My Life in Silicon Valley

	I am a recent graduate of Silicon Valley College in Walnut Creek where I studied Online Design.
	The college was originally started in Fremont in 1989. All the historical details about the school can be found on their websites. This one is just about the work I've done there and the people I learned from.
	In my web design class, I created a site about the qabalah and it's called The Tree of Life. It is my first project using frames and an image map.
	In my Multimedia Class, I made a shockwave video, using Macromedia Director, which I named the Adventures of Andy Ant
	Using Adobe Premiere, I also made a quicktime video clip which I took from the Nine Inch Nails video, "help me, i'm in hell." Director and Premiere are size-intensive so it was necessary to condense the files before putting them on the web.
	A longer, more slow-loading quicktime video of a friend of mine, known as St. Liselia was taken from a videotape made at our first get together.
	A much shorter clip from that first meeting features Angela. Don't forget to get your plug-ins for these movies.
	In my dynamic HTML class, I created this website of the future. The only graphic is the Hurricane. All the text is, well, text, using cascading style sheets to make it super text. Can only be viewed in Internet Explorer 4. Hurricane LeFran's Dynamic Magick Theater.
	Shawn, a classmate who is studying web design too, designed the Highland Renaisance Re-enactors Guild--Somewhat official home page as his school project but he is maintaining and adding to it on his own.
	The first class I attended, which was on graphics, was given by Ted Jalbert, an excellent teacher. He taught us Illustrator and Photoshop.
	My second teacher, for introduction to web design, was Alberto Paez, who is the director of the Online Designer program. He designed the website for the Walnut Creek branch of Silicon Valley College. I made the Tree of Life and the Piece of My Mind in his class. I also owe my frames to his teaching. Linda Schneider, who is teaching multimedia, specifically, the making of videos, doesn't have a website (yet), which is unfortunate, as I'm sure it would reflect well on her. She is very nice and popular. Under her guidance, I made the four videos mentioned above. Andrew Pearce taught me DHTML and Javascript. His teaching is responsible for my rollover navigation buttons and pull-down jukebox on my music page. Last but not least, Glenn Manley led our class through the challenging process of putting together a computer, loading DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT and Unix, creating a network and a webserver using Windows NT, and finally, uploading a website to that server. I loaded my Tree of Life, which I created in my HTML class, on the server which we created as our class project.