medical San Diego

Specializing in the very latest advanced aesthetic medicine procedures Shaft Medical San Diego features NeoGraft Scar Free Hair and Eyebrow Transplantation and MiXto SX Fractional Skin Laser for acne scars, skin rejuvenation, and nonsurgical lift of the face, eyes neck and chest. Our practice also offers PureLight Cellulite Heliotherapy, PowerX and Lipotherme Minimally Invasive Liposculpture Surgery, Alma Accent XL Radio Frequency Skin Tightening Laser, Laviv Skin Cell Cloning Therapy and NeoGraft LTS Acne Cold Laser as well as Botox, Juv

A&I Solutions would like to announce the Employee of the Week, Tim Higgins. Tim is a Senior Architect on the A&I Service Assurance Team.

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(PRWEB) June 27, 2012

Throughout the years, Tim Higgins has worked in various locations across North America assisting customers to install, configure, and operate purchased software. As a senior consultant for A&I Solutions, his responsibilities cover those areas as well as a wide range of activities. For example, Tim works closely with A&I customers by mentoring personnel and providing knowledge transfer. Also, he implements triage, diagnosis, and root cause analysis of application performance problems and architecture of monitoring infrastructure in the client environment.

Tim explains, Since working with A&I Solutions I have learned more about technology than I thought I could ever learn. Every client is different, every task is different and every situation is different; so when there is an issue it is never the same and you have to work to figure it out. The team at A&I are some of the best and brightest teammates I have ever worked with. Everyone is a great team player. Anyone is ready to assist the next with any situation. Although the focus of his consulting was Java/J2EE and .NET application performance management, he is highly proficient in Weblogic/WebSphere/IBoss Application Servers, Database (Microsoft SQL/Oracle), Scripting (JavaScript, Bash, VB/Power Script, WMI), and many other technologies.

As an A&I employee, Tim has worked for several companies throughout the past two years. Those include Disney, Coach, Verizon, Arizona Department of Economic Defense, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), SeaWorld, Fidelity Investments, First Citizens Bank, Nascar, General Electric (GE), Harris, Liberty Mutual, Purdue, N-DEx, and many more. He has accomplished many tasks and has done impeccable work for these companies.

In August, Tim will be celebrating his two year anniversary with A&I Solutions. He has been an added benefit to the company and we appreciate the time and effort he has put into his work on the Service Assurance Team. Tim has created new opportunities for our organization and has been an active part in the success of A&I Solutions.

Success Story:

It was great working with Verizon, because of all the knowledge that I learned in such a short period. I went in planning to do a simple install of the APM architect and a few agents to monitor their application. In no time we ran into issues. The 1st issue was a bug we found in the .NET agent after working on it all night, it was really about 6 am the following day when we got it resolved. Before our findings, I worked with a team of experts for about 3 weeks, pushing long and hard hours trying to resolve a resource issue.

We got it working and I moved on to my next project which we finished early to find out that Verizon needed me back for another issue. This time our agent was pushing their servers over the 95% resource mark. Basically, with our agent the application was still putting them over 95% of memory on their production servers. This time it took 3 days for us to see that it wasnt our agent. Their application was running at 85% 90% without our agent. Our agent would put 1% of overheard per process adding 10% to what they already had. In a normal application adding 10% isnt a big difference but with an application already pushing the limits, that is a lot. The last few days we spent helping the client trim down their application by looking at some simple best practices and simple ideas.

That was a great experience because not only were we able to debug CA but we were able to assist the client with other issues as well.

Recommendation:

I had a great experience working with Tim on the initial rollout of the CA Introscope for my current company. Even with the long hours, demanding requirements, and stressful time crunch, Tim helped make the experience better with his technical counsel and positive attitude.

Brandt A. Meyers, Enterprise Systems Management The Walt Disney Company

About A&Is Service Assurance

A&I Solutions Application Performance Management and Monitoring team is a premier Direct Managed Partner and service provider of CA Service Assurance and Application Performance Management. Our Network Performance Management tools can help you continuously monitor application delivery across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Ultimately, our team of experts assures that end-to-end application response times meet or exceed SLAs and business requirements. A&I Solutions has extensive experience in APM Introscope, CEM, DB Insight, Spectrum, eHealth, Nimsoft and Service Operations Insight.

