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I haven’t updated this in a while because I have been so busy. I have been working steadily on a new photography site for a client. The site is LeeCraftPhotography.com but it won’t be up for a while.

I started with the logo and personally think it is pretty dang cool.

Check out the other logos I have designed HERE

What she is having me do is put together a slide show for each "Senior Photo" photo shoot she does. It is a Flash slide show presentation to display her work and also it wll give each kid a little movie to show around to their friends. It was pretty daunting at first but I somehow tackled it.

I finished one slide show and decided to make another one using pictures of myself as the subject.

Click here to check out my "Senior Photo" slide show.

It requires the latest version of Flash player.

This should be one of my coolest projects yet.

I have many web design projects lining up. Hopefully I will be able to throw together a decent portfolio and land me a REAL job doing this and get the heck out of that stupid truck.

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As you may know, I am trying to break into the professional world of web design, and to do this I need to make myself a portfolio of sites I have done. I thought of getting with a bunch of local bands and seeing if they would like sites done for cheap, and that’s where my buddy Matt McConnell came in. He’s in a band called Downseed and he has been in bands since high school. He has connections with dozens of bands in the area who may be interested in having a web site done up. A lot of bands are content with just having a presence on MySpace, so there’s not such a huge demand for quality web sites for local bands.

So we decided to team up and see what we can do. He’ll hunt down the business and I’ll create the sites. It might not turn out to be much of anything if we can’t get any clients, but at least it’s another lead for me and my portfolio. Matt has been doing business under the name "Dark Five" for years now and he wanted to keep the name and turn it into "Dark 5 Design". I didn’t have a problem with that so there it is.

I created a freaking awesome logo in Flash and here it is.

The first project that we are workin on is the site for his own band. I’ll put it up here when it’s done. YAY.

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Well I’ve finished the project I have been working on for the past few weeks. This has been partly to blame for my lack of updating this here page. It is a photography site for my good friend Glen, called Rainbow Foto. This is the first full site I have created using all of Macromedia Studio 8 including Flash and Fireworks. I designed everything from the ground up. The look and the feel right down to the logo itself.

I’m pretty proud of how it all turned out. I learn a lot every time I work on a new project. Issues come up or opbsacles need to be resolved, and each time this happens I learn for next time. (I guess that’s pretty much how it goes for everything anyone does but I thought I would type it out anyway.) I am putting together a portfolio of sites that I have/will make in order to eventually quit driving a stupid truck and design web sites professionally. I have a number of projects to work on in the future and will post them here upon completion.

Check out RainbowFoto.com

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