Saturday, November 20, 2010

11/20/2010

5 kinds of fun is what's going on these days. I never fancied myself an archdiocesan designer, but it's just plain coincidence that 2 churches and a youth group in Alabama have all contacted me for design needs. I finally got to play around with jquery for both sites...I truly love the slideshows we can build with jquery.

Speaking of slideshows, it's pretty funny and timely that I got an irritated phone call at work the other day. Some SEO consultant was pretty peeved that her client's slideshow was built in Flash, so she couldn't tag the images. I'm sure I didn't improve the situation when I accidentally blurted out, "Well, seeing as how I used to be blind, image tagging is really only for the visually impaired anyway. Our company is otherwise not concerned with image tagging..."

Anyway, onto the fun stuff:

http://oursaviorparish.org -- Our Savior Catholic Church

I finally got to rectify a wrong here! Their website was built years ago in tables using a 100% width. These guys approached me a couple of months ago desperately needing a site with a fixed width that would fit on everyone's browser. We also redid the graphics to match the altar of their church.

http://southalabamacsa.com -- Sacred Heart of Jesus, Catholic Student Association

These are my favorite kids ever for breaking out of the box. It's kind of embarrassing that the main technology the University of South Alabama is sporting is...the frame. Seriously didn't we leave .htm pages at least 3 years ago? I know I ran as fast as I could. After some recurring difficulties with IT, we slapped on a redirect and moved the hosting to a Windows platform where I promptly indulged into the land of ASP.

We also had a really rockin paint party for the student center. It's always scary when the paint studio picks out the exact colors that I would have chosen.


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I'll have another post as soon as St. John the Baptist gets its sweatshirts printed. I always geek out when I figure out how to build an image entirely out of typography for a project. Sometimes there's nothing better than letters jumbled together. :)

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