About A&I Solutions

A&I Solutions is North America’s premier provider of integrated enterprise solutions, dedicated to implementing solutions from CA technologies. A&I Solutions provides enterprise products and services to help companies achieve the highest level of performance. We focus on the best rated products and extensive experience to deliver comprehensive integrated Enterprise Solutions. Working with enterprise management, resource planning, service assurance, security and infrastructure monitoring, A&I helps organizations achieve their full potential by driving consistency and maximizing efficiency. Our proven methodologies, innovative best practices and deep technical experience produce better business results for our Customers. A&I has expertise across all IT environments – physical, distributed, cloud, virtual and heterogeneous platforms. We specialize in the following: CA Security Suite, CA Clarity, CA Wily – Introscope, CEM, SOI, NetQoS, Reporting – Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Actuate Reporting, Enterprise Integrations.

For more information please visit http://www.anisolutions.com.







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TripShock.com Welcomes New Gulf Coast Market Manager Todd Belcher

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Panama City Beach (PRWEB) July 31, 2012

Online travel website TripShock.com welcomed a new member to their marketing team on Monday as the company prepares to expand its product offerings in 2013. Former Bookit.com Call Center Manager Todd Belcher will join the company and assist with acquiring new partnerships with Gulf Coast properties from Panama City Beach to New Orleans. Todd’s experience and relationships in the local travel industry will help TripShock increase its market share in a very competitive destination. The company is also proud to announce that it has planned to double their reservation staff going into 2013.

“2012 has proved to be an excellent year for us,” says Greg Fisher, Vice President of TripShock.com. “We are seeing significant increases in bookings from last year thanks to several new strategic partners. Adding lodging to the website has opened up several new doors for us.”

TripShock.com has also recently announced the launch of their new website in January of 2013.

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Ellie Design Revamps Site and Highlights Photography Services

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Greenwich SQ, Ashburn, VA (PRWEB) July 18, 2012

Up and coming firm, Ellie Design, has recently made changes to the appearance of its website. The domain now boasts of sleeker good looks and easy-to-navigate features, which showcase the web designing expertise of the companys talented pool of employees. The graphical makeover the designers have come up with is a perfect complement to the smoother functionality of the redesigned site.

In addition, the website improvements have been used to shine a spotlight on the photography services offered by the company. Ellie Design offers a variety of service packages to clients who wish to engage the assistance of a professional photographer for different types of pictorials or photo shoots.

Grand Estate Living Returns to Kingswood

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Kingswood, Surrey (PRWEB UK) 30 July 2012

Located in the centre of Kingswood Warren, a private leafy, tree-lined residential enclave, the 19 acre estate, accessed by its own private gated carriageway, is the new flagship site for Britains foremost luxury house builder. Octagon have created a collection of fourteen detached houses, all with individual design detailing, with the original mansion elegantly retained and surrounded by 5 acres of communal gardens.

Local residents have welcomed the arrival of the award winning developer by voting with their feet; following the early sales exchanges, over 500 people visited the Hill House Interiors styled and furnished show house during a special weekend preview.

The spacious 5 bedroom detached family houses which come with either 4 or 5 bathrooms, have been designed to complement local classic residential architecture. All the luxury homes have open views across the communal gardens, which feature some impressive focal points; a stately ancient giant cedar tree and the sympathetically renovated Mansion.

The generously sized and secluded plots range from half to just over one acre, surrounded by mature trees and hedgerows, and the properties come with Octagons famed high specification and interior fixtures.

The old mansion, a Victorian Gothic masterpiece with flamboyant stone detailing, mullions and oak panelled interiors, is currently undergoing a renovation and conversion into 8 spacious apartments.

The mansion, built in 1837., was a former home to various titled squires, including Victorian MP, Thomas Alcock, and most recently, prior to the Octagon purchase, the house and grounds housed BBCs research department, where entry was strictly limited to the Corporations personnel and visiting scientific luminaries.

The communal grounds, which feature a sunken garden, verdant shrubberies and woodland walks, will be restored to their original magnificence by Octagons consultant landscape architects.

