Steve Hansen's Design Portfolio


Welcome to iamSteveHansen.com, home to the personal website and design portfolio of Burlington based graphic designer Steve Hansen. If you are new to this site please take some time to have a look around. If you have been here before then welcome back!

Updates


January 29 2009

Adjusted some things on the site for W3C Accessibility compliance and SEO.


December 3 2008

Website added to my portfolio.


November 16 2008

Added 2 more projects to my portfolio.


September 21 2008

Updatied browser compatablity to work with IE 6.


September 14 2008

Added three new projects to my portfolio.


July 18 2008

Added a painting from a few years age to the Fine Art section and some furniture illustration to my portfolio. I'll probably blog today too.


June 06 2008

Uploaded the new site design today. Converting over to CSS layout. Still a few bugs I need to work out.and some design changes. Over all I like this design much better than the last. Stay tuned!


March 28 2008

Completed a web site for local landscape specialists >BonRoy Services Inc.<


Jan 20 2008

Updates to my Commercial portfolio include: Brouchure/Handout, Product Design, and Web Banner Aslo added a couple of commisioned paintings to fine art.


Dec 29 2007

Added more fine art pictures. Changed the thumbnail images a little bit. Added the welcome. Had a great Christmas. Asked Keira to marry me and she said YES!


Dec 1st 2007

Fixing some minor bugs and uploading some new work to my portfolio. Getting close to Chistmas... things are getting busy!

Blog


December 3 2008

I heart style sheets

During the emerging years of the Internet in the 90’s I, like many others, dabbled in HTML. Using free website hosting services like geocities and angelfire to name a couple. Since then a lot has changed. The table is no longer king! Now it’s all about CSS. Yes, cascading style sheet, how I’ve learned to love them. There always seems to be new and simpler ways to do things that in the past where time consuming, bulky and involved writing more HTML. CSS is helping to turn the web into a decadent and buttery smooth feast for the user.

CSS can be tough though. Getting it to work cross browser can quickly become a royal “pita”. Trying to stay on top of what is and is becoming standards compliant doesn’t uncomplicated anything either. All in all though, I love it. I can’t think of too many things more invigorating than figuring out a new technique or creating something fresh and modern from the same content or even sitting back after all your hard work and headaches and thinking, wow this is cool.

So here’s a few great CSS sites I visit on the regular:

-> W3Schools - CSS Guide

-> CSS Globe - CSS News

-> Dynamic Drive - CSS Techniques


July 18 2008

Pod people

If you’ve heard of pod casts you’ve probably heard Keith and the Girl. I’ve been listening on and off for about four years. They’re, vulgar, politically incorrect, offensive and funny. Regular guests of friends and listeners of the show who will delight, seduce and infuriate you to no end. It’s defiantly worth a listen.

-> www.katg.com


June 22 2008

A couple of neat sites

So, today I was trolling the web for cool stuff and found -> Best Web Gallery.

It's a gallery of sites with new, innovative and cool CSS and Flash based designs. There's some really neat stuff on there, the kind that'll get your creative juices flowing. It did for me anyway.

Another great site I tend to check out on the regular is -> Wooster Collective.

I guess this site would be classified as a gallery as well. It's a neat showcasing of "street art" from around the world. With archives dating back to January 2003 you could kill hours and hours here filling your head with pictures, stories and videos. No matter what you think about "street art" there's probably something there you'll find interesting.