All posts by Paula Carlson

Not mine but still cool

The launch of new homepages!

Yesterday our department launched all new section homepages! I have absolutely nothing to do with this project, but it’s all pretty nifty–they can finally be viewed with some efficiency on mobile devices!

http://www.getty.edu/research/
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/
http://www.getty.edu/foundation/
http://www.getty.edu/museum/

They were built using the Foundation framework, which we started using back when we launched the new Visit section (I also had nothing to do with that project–we have a lot of projects going on at any given time). Foundation really makes everything so much easier when you’re building for multiple platforms, as everyone should be doing now, given how many gazillion platforms there are out there.

We’re still working on converting all of our pages, but let’s face it, with over 50,000 pages of content, it’s going to take us awhile.

Miscellaneous

Starting anew!

It’s been a very long time since I posted on this site, and I’m hoping to change that going forward. For starters, a new introduction!

Me, with freshly blued hair
Me, with freshly blued hair

I’m Paula Carlson, and I’m a web developer in Los Angeles, working at The Getty for the past fourteen years. I build websites, mobile sites and apps, and occasionally, in-gallery interactives. I do *not* design, hence the generic twentyfourteen theme on this site. I do, however, take photographs on occasion–hence the pretty flower image up at the top there.

Will I be doing this forever? It sure feels like it sometimes. I’m certainly doing it now and for the foreseeable future, so I’m hoping to keep track of some of my accomplishments–and failures–right here.

It’s late and I’m hungry, so more later.

Wordpress

Work work work!

This is a website I’ve been working on for a friend:

www.RoadMommy.com

Screencap of Maya's site

I’m insanely happy with it, and I hope she is too (I’m still waiting for feedback). I started with the Florance theme by Jinsona Designs, mostly for the rounded corners, which I hate creating myself. I had to hack the rest of it quite a bit, but I kept the slideshow (so far) and the boxy style on the post meta info (comments, tags, etc.). Of course, the hacking was the fun part.

I’m not terribly good at fading with Photoshop, so if the screen is too wide, you can see the outside edge on the left side of the background image. I’ve gotta hit up my designer friends to see if anyone can help me fix that. I think that’s the only thing I don’t like, though. The colors ended up coming together really well, which isn’t usually the case when I make a stab at designing (not really my forte).