Finished OutdoorSyndicator.com

Hey there friends and foes - I finished OutdoorSyndicator.com - I feel like it's looking pretty good - there are some spots that are weaker than others, but the site owner is putting in more and more content as time passes.

I especially happy with the fact it was all powered by Wordpress (PHP/CSS) - which was quite a task for me as I haven't worked with PHP very much until recently.

The Flash header also came out very well - feel free to leave critique or comments or anything -- not that anyone reads this fucking this anyway ;)

Right now - I'm still working on Zherpa and I'm revamping my home page so it will be powered by wordpress so it will be easier to update (yay!)

That's it for now,

- Andrew

It's been busy!

Hey blog - things have been super-cal-a-fuck-alistic busy for the last month or so - after signing up for guru.com work just started pouring in.

I'll give a quick rundown of what I'm doing now:

I'm working on 2 different sites, one is: www.outdoorsyndicator.com - the page is currently password protected as I am working on it but here is the password for now: Ransu007

- This project has been a little crazy. I originally thought it would be a simple, static page when I was designing it. Little did I know - he wanted the site powered by Wordpress - with the design I made. The problem with that is, I had never used Wordpress before let alone make a fully custom theme - AND it's all in PHP which I was only vaugely familiar with, HA! Anyways - I got everything working and in Wordpress, which is very exciting because now I KNOW Wordpress and feel confident that I can use it as a CMS (Content Management System) for other clients - it's free and works VERY well, and it's simple for a client to use!
Also, this site has a totally flash header which was a blast to create in as3 - I learned a couple things from doing it - like the best way to make a drop-down menu - go to the company or info links to see the dropdown

I'm also working on another site called: Zherpa - I can't talk about this product too much because it's not out/copywritten - but you will get the idea from some of the screenshots I've posted of the design.


Outdoorsyndicator Designs:
The design we're using:


A design we didn't use




Zherpa Design:

Banners - Interesting Banners

I did 30 banners for a company: 7witches.com

They are a strange subject matter, but a lot of fun to work on! here are some of them.

Design Revalations

I just signed up for guru.com to look for more freelance/contract design work. It's been two days and as I browse the competition I get a lot of ideas and a really good idea of what is making real money out in the field today.

I have found the following sites of designers who do fantastic work:

kit10designs.com
zallas.com

I have decided that my portfolio needs more specific design samples. For example there are a lot of leads for work for real estate business, and they generally want specific examples of work in the field. This holds true for a number of different fields, so I will start making full sites in the fields of largest demand to put into my portfolio.

That's it for now!

New Design Portfolio Site, UP!

Hey, I put up my design portfolio site - it's better than the last one, but I'm still not 100% satisfied. I just did some work on figuring out how to make "fluid flash" layouts for a page, (see last post) and I think I'm going to re-design the page, AGAIN, to fit the whole browser. That gives a lot of new, exciting design possibilities!

here is the new site:

ArtbyAndrew.com

Full Page Flash

I Just did a bit of research and work to figure out how to make flash objects re-position with window size, so I can effectively have a "full-window" flash page!

Here is the example I worked on!

Scale the window to see the effect.

Another Design Job

Hey there kiddies - I've been working a bit on another design job, this one is for a non-profit group called USArtists - Let me know what you all think!

Click here for design

Zoom in on the design to full size it when viewing for best quality