Built this custom wordpress child theme for Firelight Kitchens. Firelight Kitchens in an outdoor/indoor kitchen consultant based here in Austin.
FLK provided the design, which was created by Tenderling.
Several custom elements were needed that I built into the theme, the home page needed images to fade in and out, as well as a section that changed randomly on refresh. There is also a custom scroll bar on a second level page. All custom visual elements were built in using jQuery.
We were accepted into Art Outside 2011 with Light Doodler, a bit of a deviation off of LZR with the predominant aspect being user interaction instead of a light show.
It turned out working better than expected, we set the wall up and walked away and every time we would walk back we would see another group of people doing something different, everyone experienced it their own way, and it was so much more fulfilling to offer something like that to the festival.
Thanks again to all who participated and joined us that weekend, it remains one of my favorite festivals of the year.
Helped out Will Hornaday’s sister upgrade her site for Grace Media to wordpress, she wanted to be able to post “News” items to her site. Took her original site and built a theme based on her previous design.
Eagle Mineral Company needed a site built, and built quickly, I put this together overnight and they were happy with it. Sometimes short and simple is all you need.
Mel won a meet and greet with Xavier Rudd, really nice guy. I managed to shoot this with my phone while we were all standing around, and Mel posted it to Rudd’s wall and told him thanks. We were then contacted by a Rudd fan, Mark, in the UK who wanted a print, and so I was able to ship him one. Pretty much all the back story needed on that one, but I had a fun time with this being that I was able to sell a print to another fan, and since they really appreciated it, it made it even better.
hi Scott got the photo today and yippy yi ya it’s great thankyou so much for takeing the time to sort that for me my friend . big hugs to you and Melissa from across the pond .
-Mark
We walked around the San Antonio Botanical Gardens, shot a few pictures of the place. Had a fun time feeding the wildlife.
My colleague Will Hornaday asked me to build his portfolio site that he designed. I built the site on wordpress, and used the viewport theme to achieve the sliding panels of the portfolio pages, then created a custom template for the blog pages. I used jquery to create the fade-in animation as the home page loads, and used this post to figure out how to get the random image to load.
I designed and built this wordpress site for Eagle Service Group. I worked with the client through two rounds of design revisions, then built the theme using thematic.
I used MMForm Community to handle the various forms on the site, it is a good form plugin, and it’s free, another option if you ever need to collect any data on your site.
I’m writing this as a simple reminder to all people who operate wordpress sites. If you want to run your own copy of wordpress on your own server, do not use godaddy as your server provider.
Now that I’ve had two clients have come back to me regarding performance issues, I must write this in hope to remind others as well as myself to choose a reliable hosting option, and also to offer this solution if you find yourself stuck with godaddy.
Godaddy has introduced a new hosting solution titled 4GH. And if you have your hosting from before sometime this year, chances are you aren’t using it. Now godaddy plans on moving it’s customers to this new platform, but you can do it yourself if they haven’t found time for you.
This should hopefully help your performance issues, and if it doesn’t, then it’s time to move to a new host.
Visited the Zilker Kite Festival over the weekend, shot a little video, hope Disney doesn’t pull it.
A couple shots taken at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
Mel and I spent the New Years on Galveston Island, and popped some jellyfish.
Latipac Commerical Site Build
Launched Latipac.com this week for Latipac Commercial, LLC, a property management company with locations in Houston and Austin.
Built on wordpress 3, I used an elegantthemes premium theme built for reality sites as a framework, and customized it to fit the client’s needs. Also used a handy google maps plug-in for wordpress called MapPress to handle the maps on the “Properties” page.