I just completed some updates on Kim Gibbons’ Your Mortgage Superhero website and I found myself reading a few of her articles when I should have been working (naturally, I turned off the clock while reading).

She’s has some very useful information for those who are curious about the… Continue reading.

hushMedia wanted to provide a more entertaining way to distribute promotional items for one of their clients so they hired my company to create a trade show kiosk game.

The backgrounds and prize revealing videos were created by 1UP Creations while I wrote the Flash ActionScript 3 code that powers the game and added special effects such as the elevator climbing animation, pulsing logo and red hover states for the buttons. Continue reading.

Today the PLANiT Measuring site that I redesigned for Modern Empire went live. Continue reading.

Modern 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…

It’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.

One 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.

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.

A company called In Post  hired me to build this site for a handbag and wallet company called BE.  I was handed a pdf file from the designer as well as a handful of reference sites and built the site from that, using flash and actionscript 3. Continue reading.