I’m not a big proponent of flash-based design, unless it’s something that I think is really, really well done or the flash serves a purpose. The guys over at Funnel Design Group really surprised me with their Flash-based website. Their theme and execution is very impressive. The attention to detail is awesome. Scope em out at http://www.funneldesigngroup.com.
Category: Design
Posts on graphic and web design.
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Free XHTML/CSS Editor…
This tool seems pretty darn cool. Check it out. http://www.chami.com/html-kit/download/
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Major Updates Underway
I made some major updates to the stylesheets and templates powering the site. I streamlined the code even further to (hopefully) speed up the site even more than before. I’ve got some pretty ambitious ideas for the site that I hope to implement over the next couple of weeks. One of the main ideas I’d like to tackle is implementing a real blog system into the site. This will make posting easier for me, and will allow visitors to comment on the stuff I add to this site. (All two of you.)
Oh yeah. More pictures are on the way. I’ll be adding them to the site sometime between tonight and tomorrow night.
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The Longest Day
I struggle to write this given the late hour… It’s been one helluva day. I woke up at 7am to take my truck to get it checked out, and it’s been non-stop ever since. Kim and I (with the help of her family) made amazing progress on our yard and in our house (we’re remodeling our guest bathroom). While I was away at the Addy’s tonight, my brother- and father-in-law demolished our entire bathroom — sink, vanity, toilet, floor and all. It looks like downtown Baghdad in there. While they were in there having their “fun” I was downtown at The Pinnacle Club for the 2003 Augusta Advertising Federation’s Addy’s Ceremony. The Alison Group had an amazing night. We won ALL THREE Best of Show Awards, FIVEGold Addy’s, and I can’t tell you how many Silver Addys. I even won two Silver Addy’s for two websites I had worked on:
Needless to say, I’m extremely please with how well we did. This was the second year in a row that we brought home all of the Best of Show awards. We took home a lot of awards… I’m more glad than ever to be apart of such an amazing company.
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MAJOR Updates Underway
MAJOR updates underway. Revamped the site shell. Reorganized the pages. Reorganized my stylesheet. Reworked all of my template files. Welcome to Version 8.0. An interesting sidenote to this is — I’m finally using Dreamweaver MX to work on the site… It saves a lot of time being able to work in one program opposed to working in Notepad, WSFTP, and Internet Explorer… Why’d I wait so long? Still hand-coding though… Some habits are hard to kill…
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Stuff
It’s been a couple of days since I posted anything on the website. It has been a rather hectic week for me. I’ve been working pretty diligently on two sites that I hope to preview on here next week. Work’s been keeping me extremely busy. I’ve had late nights 3 out of 5 nights this week. Last night I didn’t get in until after 11:30pm. When you leave for work at 7am and get home that late… it makes for one hella-long day. It’s cool though. The weekend is here. I’m just chilling, taking a breather, watching my favorite tv shows (American Chopper and American Hot-Rod on the Discovery Channel). Until my next update…
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i told ya’ll i’d be busy…
hehe… i said “ya’ll”. shoot me, please.
the past week has been pretty hectic. i’ve got a few projects that are finally getting wrapped up and i’ll be glad to get them out of the way. i really need to spend some more time with my girlfriend. i’ve been neglecting her as of late. but i am getting better. work is good. my freelance stuff is picking up. designed a few logos with linda last night for a snowboard company. got a few other things underway as well. it’s lookin good i could use the cash, as always. anyways, i’ll update later. stay tuned. -
more i told ya’ll i’d be busy…
just performed a major hardware upgrade on my computer. i worked out a deal with some friends of mine to do some design work for a new hard drive. it’ll be nice to have some extra room on my system to play with. (my mp3 collection tends to stretch the limits of my main hard drive far too often.) i’ve been pretty busy working on several site designs and logos lately. keeps me busy at work. that’s for sure. i’ve got a meeting tomorrow morning with a music production company about doing some designs for some cds they are producing. will be a good opportunity for me i think. i’m looking forward to the work, if they take me on as a freelancer. today i finally finished the brochure for a technology conference being held here in augusta in the not too distant future. the client was highly impressed with my work, and i’ve gotten great comments on the work i did on the publication. if possible, i may put a copy of it online in pdf format in the not to distant future for you all to check out. it’s not overly complex. the design is simple and straight- forward. i like simplicity. too much on a page can be very distasteful to the eye. anyways, i’ll post more later. gotta wrap things up on the sga site. it’s due tomorrow. ttfn.
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Palm’s are Kewl!
This is my first entry to the website, prepped exclusively on my Palm m100. I tell ya, I really can’t imagine how I got along without one of these before. I feel like I’m more organized than ever before. Anyway, my meeting with the SGA Executive Council went remarkably well. They really love the concept I came up with. I’ll be finalizing the layouts through week’s end. Well, I gotta go. I shall update later!
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it’s gonna be one of those days
great, now the internet is screwed up here at work. i hate peachnet. why must we be on a state-run pipeline? in case i hadn’t mentioned it before, the company i work for is located just outside of augusta technical college. actually, we’re in a building that is managed by atc, so technically, i guess you could say we’re on the campus of atc. anyways, i digress. because of that affiliation with the school, our building receives internet access from the state through the atc servers. usually, we get a pretty reliable signal. since yesterday afternoon though, it’s been unbearable. i’d rather have dialup right now. at least i could get some freaking work done. as a matter of fact, i’m typing this at work right now, but i probably won’t be able to upload it until later on tonight. sucks, huh? anyways, i’ll stop bitching. it’s not very becoming of me, is it? all i know is: if this isn’t fixed soon, i’m going home to get some work done. i can’t deal with this crap all day long.