Work background
Nitty-gritty on my professional background can be found via my LinkedIn profile or by downloading my résumé. Please contact me if I can help with your next editorial, design, or content-management project.
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Résumé
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I coded this site from scratch with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; it is hosted on GitHub. The mobile experience was primary when I did the wireframing of the index page elements and grid in Adobe InDesign.
This site makes heavy use of CSS grid and flexbox. The grid and positioning of elements changes with three media queries. I used JavaScript to create listeners for various elements on the index page so that they would respond as groups to mouseovers, mouseouts, and clicks. JavaScript also powers the sticky scroll on page-specific menus as well as the made-from-scratch hamburger menu for viewports less than 950px.
The body copy is set in Lato with a 1.5em line height. Headers are in Fira Sans or Fira Sans Condensed. Social media icons are from Font Awesome.
The images at the top of each page are of my own non-digital creation—bits and pieces from various projects, including colored pencils, pen & ink, duct tape, and, yes, even the chocolates (heavy cream, chocolate, etc.). Real life isn’t powered by ones and zeros.
Leftelbow?
People occasionally ask why my personal media empire is named leftelbow.com. Here’s the story.
Late one night many years ago, my tired eyes straining to focus, I was having zero luck reserving a domain name for my freelance business. I wanted an address that was easy to spell and remember, which ruled out all derivations of my name. Everything on my brainstorming list and all reasonable substitutes I could dream up seemed to be taken. Unfortunately, time was running out. Our newborn son had a strict policy of sleeping no more than two hours at a time, and we were nearing the 1.5-hour mark. I found myself typing wild names into the registry while increasingly exhausted and frustrated, a state that renders me dangerously amused by my own dubious wit.
At one point I entered leftelbow.com, and, stunningly, it was available! A tiny voice told me it was a little weird, but it was so much better than some of the other ideas blundering from my head like revelers leaving a bar at closing time. I paid for the domain and have had it ever since.
I have never had to spell it for anyone, though I have had to point to my elbow a few times.