Projects

This is a redesign of an older version of the site that was built a while back, well, 2006. North Padre Island Construction is my father’s company down in Corpus Christi, Texas. I spent my childhood building decks with him back in the day. In fact, I helped build several of the projects in his gallery! The original site width was a lot thinner and it was all just straight html. The new site is built upon Wordpress, and takes advantage of several cool plugins and offers the all the advantages of having a CMS. The new site was meant to ... Full Post »

The Josh Stevens Foundation site is now live. It’s been a pretty fun project to work on, they’ve got some great ideas and they are just getting started! Drew and Barbara Stevens lost their oldest son Josh in a tragic accident back in 2008. They were flooded with stories from people who commented on how kind he was so they took that idea and formed a foundation in his honor about spreading kindness. They have this tri-fold kindness card that they offer to organizations who would like to promote ‘catching’ kids in the act of doing something kind. It’s a pretty ... Full Post »

Here’s a logo that I finished recently for Wadsworth Leatherworks. Austin Wadsworth is the owner of the company and you can see some of his work here. Overall I think the final result is pretty cool on that leather background. The base logo was created in Illustrator, and the paths were copied into Photoshop as smart objects. The effects were then applied there. These are the vector versions of the logo. The logo above is limited to the size it can be scaled up because it is a raster images that uses pixels. The images below are scaleable to any size.

Ok, so it’s been a while since we’ve had a major update to LDSJournal.com and I know there are probably a lot of folks who have been waiting for some of these new features. Among other basic improvements to the service, LDSJournal GOLD features: An Ad-free environment Email-to-journal Export to PDF 2GB Footnote and photo storage capacity Here’s a screenshot of some of the new icons in the settings section. My Library was already there, the billing and shipping area is for you to view book orders, GOLD service payments, etc. The email to journal section is where you can configure the email addresses that ... Full Post »

This screencast shows the creation of a vector ray gun for the next exciting episode of “The Adventures of Captain Can-it”. See the cartoons here: paininthedrain.com/cartoons.aspx and stay tuned to see the ray gun in action.