Archive for the ‘Design’ Category



Case Study:
Presidential Air Before and After

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
The new Presidential Air home page

A new look for presidentialair.ca

I’m currently finishing up some work for Presidential Air, an air charter company based out of Barrie, Ontario. I was contacted by the CEO after he visited the Flash website that I’d built a number of years… Continue reading.

Giving Mr and Mrs Hypnotist a facelift

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Screenshot of new Mr and Mrs Hypnotist websiteI recently gave Mr and Mrs Hypnotist a facelift. Well, not Mr and Mrs Hypnotist themselves, just their website. Mr and Mrs Hypnotist are a husband and wife team consisting of Paul Irving and Beth Bovaird. They put on a live show involving Beth’s skills as a hypnotist and Paul’s as a comedian… Continue reading.

Current Project – PLANiT Measuring

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Work In Progress: The Planit WebsiteModern Empire Inc. has hired me to work on a site for one of their clients, Planit Measuring.

As part of a marketing overhaul being overseen by Modern Empire we’re doing a redesign, adding some flash elements as well as incorporating an easily updatable News page and password protected Client Area.

Planit produces “real-time, digital floor plans for all property types across North America. Using our patent-pending…

Flash website for Club Ash Bar & Lounge

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

clubash.caIt’s been a long time since I’ve updated the site. Work has been keeping me extremely busy. One of my most recent projects has been a flash website for Club Ash Bar & Lounge, a new club opening in Barrie, Ontario this fall. I’m pleased to announce that the site is now complete and online.

The site features, a music player, on-line VIP sign up, reservations and job applications as well as restaurant and bottle service menus updated from xml… Continue reading.

Some orphaned designs

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Click to see larger versionOne of the pitfalls of being a freelancer is that, on occasion, you run into situations where it’s necessary to do some work to get some work.

By that I mean, you have to attend meetings, prepare design sketches and present them to a client all before being paid a penny. Some times this pays off and some times it doesn’t. When it doesn’t, you find yourself in possession of “orphans”, designs that are doomed to walk the earth, never fully realized and unattached to a project.

This is the story of just such a scenario and the designs that resulted. Continue reading.

Photoblog Designs

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

My sister had a baby last year and immediately caught the photography bug. She’s taken some amazing photos with her digital SLR camera and has decided that she wants a serious venue to display her shots. She’s found a number of photoblogs she admires and has ask me to design one for her. The sites she likes are all wide, one column designs and she wants to have a nice animated flash box in the header. Continue reading.