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.
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.
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.
Launched theredtwist.com over the weekend, a simple ecommerce site selling cashmere wraps.
I built the site on wordpress 3 and built the theme on thematic using Will Hornaday’s design.
Launched Sinolynx.com, an informational site for business to business company involved in Chinese trading.
I built the site on wordpress 3, designed the layout and graphics, and built the theme on thematic.
Launched the Limac International, LLC site this week for the international effort of the Limac Corporation.
I built the site on wordpress 3, designed the layout and graphics, and built the theme on thematic.
I was contracted to make a logo for a new company focused in international trade with China. The founders formed the name SinoLynx, LLC and asked me to come up with whatever came to mind. Here are the four original choices I sent them.
There was a unanimous choice for 3, with the small revision of adding an actual “lynx” to the image. Which can be seen in the final version here :
I’ll be developing the site as well, and will post links to that as it get’s completed.
I was contracted to design the Fun City iPhone icon.
And 2009 is finally over, was it a weird year for you too?
With the welcoming of 2010, I have left my positions at Impulse One & 15 Rose, and have moved to Austin, TX. A better opportunity had presented itself to me in the time of searching, and I couldn’t resist, in fact, an overwhelming sense of purpose led me to my move, and keeps me excited and enthusiastic about the future of my being, and the future of my work.
To all of those at Impulse One and 15 Rose, I hope for the best, and know you will do well with what you’re trying to do, and I am always available for help if you ever need it.
Stay tuned for more, now reporting from Austin, TX, in the year 2010…and beyond….
We finally closed the deal on http:/ineed.headshotenergyshot.com, we’ve been liquidating our own product online at 80% off the retail price, and it almost worked, we had some good momentum, but then we failed to delivery…literally. Shipping problems on top of the inventory problem that put us in this mess in the first place made these last 6 months a very tiring liquidation campaign, and now we are finally done with that.
And I breathe a sigh of relief, but only for a moment, I’ll feel great when they’re all shipped and accounted for, and I won’t get another, “I ordered sometime in july, just wondering wtf?” We’re still going through lost orders and backtracking all the shipments to make sure everyone gets their package, but we’re no longer taking any more orders, surprisingly enough we managed to get rid of them all(through several different efforts).
We dropped off a few pallets here at the 15 Rose for awhile, and that turned into an interesting experiment. Leaving them out, then encouraging people to take as much as they want, worked well for the first round of pallets. Three pallets sat in our breezeway for one month before they were taken by the locals willing to grab a few, we ordered three more pallets and they lasted only 4 days, I don’t really know how that happened.
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.