First website launched

http://berryanimalhospital.com is officially launched.

Put most of the finishing touches on it in the past two days. It turned out pretty nice. It is a very simple site that provides the main info about the business, the services they provide, and a little about Dr. Berry and Dr. Moody. I think it is pretty cool that I embedded the Google map on the contact page. Even made a Site Map page, so when submitting it to Google and Yahoo, it will help it get linked to easier.

I took the pictures of the building and of the sign. The other animal photos are from a royalty free stock photo site.

Overall, I think I am pleased with the results. Hopefully Dr. Berry and his staff will be too!

Free stuff!

http://colorburned.com/2010/05/giveaway-announcement-10-colorburned-readers-win-500-free-business-cards-from-uprinting.html

I have mentioned before the many design sites and blogs that I hit up to score free tutorials and sometimes images, etc, but how about scoring some free business cards!

Just learned that I won 500 business cards from uprinting.com and colorburned.com.

Uprinting is the best place online to get stuff printed, they have the best prices and the quality is top notch!

Colorburned is a great site to get knowledge and hit up the awesome tutorials.

Thanks to both of these sites for the free swag...

David Airey, you are my design hero

I spend a good bit of time checking out other designers online. It usually ends up with me seeing a design that blows my mind and I end up thinking one of two things.

1. I wonder why I didnt think of something like that.
2. I end up thinking that I am just a design boy trying to be a design man.

One of the most impressive and talented designers I have ever encountered online is David Airey.

He designs in the style that appeals to me. Modern, clean, lots of white space, and cleaver and creative.

He updates his site several times a week and registers millions of hits in a given week.

I read one post today about convincing a client that they need a brand, not just a logo. Interesting read, probably just to me, but at least check out his portfoilio.

I want to be him when i grow up.

Free cool stuff

Over the past couple of years I have really dove into graphic design blogs and resource websites headfirst. The good ones are regularly updated and have some really good tutorials, advice, or free vector images.

I found one really cool thing today. I always loved old polaroid photos, you know the instant kind! The pictures (most were from the 1970's) were really washed out with lots of yellows and reds, made even faded a little. I found a free download of a Photoshop action that converts photos to "Polaroid" style.

Check it: http://rawimage.deviantart.com/art/Polaroid-GENERATOR-V2-118854065


Browsing some of the design blog sites you will find that there are plenty of talented artists out there who are willing to just give away their hard work to help out other designers.

Who said that nothing is free?

Plugged in

http://www.brenthobbsdesign.com

Finally launched the site today, after a few small changes. I am pretty happy with it and hope it gets some traffic and some interest from potential clients. (HINT HINT)

Also took some time today to stink up a round of golf. I went to Southern Gayles just down the road. Should have tried to sell them on a website in exchange for many free rounds. File that one away, that was a good idea.

Anyway, recharged the batteries a little and moving on to the next project, which is a website for a vet locally here in Ardmore. Have a few concepts worked out, but need to tighten them a little before I present them to him.

Check the homepage out and let me know your comments and email me!

About to throw the switch

Like the mad scientist tilting his creation upright to unleash him on the world, I am very close to going live with brenthobbsdesign.com.

It has been a few weeks of off and on work, but it is almost ready to go. I wanted to keep it very simple at first. Minimalist design, lots of white space, clean and orderly. I plan on giving it a reboot every year or so and hopefully that progression will lead it to become more streamlined with a really slick design to it.

I have been working on other projects as well, so maybe business will get off the ground and get moving.

Back to the lab...(insert evil laugh)