Donation Flyer

Created a flyer for a little friend in town. 

Christmas Card: 10 minutes GO!

I get this all the time, I am working on something, someone comes in my office tells me, "Hey, don't spend too much time on this or  anything, but make it look good.  Ha. This time it was a Christmas card for our annual party.  Well I had 10 minutes and came up with this.  K, Back to work.

WP-Ecommerce Shipping and Checkout Error

Pretty much spent 3 hours on this so far and couldn't find a solution...After searching online for some answers I found nothing that helped specifically.  I found the answer  and hope this helps some people from going crazy.  For me it was simply a horrible UX problem.  Under the Shipping option in the Wordpress Admin I scrolled down to where it says Shipping Modules and by chance hovered over the right side of the option FLAT RATE and an EDIT button showed up.  I clicked on it and it gave me the option to then update what rates I would use for my flat rates.  This is the same thing for Weight Rate and Table Rate.  After I configured the settings I went back to the "Checkout" page and tried to purchase one of my products to figure that the option was now configuring what it needed to to process the order, bringing up the Customer details needed to complete the purchase.  So glad I found that Edit button but WTH really a grey button on grey background.

Here is the image of what saved the day.

Log Cabin 2.0

After a bit of a hiatus, I have put back in action Log Cabin.  I will hopefully finish it for this upcoming Addy awards.  If you are reading this having no clue what I'm talking about, I started a project earlier this year called Log Cabin.  It is a web project of mine where Web designers can come hang out in an outdoorsy atmosphere read articles, check out tutorials in "The Woods", and talk amongst each other in the forum I created, called "Camp Fire". I also threw in a merch section called "Bear Necessities".  When I am finished with this project it will be fully functional on any device making it a fully responsive site.  It has been quite a journey and can't wait to start filling up the site with content.  Can't quite remember the deadline for the Addy's but am starting to feel the heat.  I have probably spent the last two weeks hitting the functionality of the site pretty hard and have finally come to the UX aspect as I can now step back, make it mobile, and think about more aesthetics.  Also got a pretty nifty domain name I'm pretty excited about.  I don't want to give too much away but here are some updated pics below.

Extreme Biking Poster for Project

Don't post much from work but thought this wasn't too crazy to post.  A little poster created for one of the brands that they will take to present to the community where we are building their new bike park.  Figured this would help keep some motivation while it is being constructed.

I took the photography in Arkansas this summer during one of the premier shoots for the brand.

Vertical Separator CSS3

Was looking around the internet trying to find a vertical separator idea using CSS so you wouldn't have to import another flippin' image to my site that had some inset shadows but had no luck.. So i made one! The example below allows you to have an editable css3 vertical separator that looks as if it is embedded into your nav bar for my instance or where ever you would separate a background or something.  Up to you!  Nothing crazy just thought it was weird I couldn't find it easily.  Start separating your hearts out.

http://codepen.io/zachwaggoner/pen/GKqHh

Skate Posters

So at work lately has been interesting.  We came up with the idea to not do full blown skateparks in areas, but just skate spots that just casually filled up existing parks.  The cool part is that we want to make the parks mores social.  By adding qr codes leading to sites where skaters can talk about the park or "check in" out of town skaters can now get in touch with the town and find where other skate spots are. It is pretty cool and dig the design and layout I made.  *toot toot, anyways check it out.

Responsive Design: Project 1

So while working at my glorious job, I kept getting the President popping in my office telling me, "Hey, the website looks wierd on an iPad." With a full schedule of catalogs to print, brands to manage, translations to translate in the websites themselves, photos to retouch.. well you get the idea. It was hard to see why, after looking at the analytics and noticing that only .83 percent of the users use the iPad, to put effort in my day in customizing it for that platform.  Fear not I pushed aside some time and started a responsive site for one of the brands I manage.  Its scalable from 960px all the way down to basically what ever phone you have.  Not really wanting to deal with " OK it looks good on the Ipad but know my friends "enter device here" looks weird," I decided to just go with responsive design rather than adaptive.  You can see for your self by taking the browser window and adjusting it to any width from as wide as you can go to really narrow the design will fluctuate as you slide.  It was a lot of fun and will enjoy the moments ahead at polishing it up when I get some time, but hey the technology works ! ha

If your lazy and don't want to go to the site I've provided images below that show how it works.

http://www.progressivebikeramps.com