Archive for October, 2008

I got my first taste of what the financial crisis may be doing to my company today. For the first time in the last few years, I actually got scared looking at my checking account. Don’t get me wrong, I still have clients coming to me, I just have less new work then I’m use to. Seems as if anyone who needs a design piece done is either doing it themselves, or not getting it done at all. Not good for the little guy. I’m hoping that the economy will pick up real soon. I just put out a new advertisement in my church’s bulletin, which will be viewable every Sunday for the whole year. This will be the first time I have ever purposely advertised my company. In the past I have gotten all of my clients though word of mouth or via the web. If this new advertisement works, I could have a few more jobs and potentially permanent clients. Let’s all hope that it does work.

I don’t know why it took me so long to find Wordpress. I decided to check it out last night as I was bored out of my mind and had nothing to do. Thanks to Wordpress, I stayed up till 1:00am tweaking my blog site, searching for themes and customizing my code. But it was all well worth it. When it comes to “customizing” sites via HTML and coding, that’s when I feel like I got the most out of my seriously crappy web minor in college. I’m hoping to go back to college one day to learn web design once again. I know that I have the mindset and patience to code, I was just taught really badly on how to do it. For the time being, me designing my client’s sites in Photoshop and then having my colleagues code them is just peachy keen with me. Saves me a headache, and it allows me watch how others code so that I can learn too. Well, it’s off to dinner for me.

cheers!

Welcome to my portfolio! Below are a few of my favorite works that I have done in the past. If you want to see more, then please visit my company’s website at: www.creativedolan.com. There you can view oodles of work that I have done for clients, as well as some boring corporate info about my company.