RockMug

I've belonged to the Mug (Mac Users Group) since before DS12 was born. I held office of Graphic Design Sig (Special Interest Group) Leader, but the growing responsibility of my growing family, as well as working full time, lead me to all but drop all volunteer work. But I always was included in the core group.

With the sudden death of our president 2 years ago, the Mug has dwindled in size. Sometimes only 8 people show. Maybe it's because we don't get the freebies any more: most freebies are available on the web. And software companies don't send reps out to evangalize to Mugs like they used to. Or maybe it's because the previous president was such a strong personality, that his absence made a vacuum impossible to fill, although the president of the previous 2 years did his best. Elections were held 2 weeks ago, and our new president is a young guy, who I hope brings new blood to the group.

I was named Webmaster Assistant in charge of Design changes. Forgive me if I don't list everyone, I haven't decided how annonamous a want this blog to be.

Our group boasts some very talented designers, but our web site was rather poorly designed, so I under took to redesign the site. I came up with something that everyone at the sig liked, but sadly never followed through with it, and when I found the disk I had burned, was surprised to find it dated 11 months ago!

I did it all in PhotoShop, one of my top three programs, the others being Illustrator and Quark. Now that I've been working for the last 6 months, I've picked up additional web design skills, so I feel ready to tackle this project once more.