Posts Tagged ‘resources’

I’ve been working on this redesign for a long time. It’s actu­ally been redesigned three times, and of course it isn’t 100% ready to launch, but I’m quite sure it never will be, and it was about time I updated my stag­nating website.

Lots of stuff is new. Everything’s been restruc­tured and rebuilt using Ruby on Rails. There’s a resources sec­tion that’s pretty wiki-like up. There are RSS feeds of the news and the pro­jects. There’s more con­tent every­where. And reason why I’ve been so quiet the last little while?

• folkharbour.com
• bluenosedining.com
• nsyl.ca
• the BusStop
• Inside-Out Cleaning Services
• the Switch
• Traveller’s Joy
• Ninja Monkey Knits
• News­paper Ad

…plus a ton­sil­lec­tomy, and com­puter woes like you wouldn’t believe, and learning a new pro­gram­ming language.

Say hello to Marigold, who’ll be working with me from now on. Marigold will be taking over some pro­ject man­age­ment duties so that I can become more of a hermit.

Say goodbye to Dinah, who dis­ap­peared in November and prob­ably isn’t coming back.

New pro­jects are in the pipeline, and I have offi­cially quit my job in order to go freel­ance full-time. Need some work done? Now’s a great time to ask, while I’m still a little para­noid about that whole not-getting-a-paycheque thing.

I’m excited. Everything is new and I am learning things at such an expo­nen­tial rate. It’s going to be one hell of a ride.

I’m working on a com­plete over­haul of the web­site — every day I add a few more items to my todo list and make more cor­rec­tions to my Illus­trator tem­plate. In defer­ence to this A List Apart art­icle, this isn’t just an aes­thetic redesign — actu­ally, I ini­tially hadn’t intended to redesign, but then I started reworking my logo, and everything’s been stem­ming from that. I’m plan­ning on more con­tent, including a resources wiki that will con­tain a whole slew of explan­a­tions of the tech­nical stuff I tend to babble about and then find myself needing to explain to all my cli­ents. Anyway. Hope­fully, that should be along soon.

In actual pro­ject news, I had a busy spell at work but now I’m in a slow spell, since Cricket ’07 seems to have wrapped itself up in pre­par­a­tion for a November release. I’m gearing up for a much-anticipated ton­sil­lec­tomy October 2^nd, so hope­fully I’ll be able to wrap up a few ongoing pro­jects before my con­vales­cence com­mences. Ongoing pro­jects include a web­site for the Blu­enose Lodge Casual Dining, a redesign of the Nova Scotia Young Lib­eral‘s web­site, and logo/identity pro­jects for Ninja Monkey Knits, Traveller’s Joy, Inside-Out Cleaning Ser­vices, Nor­wood Media, and the BusStop Theater.

In other news, the Switch has just fin­ished recording their first album, fea­turing a cover designed by yours truly. I also did some posters to match and the web­site is in pro­gress. Make sure to come out to the album release party (September 29^th at the Attic) to snag your copy and for the chance to see me intro­du­cing the band while dressed as Gene Sim­mons. No, I’m not kidding.