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It’s A New Year

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Hello Everyone,

I would first like to apologize for not updating my site in a while. I’ve been extremely busy with the holidays and work and I just haven’t had the time! I finally finished my undergraduate program at Western Michigan University and I am now the proud owner of a BBA in Electronic Business Design! It feels incredible to be graduated from college and to be a part of the professional work force.

Speaking of which, I have been busy developing a website for the company where I am interning, Landscape Forms. This website is going to be the home for our new electronic auction system. Currently these auctions are all done via paper and pencil, and my job is to give them a more eBay like feel. I have been developing this website using ASP.NET and SQL Server, and it has been exciting learning new interactions between things such as ASP.NET and jQuery along the way. I would love to show you this website, but it is internal only. Sorry!

I hope that everyone reading this had a wonderful holiday season, and I’d like to remind you that Fro Designs is always happy to answer your web design and development needs. Enjoy the new year!

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Happy Thanksgiving

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

I just wanted to take a moment to say Happy Thanksgiving to all of my readers and visitors. I hope you had a wonderful holiday!

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October Activity

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

I haven’t had time to write a nice article in a while, so I wanted to throw something out here to let everyone know how business is doing. First of all, I finished up a large e-commerce project at the beginning of the month for The String Collector. I enjoy rock and roll music and have a bass guitar, so this was a fun project for me to work on. The website can be seen in my portfolio, and you can read about it here: The String Collector

I am currently working on a web store for a band called The Vala. One of the members is a personal friend of mine, and he came to me for help with this project. The design was largely done by him, with input from myself along the way. The test website is still in its initial stages of setup, so you’ll have to wait a bit to see more from this one. This website will be using WordPress and WP e-Commerce just like the store that I put together for The String Collector.

On a different note, I’m about halfway into the school semester, my last semester at WMU, and I can’t wait to be done! It’s exciting to finally be graduating and truly moving into the work force. I know my web design and development skills will continue to expand, and I will use everything I have to help my customers create successful websites.

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Client: Allen’s Photography

Monday, September 14th, 2009

A co-worker of mine at Landscape Forms was looking for some help updating his photography website. When I first looked at the website, I noticed that the entire thing was written with static HTML pages. This type of site is very hard for any non-technical user to update. So I offered to help him migrate his website to WordPress, where it would be much easier to update and manage.

The whole process went really smoothly. I was able to install WordPress on his web host with no problems, configure all of the necessary plug-ins, and apply the theme from his HTML website without any trouble. He is very happy with the new features, and I hope that the work I have done for him makes his job easier, and helps to bring in new business to his company.

Link: http://www.allensphotography.net

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Back to Work

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Now that I have moved in to my new apartment, I am back to working on web design projects. I recently finished the first draft of a design mockup for an eCommerce guitar website for a shop based in Battle Creek, MI. I have not heard back from the owner yet, but I’m confident that he will like the direction I have taken with the design. Once the design is exactly how he wants it, I can begin the implementation process on top of WordPress and the WP-eComerce plugin. I’m excited, because I think this will turn out to be a very nice web store in the end. I am also currently working on transferring a co-worker’s photography website to a WordPress install. I think that he will benefit greatly from the migration.

As always, Fro Designs is giving out free quotes for web design and development work. If you have any questions relating to the web, we are happy to try and answer them for you. Designing web sites is a great passion of mine, and I’m happy to share my skills with business and people whether they are located in the Kalamazoo area, or anywhere else in the United States or even the world.

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