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I am currently a college student, and will be attending the University of Saint Francis this coming fall.  I attained my Associates Degree in Web Design & Administration from Joliet Junior College.  I was a spotlight student at JJC as well, you can view that article over here.

One of the scholarships that I am applying for is the Franciscan Challenge.  It requires that I write a 500-1000 word paper on why I chose Web Development (Computer Science) as my chosen field. What you are about to read is the essay that I will be submitting. I hope you enjoy it and will possibly be able  see why I do what I do.  Please post your comments and if you want-contact me with anything you may want to know about.

~Jason Kryst

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In the freelance world of work, you may have to find your future clients.  Even the more successful freelancers have to go hunting every now and then.  This is not a bad thing, as you get the chance to possibly chose who you develop for.  I am nowhere near being considered a experienced freelancer, I am still very young and new to the sport.

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One of the sites I have developed is http://chicagosceptors.com.  The community over there has been very kind to me with comments, questions and little tid-bits.  I wrote this article for them.  I hope you enjoy it!

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I have been doing web design for about seven years, with most of the time spent learning and discovering xHTML, CSS, JavaScript and the many other languages that you may find on the internet. I built 126Studios.Com as a placeholder for my own portfolio, with the chance to grow and offer more services such as web hosting. The idea spawned two years ago from my own imagination to start something that could have the possibility to grow into something much larger. I am still very, very small in terms of what I have done, and what I offer. As time passes, I would like to grow into a firm and have a staff of a reasonable size.

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I have begun to notice [or just began to care] about how much spam and illegit comments have come through the blogging channel.  With this advent I am enabling Captcha codes for registration as well and commenting for NON registered users.  Also, I have disabled user password choosing on registration.  You will be able to change your password-but only after you have checked your e-mail.

I hope this is not an inconvenience to any of you-but with spam being the way it is I have to enable stronger protection.

Thanks!

-I have also disabled WP Wall

The Mobile Web is constantly growing and becoming a larger part of the way we access the internet.  Cell phones, BlackBerrys, PDAs, Palm Pilots, and all of the like are growing enormusly.  As a population we are always on the go, and mobile technology helps stay connected with the world around us.  Is it worth building a mobile site?  Well I’d recommend it.  Let’s take a closer look!

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Some of you may have noticed that the entire Web Blog is slighly different.  In the process of upgrading the blog-issues arose and the blog had to be completly rebuilt.  I’ve posted the major posts back up on the site, but minor posts have not been recovered.  I didn’t have a back-up available to the MySQL database or the Word-Press files themselves.  So I had to make a tough decesion and rebuilt from scratch.

In this, to all of my visitors please remember to back-up your files, your media and your information.

Thank You-
Jason Kryst
126 Studios

Well as of this past week, I decided to upgrade 126 Studios with some new CSS 3.0 attributes.  The application of these elements has been a winding road, because browser support is still a little lackluster.  So today I’m going to talk about CSS 3.0 and what it’s going to do for the WWW! Read the rest of this entry »

Development and coding for web sites can get very complicated.  Coding page, after page can get very tedious and very horiffic if not done right, and in an organized completed fashion.  There are many pages to code, and many different ways to achieve a great job of coding, while mainting a great return on your work.  Now, what tools are out there?  What tools should you use?  Let’s take a closer look! Read the rest of this entry »

Halloween is almost here-that’s a good thing for all of those who love the fun day that is about to come upon us.  Now, to the news.  Have yoou ever forgotten to print something?  Have you ever say-forgot your thumb drive at home?  Ever forget o e-mail those files?  Is all of your work maybe at home?  Well the cure is here!   Read the rest of this entry »