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Adding an iPhone Web Clip Icon to your Website

By default, when an iPhone user saves a webclip to the springboard, a screenshot of the current web page is used as the icon. However, you can create your own custom icons yo replace the standard graphics.

This tutorial should take about 5 minutes to complete

Gladiator Games 2008

Earlier this summer I assisted the Knoxville Leadership Foundation in planning the social media component for one of their annual fundraising events, the Gladiator Games. Working with Zane Hagy from Z11 Communications, we developed a plan including the use of social media sites such as Flickr, Jing, and YouTube to help get the word out [...]

FinestraPhoto New Site Design

It’s ironic that I spend a good portion of each day working on web pages and couldn’t find the time to update my own photography site, FinestraPhoto. We finally bit the bullet back in January and started working on our gallery system and blog theme. After finishing those projects, we used the same graphics, colors, [...]

FinestraPhoto Blog

I created a Wordpress theme for the blog portion of the FinestraPhoto website. The sidebar shows recent Twitter posts as well as thumbnails of recently uploaded pictures to the the company’s Flickr site.

FinestraPhoto Gallery

When my wife and I decided to rebuild the website of our photography company, FinestraPhoto, one of our most important requirements was integrating a photo gallery to manage online proofing and ordering for us. We have used various 3rd party systems in the past, but could never find one that allowed the level of customization [...]

UTFCU Student Site

In the Fall of 07, my credit union began a marketing campaign directed specifically at students entering into their Freshman year at the university. The campaign included a scavenger hunt, radio remotes, drawings for special prizes (including iPods and iPhones), and iTunes gift cards for anyone opening a new student checking account. I created a [...]

Graphics for Department of Social Work (ETSU)

I created these conference displays using Adobe Photoshop.
I worked with Dr. Robin Lennon-Dearing to convert existing presentation materials into this display for a national conference.

I worked with Dr. David Cecil to create the three-panel display used for conferences and at recruiting events.