Ralph Sharp

Web Designer / Graphic Artist



QUALIFICATIONS

HTML Skills

Coding trade-offs, newest coding proposals, code-validation, predicting problems

MIME types and streaming-media issues

Cascading Stylesheets

DHTML hand coding, (but mainly use a front-end program)

XML and the standards involved in its use

Programming Skills

JavaScript

CGI / Perl

Basic UNIX commands, symbolic links, etc.

Hand-code advanced HTML and use code-validators.

Hand-code advanced HTML links to Includes

Create simple connections between a Web site and a database using off-the-shelf tools like TANGO or LASSO

Design Skills

Build/design a Web site from scratch that is a unified work of art

Can combine content, navigational structure, and appearance into a powerful integrated experience

Strong sense of color, layout, and drama

Integrate object and bit map elements seamlessly

Create specific moods through lighting, shadows, and color

Create numerous objects in several styles without looking at a reference

Understands lighting for three-dimensional objects

Maintain consistent lighting throughout a scene

Artistic Skills

Create animated GIFs

Create complex graphic buttons, button bars, banners, and logo-like or iconic elements

Some digital photo montage experience

Basic drawing skills

Print background and strong art-direction skills

Create attractive new images, in either mannered, iconic, or flat clip-art styles

Create artwork digitally, from scratch, that is indistinguishable from traditional illustrations

Alter photographs as desired so that only a forensic specialist could tell they have been altered

Understands color-palette and graphic compression issues

Technical Skills

Knowledge of hardware includes: routers, hubs, switches and switching, telephone company and internet service provider issues, and LAN troubleshooting experience

Software Experience

Adobe: GoLive 6, Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10, InDesign 2, PageMaker 6.5, Acrobat 5, PageMill 3.1, LiveMotion 2

Quark Express 5

Kai's Power Tools (Photoshop Plug-ins)

Eye Candy (Photoshop Plug-in)

Aldus Type Twister

GraphicConverter 4

DropImage 2.5

Amfy (Java Applet Generator)

Fetch (FTP Utility, Macintosh)

Cute (FTP Utility, Windows)

NiftyTelnet (Telnet Utility)

MacPerl (Scripting Utility)

IPNetMonitor 2.4.5 (Network Administration Utility)

Microsoft: Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Operating Systems Experience

Microsoft: Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT

Apple: Macintosh OS Classic:7.1 through 9.2
OS X: 10.0 through 10.2.6 (Jaguar),
Macintosh Server OS
Darwin

UNIX / Linux: Remote Web Hosting Servers

BSD: FreeBSD 3.4

ALPHA: Open VMS



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