Prices for mansion apartments range from

Poston Joins AchieveIt to Accelerate Growth of Execution Management and Strategic Planning Software Company

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ATLANTA, GA (PRWEB) July 30, 2012

AchieveIt, a leading provider of execution management and strategic planning software, announced today the addition of Michael Poston to its executive team as the company continues an aggressive expansion into commercial markets. Poston will be primarily responsible for online and offline marketing and public relations.

Poston holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Structural Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in quantitative methods, both earned at Vanderbilt University. His 16-year career includes extensive experience in strategic planning, marketing, SEO, and product development.

“To have someone of Michaels experience and caliber join our team is humbling,” said Scott Regan, founder and chief execution officer of AchieveIt. “Michael has such a rare combination of talent that he can have an instant impact on our company. If we are the rocket, Michael will be our rocket fuel. He has that kind of potential for us.

Poston has a track record of accelerating sales growth for the companies he has worked with, which include small and large organizations, Fortune 500 companies, manufacturing companies, and technology firms. He has rich experience in business development, client acquisition and retention, digital platforms, and trademarks and patents.

In June, AchieveIt released Version 4.0 of its cloud-based software and reorganized the company to move into vertical markets outside of healthcare, where the company got its start. With Version 4.0, AchieveIt unveiled three new applications: ExecuteIt, AnalyzeIt, and ImproveIt. These applications help accelerate performance in strategic planning, strategy development, execution management, and performance improvement.

About AchieveIt

Serving more than 100 clients in 30 states, AchieveIt helps organizations transform vision and goals into tangible business results by executing smarter, faster, and better. Through its suite of cloud-based strategy development and execution management applications, AchieveIt accelerates transformation through enhanced accountability, transparency, and execution. The company provides an innovative set of online tools to develop, monitor, and implement strategic and operational plans, performance and quality improvement projects, and leadership and management programs. A national thought-leader on strategy development and execution management, AchieveIt offers free strategic planning webinars and white papers on its website at AchieveIt.com.







Western X Uses PipelineFXs Qube! for Talking Puppies Feature

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) July 17, 2012

PipelineFX, makers of Qube!, the leading render farm management software for digital media creation, announced today that Western X has chosen Qube! to manage all graphics rendering on their latest film, Santa Pups.

As a preeminent visual effects firm for talking animal content, Western X has developed a custom-designed pipeline for making animals appear to speak naturally in real and CG environments. While this process has proven visually effective over a series of films, it has also been costly in terms of rendering time. This changed with the installation of Qube!, as Western X was able to mold their render farm into an efficient, semi-automated system.

The greatest challenge we face on these films is the shot count-to-manpower ratio, says James Tichenor, Visual Effects Supervisor and Producer at Western X. We run a boutique studio with a relatively small render farm, so every render minute is precious, especially when twenty artists have to turn over upwards of 1,100 shots during the course of a five month post.

Key Qube! features like the graphical Frame Time histogram, and detail columns that depict Avg and ETA statistics, helped the studio easily determine job length and progress. This Smart Farming intelligence allows Western X to manage the high volumes of visual effects renders their work requires, all without locking artists workstations to long-running tasks. And when they are in crunch time, the team leases additional licenses to expand the reach of their farm onto unused desktops that would otherwise go idle during the night.

Qube! does a brilliant job of managing our farm resource, added Tichenor. Its configurable load managing, prioritization, and CPU management features have made it possible to make informed decisions quickly about what needs to get sent to the farm and when.

But to be successful, Qube! had to work seamlessly with the studios Shotgun/Python-driven pipeline. Through script integration via Python, a feature that has saved the firm numerous hours of manpower, Qube!s out-of-the-box solutions made its inclusion even simpler. Its multi-platform support functionality has made render management for Maya, Nuke and Shake a non-issue for Western X, freeing them up to develop other parts of their pipeline.

These films really would be impossible to turn around in the time we have without a solid render management system like Qube!, said Tichenor. Ever since we set-up our first twenty-node farm, Qube! managed the system so well that weve never considered switching to another system. Not even once.

