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May 20, 2011 

Pattern & Craft


I don’t know him personally, but Jace from over at Pattern & Craft is doing a wonderful thing for his Mother. He’s basically making this website from the ground up, gathering followers and then planning to hand it off to her so she (and the Red Cross support effort for Japan) can make some much deserved money. Here’s the description of the site in his own words:

A few weeks ago I was in a craft store with my Fiancée and she was dismayed at the selection of cross-stitch patterns. Being bored and highly caffeinated, I proposed creating a cross-stitch pattern creator and marketplace where people could create and sell their patterns. She thought the idea was crazy (as 99% of my ideas are) as I already have too many things on my plate and the conversation and the idea were dropped.

I’m looking forward to when the site goes live so I can check everything out. If any of you can get out the word, he could use some more press on the whole matter. You can help out by going to the Press Kit page.

If you decide to help out, let me know below so we can spread the word together! Here’s to hoping the site starts off with a bang!

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February 24, 2011 

Suddenly, Artisans All Over!


There’s a new Marketplace in town strictly for the Artisan in all of us (well, shoppers too). If you have any kind of creative gene in your body, I suggest you hop on over to the Three Sisters’ Marketplace, a new site that I’ve just built and check it out. If you want any of the technical information, check out my portfolio entry for it.

Basically, it’s an upscale site for better than average Artisans to sell their goods and network with one another. They start by creating a shop and then fill it with their creations/products. They can even add events if they want. After all of the items are created and finalized, the Artisan submits their shop to the Jury. The Jury consists of hand picked Artisans and the Owner who then either accept or deny the shop.

Once the shop is accepted, it shows up in the site and the sales start rolling in (hopefully)! Other Artisans and Shoppers can then rate, fan and review the shop. I’m really, really proud with the way this site turned out and I hope you enjoy checking it out. If you have any suggestions or comments, let me know!

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January 27, 2011 

What’s With The Lack Of Updates?

Yeah — sorry about that. Things have been pretty crazy around here lately. I’m not complaining though, I’ve been working on two rather large projects and having an excellent time doing so.

When I get a bit more time, I’ll put some information about them up here. If all goes well, one of them should be going live on Monday. Once it does, it’ll be the largest site that I’ve ever built from the ground up. So large in fact, that I had to work with a contractor for the last 8 months to get everything up to this point.

Here’s something to pique your interest in the meantime; I’ve just developed a new website for the folks over at Digital Embyro. Feel free to take a look at the portfolio entry for it. It’s a completely custom WordPress 3 install. First time I used child themes, too (awesome, by the way).

Anyway, stay tuned for my next update — I promise you’ll like it!

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October 26, 2010 

WordCamp Philly, Here I Come!

WordCamp Philly is coming up faster than I thought it would — it’s right around the corner now. I’m all registered and can’t wait to fill my head with all of that delicious WordPress information. I’m also really looking forward to all of the speakers this year including my friends Sean Blanda (one of the three co-founders of Techically Philly) and Reed Gustow. Are you going?

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September 22, 2010 

Movember Madness!

Movember LogoCancer among men is far more serious than I originally thought. Apparently 1 in 2 men will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetime. That  gives me a 50% chance of being at risk. Since I can’t do anything about that, the least I can do is try to raise some money that will be used to help with research.

The company I work for, Yikes, Inc, has created a Movember Team that I’m a part of called, “Yikes! Nice Stache“. We’re going to see how much money we can raise for cancer research by growing some sweet mustaches.

As of right now, we’ve raised a total of $15. If anyone could donate, I’d really appreciate it. Even just helping me spread the word about my team would be fantastic. I know it seems kind of silly to grow a mustache to increase cancer awareness, but it’s really for a good cause.

The money raised as a result of Movember is channeled by their beneficiary partners into a number of world class and innovative research, support, education, and awareness initiatives. Movember funds raised in the US benefit the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG.

Make a Donation

If you have any words of encouragement, suggestions on what kind of of mustache I should grow or anything else to say — feel free to leave it in the comments!

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