The OVC

Early this week I had a project where I wanted to get some quality paper. Of course I remember from our class visit there was a magical room in a hidden commercial building by the old Texas Stadium.

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That’s right folks, the OVC is adding a

component into the website to allow us to be more of a social network and really do some amazing things. Right now it will just be on this one blog, but in the future look out for ALL users being able to have a blog here at the OVC.

What does that mean for you?

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This wednesday we will be having our first meeting of the year. Going to be more of an intro meeting, letting everyone know whats going on and what our big plans are.

We will be going over the different roles of the OVC, some of the events and ideas we have planned, and some opportunity to help out fellow students and the community at large.

Right after there is a meeting of the Dallas Society of Visual Communicators (http://www.dsvc.org/) and many of the officers will be trying to carpool to that event. They charge $10 for nonmember students, but its a resource worth looking into.

Expect some new changes in The OVC website coming soon, buddypress 1.2 went beta so its about to get exciting!!

Its time for part 3 of our fascinating journey into Wordpress and in this installation we will be going over what Wordpress is, a bit of history on the project, and my own experience with it. Then we will be going over how to install Wordpress and get it all up and running on the default template. If you have not already read them, you should go back and read the INTRODUCTION and the first post on HOSTING.

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Awesome sauce! So for this series I decided to use a real life example to teach everyone the ins and outs of real world web design. In this article I will be focusing on starting the journey and getting your hosting situation lined up.. Read the rest of this entry →

So you like to use the internet. You read tons of websites, follow people on twitter, and make sure all of your friends keep up with you on facebook. As many of us(design students) get closer to graduation and  professional practice it becomes more and more apparent that a myspace page is not going to cut it for a digital portfolio. Its time for a real website, and in my opinion there is only one place to start.

Wordpress.

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This is just a quick post, I’m writing some cool stuff for next week but wanted to let you know some cool news!

So two months back I took the opportunity to let you know the improvements the site has made. Read the rest of this entry →

Sometimes we as artists need to look to the past for inspiration. Right now we have very little limiting us and our creative nature. But before, designers were confined by the technology and methods of that period. What this means is the art and design work stemming from that time gives us a glimpse upon the life and time of the designers and the audience of the work itself. What we then see in the present is designers using these ideas and creating riveting work with modern technology that has a vintage feel.

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We here at the OVC really want the website to have more community discussions so I am introducing Comments Appreciated a new category for articles here that I really want to have more dialog on. Most of them I will propose a question  or ask for some kind of input.. So here is the first one!

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So we just got permission from the head of the art group of Open Office to let you in on whats going on.
Open Office is a software suite that is built to be a total office program. I havent had Microsoft Office on my computer for 2 years now. Generally you can simply download it, but recently many of the Linux Operating Systems have been pre-installing the software. It’s really awesome software and rarely do I even notice a difference from a MS product.
Best thing is, Its totally free. With thousands of people working on it I decided to get into the Art group to see if I could help out at all. I’ve been pretty busy lately and haven’t been able to jump in on anything but I started reading last night.
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