May 11th, 2010
This last month has been pretty busy. Several individual sites (non long term jobs), and some still in the works (and more to come).
One of the jobs I’ve finished is www.rccme.com, a strange site for me since it was a ‘corporate’ website, a Saudi Arabian Construction Company to be exact. I never spoke with the clients once, having another client as a mediator, maybe for the best. I always wonder how a woman would be treated in a ‘professional’ position by men in the middle east. I know theres some modern cities there but its widely known as the worst place on the planet to be a woman. Either way, I was paid and wasn’t hassled much about the design or content, in fact I’m kind of waiting for them to find the time to actually look at the site and ask for changes they should have asked for during the creation process.
www.rccme.com
Its not really my style but it’s work and with student loans sneaking up on me, I can use all I can get. The only example they gave me of what they wanted was their competitors website, a Dubai Construction Company. I immediately recognized the style as “templatey” and that’s generally what they got except I built it from scratch and its WC3 Compliant and uses all css, as most crappy old template sites are not and do not.
Another site I worked on was for the Spokane Songwriters Organization. The client is psudo-family and the organization is non profit so it wasnt the best paying job but fun to make a website that will be active and community based. I installed a forum, wordpress, events calendar, music player, photo gallery, shared user registration, group emailing and other features that will be useful for organizing events and sharing opinions, music and events for the users – once everyone is comfortable using it.
spokanesongwriters.org
Another site I’m working on and almost done with is for an author ( I get lots of those!) Adrian Matejka. His work is urban themed, modern, cultural reference filled poetry and I like it allot. Seems like every author I get to make sites for is really great. Makes me feel guilty for not reading more modern books than War of the Worlds. I cant help myself though, I feel like I’m playing catchup with the last 2 centuries ( I read lots from centuries before in highschool so I’m slowly making it to the 21st century).
adrianmatejka.com splash page
adrianmatejka.com
I also made changes to the homepage of www.shopadornonline.com, giving it more banner styles images on the homepage rather than just products.
http://www.shopadornonline.com/
For my mothers birthday in late March, I made her a website for blogging and selling some of her photos, www.dreamworksphoto.net, Unfortunately she doesn’t use yet it, but its the thought that counts right :(
dreamworksphotos.net
Now I’m working on a site for a friend for his recording company, making regular updates to Shop Adorn and setting up for other jobs coming my way including another recording studio, a photography site, a baking supply site and of course my own badly needed site updates.
