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.

Log Cabin Senior Project

Log Cabin has been coming along quite well... I've created a t-shirt design, a website incorporating a social media site within LogCabin called "CampFire" where all Log Cabin's community can come together create forums, and talk amongst each other creating connections and "talking shop" about either tutorials the site provides or what is happening in design/web at the time.  It's been fun and wish I could put every second of my day into it, but with life, school, and work, Log Cabin ends up getting about 40 percent of my time.  Not bad but I see where extra time is needed.  All good though I really am liking the look and feel of it.  This is where I am with "2 months" aka 50 hours into the machine.  Probably have another 30 hours to go.  In the real world that is a mere 2 week project :) haha

Here it is pretty rough still but will update when I finish.  Enjoy my little hackers ;)

rough T-shirt Design

Home Page

Contact ...DUH ha

Video/tutorial Aspect of site...Description and real videos will be added and categorized later

Register page for Camp Fire

Generic Text template for things like About page.

What you see when you're logged into Log Cabin's Camp Fire :)

There. Its live but not near ready to go.  

COMING THIS MAY TO A VIRTUAL TREE NEAR YOU.

Log Cabin: Tutorials annnnddd GO!

Decisions, decisions...I am finally starting my senior project which will conclude my degree in May! I'll be almost 24 years young and ready to get the heck outta school.  But in the mean time I have this  tutorial based website to bust out.  What to start with though is the hardest thing for me.  My check list starts with some easy HTML and CSS tutorials to place on there, then to Javascript, HTML5 animations, jquery, mobile responsive design, and a wordpress plug-in that will just be a gallery of some sort...I have three months to slam this together but have no worries since I'm only taking around 12 credit hours and don't have a car for distraction...my only poison is Facebook and this blog but I think I might be able to manage oh and music of course....www.thewolfandthewolverine.com {sad self promotion}. while I'm at it...mmm Dr. Pepper is the best, and don't forget Sour Patch Kids...do I get paid for endorsement for this? anyways.... I want to create a Javascript Calculator and am searching through the webs trying to find a decent tutorial to get this done...I want it to be good looking to, like digital looking or something.  I have a long road and a lot of ambitious ideas with the time as my devil and procrastination as his advocate.  I got a decent idea on the logo and sections but I think the logo may be a bit "kiddish" since this is the first time that I have created a type by hand and scanned in... basically my drawing skills compare to my reading level somewhere around 5 and 6th grade depending if it involves dinosaurs or space.  I contacted Teamtreehouse.com today to get my super dooper discount for being a student...a whopping 9 dollars compared to the 50 to go through their site and learn web stuff...so yes I am taking tutorials to put tutorials on my site but one must learn some how.  Definitely check them out though if you're interested in web stuff and have a nack...knack? for learning on your own with videos and such.  www.teamtreehouse.com You get badges for completing tasks and after signing up I saw some thing about how if you finish sections you get placed in a pool to be hired by great web-based companies like Facebook, google and a bunch of other start up companies. WOOT!

Tomorrow is going to be a CSS kinda day I think.

By the way Joplin ADDY's are coming up here in 2 weeks. #stoked.

It says to dress in the period, not sure what that means but I'm sure my suspenders and top hat will be just fine.

Log Cabin

Coming soon to a fictional place near you.