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Good Luck with your search. I work for a Park Authority also and always worry about stability. We are lucky in that politics drives park openeings, so our group (planning and development) always has plenty to do. We are operating at almost half staff these days. Operations has been decimated.
The other half of our group is paid for by bond funds,…[Read more]

I am somewhere. between using Flash (really basic rudimentary application e.g. no coding)
and WordPress. to do my portfolio website Yours sounds spectacular and should be given your effort and time Can you offer this neophyte any pointers on how to get something a little less polished and snazzy as what Nick has done here and not get too.mired in…[Read more]

I didn’t start this thread to engage hostility…I genuinely wanted to know…

You have to have the reputation and portfolio to get $150 per hour. She just can’t claim it. And if she has no portfolio she has to get the work to build it – no design sale =  no portfolio. If she is asking, she’s not there yet.
 
The other side of the coin is all the landscape architects who can’t get land any jobs that they bid on. They c…[Read more]

close all the tabs, toolbars, windows and buttons that the default 2011 interface throws at you. All you need is the command line and model/paper space tabs.
 
Cad is actually pretty intuitive when you forget about all the junk toolbars and use the command line. If you want to make a line, type “L” for line..Polyline..”PL”..trim, offset, arc,…[Read more]

Unless you like scorched and cracked concrete, you had also better line the inside of the ring with some sort of fire brick.  A gas firepit will create sustained and intense heat that will stress concrete surrounding it.

I’ve never met an accomplished RLA who can also take out the trash.

At my local tech school they put together a CAD class after multiple people had talked to them about it. It would not hurt to contact the instructor for the daytime class and see if they would be willing to do an evening class. Maybe see if you can find others in your situation. Also try the library for books or other information it is free and…[Read more]

I’m looking for an intern..can you handle emptying trash on a monthly basis? No pay of course.

Looks great! I, too, like the napkins. I appreciate the time you took to do something original that even professional web-developers don’t do…male something unique. I’m a bit skiddish on all the animation, but on your site, it works as it sin’t too contrived or flashy. Nice job!

she’s a troll, ignore her.

yeah, yeah, yeah….I was waiting for the trip hazard comment 🙂
The concrete will be stained, curb/ring around firepit masonry to match house, etc.- the finish details have been discussed, more interested in ideas to help make it work effectively at this point, not look pretty (but thanks for the recommendations).

Landscape architecture is a dead end job! I’ll be surprised if the profession is still around in 50 years. And that’s my optimistic view. Yikes!

Flash, CSS…So What? What’s that have to do with landscape architecture? Puhlease don’t use the another way to “marketing” my work tool excuse. Show me where there’s a job listing in ASLA that addresses knowledge in Autocad, Sketch Up, Flash, Web site design, animation…all in one description.

I don’t get it! Get your priorities in order. I agree with Rob and let me add: Are you trying to be a Graphic Designer or Landscape Architect? The time you put into learning Flash, Dreamweaver and all the fancy pansy software tools of the modern graphic designer, you could be learning landscape stuff, such as trying to be licensed! I create web…[Read more]

Where are the jobs? In a different market, maybe a flower shop with mothers day coming. I used to work at a flower shop and they make bank if your in a good location.  Think about all the holidays, wedding, deaths, graduations, birthdays, etc why doesn’t Landscape architecture have special days like this, like earth day you think people would…[Read more]

My main concern is that a concrete patio with a 4-6″ concrete fire ring sounds institutional, cold and unattractive. Are you giving the concrete any kind of finish to make it unique? I.E. Polish/grind the fire-ring and sand-blast the field to create a different texture while exposing the aggregate in both elements?
Also, with gas, you will need…[Read more]

Colroado Springs, eh?
 
The army may be expanding, but last I heard they were shutting the streetlights out at dusk and cut the parks dept.