About Qube! and Smart Farming

Qube! is an intelligent, mature and highly scalable render management solution that can be quickly integrated into any production workflow, and is backed by world-class technical support. Smart Farming delivers intelligence to production pipelines by providing business-critical insight into render pipelines, maximizing investment in rendering infrastructure and automating manual processes. Qube! works out of the box with all leading content creation applications and is truly cross-platform with all software components available on Windows

New Company, Modern Dwell Numbers, Opens for Business, Offering Modern House Numbers for Those With An Appreciation for Contemporary Design

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Mesilla Park, NM (PRWEB) July 29, 2012

Modern Dwell Numbers is a new company that specializes in high-design modern house numbers and letters for modern homes and buildings. Sleek and sophisticated, Modern Dwell Numbers add an alluring nuance to contemporary fa

Oldfields Advance Scaffold Witness Continuing Surge in Demand for Their Project Expertise

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Revesby, New South Wales (PRWEB) July 30, 2012

With over 25 years experience, Oldfields Advance Scaffold are widely renowned for being the leading supplier of aluminium mobile towers and scaffolding to both domestic and commercial customers. Their specialised project arm has reported an ever-growing demand for their expertise, innovative advice and high quality products from companies right across Australia who need to complete a diverse range of residential and commercial projects.

General Manager, Mr Maurice Rivera believes that the reasons why so many companies are seeking out Oldfields Advance Scaffold each and every week for help with their projects are simple.

As Mr Rivera explains, Specialist projects are not something that everybody does in this industry. Customers look to us for specialised systems and often they dont know what they need, particularly if the project is somewhat unique or difficult. This is where our team shines.

Our team of scaffolding experts continue to use their depth of knowledge to produce high-end solutions for our growing number of project customers and as such, if we ever need to enter into a quoting or tender process, our proven track record, years of experience, specialist advice and cost-effective solutions see us come to the fore.

Currently, Oldfields Advance Scaffold have a range of projects underway and have previously been linked to some of Australias biggest brands including leading Australian airline, Qantas.

We were extremely pleased to have been able to lend our scaffold hire expertise to Qantas for the project nicknamed The Big Red Tail, which involved re-painting the tail on the Qantas Founders Museum’s Boeing 747 aircraft exhibit, remarks Mr Rivera.

As you can appreciate, the tail on a Boeing 747 is huge as it measures up to half the size of a football field. Being such a difficult shape and height, the project presented plenty of challenges to those co-ordinating it, but was made easier by the solution we provided which included more than 20 vertical metres (65 feet) of high-quality scaffolding support.

Oldfields Advance Scaffold have also been called upon for providing a swing stage to perform maintenance on the big screen at Queenslands Skilled Stadium, event staging at several high calibre events, beach staging for the Iron Man Competition, stadium seating for the Australian Baseball League Season, and many more unique and challenging projects.

They have also been involved in more delicate areas, such as providing the scaffolding platform for professional painters to revive the Regent Theatre roof. As Mr Rivera points out, this historic theme also continues with one of their current projects.

Were currently undertaking a major project at Ayers House in Adelaide. Our company is extremely excited to be involved in this, as Ayers House is considered to be one of the finest examples of Colonial Regency architecture in Australia and remains the largest and best preserved of the houses designed by George Strickland Kingston.

Our project specialists were brought in to advise on the best scaffolding solution and the result of our teams advice has seen the installation of our Aluminium Modular Systems Scaffold to assist them to complete refurbishments on this historical Adelaide building.

Oldfields Advance Scaffold are committed to leading the leading the way as Australias chief provider of scaffolding solutions and their project team is always excited to be able to bring together the best value scaffold hire equipment with guaranteed reliability and expert advice for their growing number of project customers right across the country.

For more information about previous and current Oldfields Advance Scaffold projects or how to contact them for more information, visit http://www.oldfields.com.au/scaffolding

About Oldfields Advance Scaffold

After operating in the industry for over 25 years, Oldfields Advance Scaffold can boast to be Australias leading manufacturers and wholesalers of Aluminium Mobile Scaffold Towers and other scaffolding products.

Oldfields Advance Scaffold is part of the larger publically listed Oldfields Holdings Group, which was established in 1916.

With locations nationwide, they are committed to providing the best value scaffolding equipment solutions for both hire and sales, including a full range of innovative, high quality, safe, reliable products and services to cover all scaffolding needs.







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