Just built a simple site for showcasing my sisters art. She is attending Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland Oregon and currently on a trip to study in Parma Italy. I think she has some really amazing pieces displayed on the site, but there is even more to be scanned and uploaded later.

The site itself is just a single page using jQuery to update the content. I could have used a fully featured CMS, but for a project of this size it didn’t make sense. The biggest thing was creating a site quickly and make it simple to tweak the design. While doing updates is not lightning fast and does require some technical knowledge, it takes a lot less time than setting up a CMS with way more features than are needed. It is the second site I have designed, and while I am not a professional designer, I think I can create something that is simple but still has some stylish elements. Plus it is fun to design something from the ground up, even if I don’t create the best looking site ever.

I have been pretty busy with work for the past couple months. Been working on a site for a local performing arts group, and the site already has some press coverage and it’s not going to launch for a while. It will be a neat site once it is all finished, defiantly a project I am proud to be a part of. I’ll be posting a link up once it goes live.

You might be able to notice (if you’ve ever been to the site before) that I actually did some styling on this site. Not that it’s going to blow you away with its awesomeness, but it’s something besides the default theme and I think it looks pretty good. But it’s a good thing people don’t pay me to design their sites, it’s much easier to build them.

I apparently suck at blogging. I haven’t posted in almost two months, that’s not going to keep anyone coming back to see whats new. Oh well, guess I’ll give a quick update of whats new in the Pinter Industries world. Not a whole lot actually, like no new site design, although I have sketched out some ideas.

The big Flash CMS project I worked a bunch on still hasn’t gone live. Not sure what they are waiting for since they haven’t asked for any updates recently. At least I’m finally getting paid for that project. Got a cool video portfolio site project for a friend that I’ll be starting, and hopefully finishing, this week. It will kind of be a portfolio item for me as well, since it should be a pretty neat Flash site.

The big project at the moment is something I’m working on with Heavy Robotic Chris. We are restarting a project we had built a year and a half ago and taking it to the next level of functionality. We both think it’s a great idea, something that we will both use, and hopefully people will use it this time around too. I’ve been writing quite a bit of JavaScript and PHP that writes out JavaScript, so it’s been a good learning experience. I’ll have much more to say about that project once it launches. Not that I think anyone would steal our idea and build it before we finish, especially since Amazon already did that.