On May 3rd, 2008, RIT is hosting an festival called Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. They plan to attract 30,000 people.
The festival will be a showcase over 150 different exhibits of student and faculty work and innovations at RIT. From space exploration to eye tracking devices to innovative websites. See the full list of exhibit titles.
An exhibit for my website, BookMaid.com has been approved so I will be at the event.
It was just announced today that the Rochester Institute of Technology is opening a campus in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, opening in the fall.
It’s going to be called “RIT Dubai” and it’s part of the a huge complex in Dubai, called the “Dubai Silicon Oasis”. Apparently they’re not offering full-time enrollment at RIT Dubai until 2009. They’ll be offering electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, finance and service management.
After 3 month of designing, programming, researching, advertising and dealing with legal issues, I finally finished my newest project, RITBook. It’s a textbook trading site exclusively for Rochester Institute of Technology students. From the day it was released, it’s been a great success, and I’m really excited about how it’s doing. There is now over hundreds of books on the website, and I’m getting lots of positive feedback about the website. Alot of people are really interested in the site, and they’re helping me promote it. Hopefully it’s going to take off!
I’ve decided to compile a few tips to starting a website. Hopefully it’ll either help people out or just be interesting to read.
Well, I’ve been really researching and playing with search engine optimization (SEO) and dan-lev.com’s statistics. The website is doing much better (visitor-wise) than it was doing before the site went down in September.
Unfortunately I haven’t had much time for photography since I’ve been busy with school.
I have a new website that I’m really excited about. I bought the domain name, designed it, and programmed the majority of it. Before I finish, I just realized a legal/policy-type problem that I may have with running site. So I’m going to clear up everything in that department and then I should have it released. Unfortunately, this site is going to be only for a particular audience. Before I get too close to giving it away, I’m going to stop.
Okay, so, I’m stoked. I chose to attend Rochester Institute of Technology, and major in Information Technology & New Media. And now I’m really excited because I’ve met a whole bunch of people who are also attending, and they all rock. An online friend that I’ve known for about two years from Massachusetts also got accepted, and we’ve decided to be roomates. So that’s pretty exciting as well, I’ll get to be roomates with someone I already know well.
And I was also playing around with PHP Graphics Draw, because I’ve always wanted to learn it, and I created a little countdown timer out of boredom.
I’m also working on an exciting new feature for my website, and it should increase the interactivity on the site by alot.
Okay so I’m in a pickle. I got accepted to all 3 of the colleges I applied to:
Champlain is out of the question. I’m going to major in web design. RIT is a more well known school.
The way I look at it is this: NEIA is an art school, RIT is a technology school. Web & Multimedia Design involves both.
Don’t get me wrong, but you can’t learn art. You’re either born with it, or you’re not. I think a technology school would be better than a art school for web design. I know a moderate amount of web design now, and I don’t think NEIA would have enough that I could learn. I want a school that’s more open ended, so If I want I can move from web programming to basic computer programming. That’s what I think RIT has over NEIA.
I wanted to go to Boston [NEIA], because it’d be a great experience. But then again, I come from a city with a population of just over 10,000. It’d be a big jump and I don’t know if I’d be able to stand a city like Boston to live in.
My 4 Years at RIT would cost about half as much as NEIA. A better school for less. Hmm? But now, the disadvantages. RIT is 8 hours away. Compared to 4 hours away at NEIA. Ehhh….It’s funny - the more I talk about this the more RIT sounds better.
I’ve realized that my blog has been getting spammed lately by bots. For this reason I created a Anti-Spam System to block BBCode from my comments. So, don’t use BBCode! Only bot’s use BBCode!
I’m getting some other really weird comments still though, I’m not sure what’s up with it - if it’s a bot or someone’s trying to mess with me. I’ll wait it off and see if they keep coming.
As you can see I reformatted the front page, less tables, more CSS. I’m trying to use more XHTML/CSS - always a good thing as a web designer.
I’m always looking for models to photograph. If you’re interested let me know.
I’m now working at a local printing company as a graphic designer. It’s really awesome. How many high school students get a job in the field they’re going to be working in? My freelance work is slowing down a bit, but I’m still working on it, and I’m gonna be trying to post more blog entries, gotta get around to a bunch of back-end programming of dan-lev.com.
Well the school year has started. I have a very artistic schedule:
I have a total of 17 classmates. Drawing is the only class I have homework in. So I might be uploading alot of drawings in the few weeks. My homework assignment tonight was to draw a self portrait in a refelctive object. So I decided to draw myself in a goblet-type thing. You can check it out here, or in my Drawings Gallery.
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