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.

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.

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.

Anyways, my name is Ian Pinter and I have recently become a freelance developer. I have been doing basically freelance work for the past year and a half, but with several friends at the same company. So doing this on my own is new and different.

My professional development career started off doing C# development. I worked at Microsoft for a bit and started out using ASP.NET/C# there, but then got re-org’ed into the Live Search team, where they use C++. That was a bit of a change, but I got to work with some cool people, and on some neat new framework code. For the last year a and half at Skull Squadron, I have been doing all sorts of web projects, most in C#. But I did learn Flash/Actionscript and have been quite enjoying that. I hope to continue doing more Flash projects in the future, and have several possibilities at the moment.

However, I am currently trying to take it easy and not really look for work. Although some work has found me, which I don’t mind. Anyways, I’ll try and update this a couple times a week and hopefully somebody will find something interesting or of use.

 - Ian