I let this blog fall by the wayside!  I’ve been busy with work but haven’t taken the time to upload my latest projects.

I designed MyToothTrip.com, and I must say the owners were great to work with.  They knew what they wanted, had examples of sites they liked, and even knew the content they intended to use.  It made designing for them a real treat!  Check their site out and tell me what you think.  It was Joomla-based.

My friend Jamie, owner of ThePataCakeBaby.com, is opening a new site, so we’ve been toying around with look/feel ideas.  The store will be Baby Cottage Gifts, so here is a jpeg of a potential header:

Cottage, Trees, Flowers, Grass, and Sky

I’m pretty sure we’ll go a different way, but I wanted to point out that this was all done by hand with vectors.  Jamie asked me, “Where did you get the little graphics?”  Well, I made them!  Ha!  And I did them fairly quickly too.  I’ve been brushing up on my vector skills and I’d say I’m improving.

I have some SEO work to do by Friday, some work for Carrie, and of course the site for Jamie.  And–eventually–I really need to redo my OWN site because I haven’t left enough room for all my portfolio.  I am in a graphic design community on Livejournal and lately there have been a lot of discussions on portfolio display styles.  I want to go back through all the posts and get a clear idea of how I want my portfolio to look, then I’ll redesign my site that way.  For people who are evaluating me as a potential web designer, the portfolio is the most important part.

Also, in my spare moments, I am toying with the idea of designing templates for purchase for Wordpress, Joomla, and more.  I’ve become pretty proficient at these.  I need to look into how to go about integrating a shopping cart with my site, or setting up a second site with a shopping cart for immediate graphic and template purchase.  Perhaps this is down the line!  But it’s something on my mind.