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Web Design
landscape-expressions.com Receives Design Kudos
Aug 22nd
Okay, more gratuitous self-aggrandizement.
The site which I recently finished, landscape-expressions.com , has been featured on the following design sites:
Hooray.
/end self-congratulatory post
Share this: A Brand-Spanking-New Website
Aug 16th
Yeah, so I've been out of the loop quite a bit lately. The primary reason is that I have been working a ton! Beyond my normal web design and development duties at my regular job, I have also been working on some freelance projects which have occupied most of my ridiculously sparse free time (finishing Final Fantasy XII didn't help, either…).
Anyway, I am proud to announce that my first major freelance account is complete and live !
In a nutshell, landscape-expressions.com is a online photography portfolio for Gary Compton, a native of Somerset, Kentucky. In addition to displaying his photographs in an organized fashion, Gary also wanted visitors to be able to purchase various-sized prints online via PayPal.
Overall, this site was incredibly fun to do. Not only was is something I had not done before, but it also provided me the opportunity to utilize some new technologies that I've been dabbling in over the last few months. Primary of these is Adobe's Spry Framework , a robust yet ridiculously easy-to-implement javascript framework which provides the majority of the functionality on this website. One of the particularly nice things about Spry (beyond providing the engine for the gallery) is that it has some nice, native More >
existdissolve.com Receives Design Recognition
Jul 26th
As if having a blog devoted to nothing more than my own personal aggrandizement isn't enough, please allow for but a bit more gratuitous self-promotion. As many of my readers know, my "day job" is web-design. From initial concept creation, to html programming, to database architecture and application development, this is what I do. While I am certainly not the best, I do strive to make things work well and look good.
This site is a product of my most recent efforts. In designing and developing it, I operated with simplicity in mind. While there were a lot of other bells and whistles that I would have liked to add, their inclusion seemed to unnecessarily bulk up the site. Also, I attempted to make the site as bright and inviting as possible. While I liked the color scheme of the old template, it did get quite dreary after a while, and I for one welcome the change.
Well, finally my hard work has paid off in part. Over this last week, I was privileged to be featured on no less than 3 web design showcases. While they all have varying criteria for their entries, the majority of these sites base inclusion More >
Makeover, Updates, and General Website Goodness
Jul 8th
Well, as those who have visited this site are aware, existdissolve.com has undergone major plastic surgery. While I did enjoy the old style, I was becoming somewhat tiresome to me aesthetically, so I decided it was time for a change.
In this new design, I have striven for simplicity. The code itself is tremendously more lightweight, and there should be no significant load times unlike the previous version that took FOREVER to load the sidebar with all the content that was included there. Also, the fonts are a lot larger and easier to read, so hopefully this will cut down on the eye damage that the 11 px font size was causing many on the previous version.
In moving to this design, I have also decided to display several posts on the home page instead of the solitary article that graced the former site. I hope that this will allow me to be able to update more often with shorter posts, not fearing that a major article will be buried in the archives behind something not as significant. Moreover, I have added post snippets of even more recent articles at the bottom with links to the particular articles. Finally, the astute More >
Site Updates and a Goof
Jun 17th
Many may not know this, but I started this blog as a learning experience. I currently work as a Coldfusion developer at a web design company in Lexington, Kentucky, and this blog was my first real adventure in application programming.
Over the last year, I have learned alot, and shudder most times when I look “under the hood” of this beast.
Anyway, here’s some updates: I have added a “remember me” button that will allow users to login automatically when visiting the site. No more annoying logging in just to leave a comment (believe me, no one is more annoyed at that than me…). I have also gotten rid of the comment pop-up window and have decided to place the comments immediately below the relevant, highlighted post.
Moreover, I have placed more than one post on the “home” page. Under the original format, I was hesitant to post short topics simply because I did not want the longer, more developed ones to get lost in the archives. This new way should allow the visitor to quickly browse several of the most recent posts in one fell swoop, and will make me feel better about posting short, random posts about whatever.
Now for the goof: More >
