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I (as in Linda Goin) am an active writer, journalist, poet, graphic designer, and fine artist with an undergraduate degree in visual communications and a graduate degree in history. My ‘hobbies’ include international travel, culture, mycology, and fiber arts. My twenty-five-year-plus writing career includes thirteen Colorado Press Association awards for journalism, a series of articles and a book about visual communications, Website accessibility issues (see below), and an upcoming book on Photoshop CS2 tips for DMXZone.com. I’ve also contributed over two hundred and fifty articles for BuyandHold’s weekly financial column, “Mom Chronicles,” and I’m a monthly contributor to Better Investing Magazine.
While my education, career, and interests may seem disparate, my underlying focus is on how people generate ideas, how they communicate their thoughts, and how they eventually put their ideas into practice. To this end, artists and designers play a pivotal role in how people utilize form to function within their daily lives. No matter if the art or design is about painting, architecture, or Websites - the form functions (in direct opposition to Dada) in some way or another for any individual who encounters that form (Let’s hear an argument for “non-function” as a “function”!).
For the past four years I’ve been bogged down with my college pursuits, but I hope to put this site to good use once again. Over those four years, WordPress has met various technological challenges to produce a fine format for Websites (Jeffrey Zeldman likes it, so I’m happy). Other individuals have created all sorts of plug-ins to help the Webmaster create a site with more content, more relevant content, and ways to offer readers an opportunity to gain as much information as possible about a given topic through a content-rich site. I hope to take you to the best in design, graphics, and the basics of both through this site and links to other pertinent sites.
