People have incredible lie detecting antennae. These feelers give people a sense of who you are and what your company is about from the very first seconds that they experience your brand. This initial experience can be through the web, an email, a brochure or pamphlet, tv, radio, or even word of mouth. If you’re lying, misrepresenting yourself, or pretending to be something you’re not, people will pick up on it and it will negatively impact your brand.

I had a client come to me several years ago wanting an identity package and a website for his window washing company. I was a young designer, so I was thrilled with the work that found it’s way to my inbox. At this point in my career I was actually mouse cursor inside a graphics program which the client could control by … Read More »

This is my first attempt at creating a jQuery plugin.
I used something like this with mootools on my Senston Homes site. But i simplified it and made it a plugin for jQuery (who the heck uses mootools anymore?) Basically, this plugin resizes a backround image to fill the browser window while maintaining it’s proportions. Kind of cool if you want to do some translucent divs over top of it or something.

Just put this HTML in a page:
[cc lang="html"]

Backsizer

a jQuery Plugin by Bucky Flowersbuckyflowers.com

[/cc]

All you need to make it work is to include your background image, jQuery, and the jquery.backsizer.js files and you’re good to go.

View Demo Here

backsizer-demo.zip

Web Content

These days more and more content is available on the web. First it was just text…it wasn’t that interesting to most people, but it was pretty amazing that information could be shared, linked, and read all over the world. Then came images and people started to really take notice of this thing called the “internet” and “websites”. Everyone wanted to get their “Webset on the Internite”. People realized that the web could be used to make money! You could sell stuff and advertise… the possibilities were endless.

Now we have more types of content like video, audio, flash, and games. As the web grows in popularity and browsers and computers continue to improve, more and more types of content will be available. However, these types of content all have one thing in common… they are all displayed using HTML.

What … Read More »

After a few short months Overstock.com now has a Mobile site. I used the jQtouch framework for the animations, etc.
It is optimized for iPhone and iPod touch… but displays well on Android and Palm Pre (webkit browsers)

My favorite features about the site are the buttons which use a border-image that goes transparent when tapped to reveal a spinning gif as a background image… I thought that was a good solution to having an active state and a loading indicator. Also, it looks great in both orientations: portrait and landscape.

Were still working out bugs and small display errors… but we had really pressing deadlines to get this up for the Holiday Season.

I would love to hear any feedback…

Ok. This thing is getting close to being done. I just need to add my portfolio and about page. Now the hard part has begun… building the site was easy but writing content on a regular basis is going to be difficult. I can do it though. I’m going to force myself to crank out at least one entry per week.
On top of that I probably should start actually using all of those social profile sites that are linked up in the top right. I’ve never been very vocal or active on the web, but now since I do it for a living, I should start to contribute something to the online community and build my network of contacts in the industry.
I’m going to try and go to a couple of conferences next year, hopefully my work will pay for … Read More »