Redesigned and launched once again! Beautiful logo design by Shawn Lemmon inspired me for a new look for Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful. ktmb.org received 4 seasonal variations of the logo from Shawn- naturally I felt the need to make four seasonal variations of the site theme to match. So when the PHP strikes to add winter, spring, summer, or fall to the body classes, we’ll have something new and fun to look at for Continue reading
Yay! ERGObaby.com It’s been, what, two years of effort? The first year was a hilarious firey failure that imploded upon itself (exaggeration, but it sucked). This year, however, was fabulous. We began the year with finding some new partners- eComm platform, designers, copywriters, leaders, etc.. I won’t name the leaders, but they’re incredible people, who I’m thrilled to call my colleagues. I can’t name the ecomm software that we’re running because I hate it, I Continue reading
New site for Truckee Meadows’ community publication: Serving the Truckee Meadows since 2009, GRENO is a sustainable publication for our community - a tool for solution and awareness, educating our community on sustainability. In 2011, GRENO was gifted and has become a project of Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful. This small, organic publication is a resource for our community. A simple and locally printed publication on recycled paper with soy based inks, taking sustainability into consideration in the publication itself. Continue reading
A freebie? Sure I’ll do a freebie for a very good friend’s mom! Art D’Rector is a faux finishing/decorative painting company based in Reno Nevada. Check out the site and get your house decorated! ArtdRector.com
I've been designing and building websites for longer than I can remember now. Back in the early 1990s I was busy building lame static html pages over at GeoCities- ahh the good old days! There was a long subsequent period where I didn't think about websites, design, and coding (my dark period).
During my college years at the University of Nevada, Reno I took over the design and maintenance of the university's Student Union site. It was a fun way to spend 6 hours a day, sitting in my private little office and learning what was new and exciting in the web design world (back then, CSS). I studied computer science and art at UNR, and somehow that led me down the path of full-time website design and development.
For the last few years I've been focussing my attention on Drupal CMS based websites; was always looking to squeeze more functionality out of that CMS and make things that were new and exciting (read: I hate vanilla installations and love custom stuff). Drupal quickly becomes a pain when one has to spend a week every month updating all those sites, to keep up with all those security patches!
Historically, Wordpress was always a little on the lame side in my opinion- but, as of version 2.8, things started to get really interesting in that CMS. I'm having fun exploiting everything that Wordpress offers up for undocumented functionality, and it will continue to be my CMS of choice for a while.
TL;DR: I design & build websites and have been doing it for a long time. It's a great way to make a living!
