I've been busy recently, working on a friend's website. This particular friend of mine decided recently to go into the T-Shirt business, and she came to me seeking some web design work. I agreed to help out, and over the course of about the last 3 days, the framework of Volo Designs made its debut! You can see the site here, at http://www.VoloDesigns.net.

Bear in mind, there's a lot more work to be done, but the foundation is there. The front end is of my friend's design; I simply put it to HTML. There's a bit of PHP I threw in that was able to work only because my friend had (thank god) learned sometime earlier how to name similar or related pictures with the same prefix and different suffixes based on the image's use. Let me know what you think of it!

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On my end, I did a little bit of remodelling on the main site. You'll notice there's a login box on the right side of the page, THAT'S NOT FOR YOU ^_^. I threw in the ability to log in because I wanted to be able to use the kick-ass admin page I made for this blog. The admin page had, until now, been used solely with the version of this blog system I keep for personal use on my localhost server. But because it granted access to adding and editing news posts without the need to login, anyone who found that page could have messed with the news posts. Now that I've thrown in a login system, I can utilize the admin page for the purposes of keeping this blog up to date. Hooray for me!

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Lets see, personally, I've been accepted to 3 colleges so far. Texas Christian University, Illinois Institute of Technology, and University of California, Riverside have sent me notices of even, strangely enough, a flash video, saying I've been accepted to their school. Now, all that's left to hear from is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UC Irvine and UC San Diego. I should hear from the last of the colleges I applied to by March.

Already, I've received hefty sums of money from TCU and IIT. TCU offered me a $38,000 scholarship over 4 years, which takes about a fourth of the total cost of college off my shoulders. IIT went one better and is giving me the opportunity to receive a full ride. I have to interview for this one, though, so that means a flight out to Chicago sometime next month.

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Well, that about wraps it up for today. Until next time, folks!
-Matt