I just finished one of the largest undertakings I’ve ever been involved with when it comes to Web design by launching a newly designed KU School of Engineering site.  The project started in the summer of 2009 and involved migrating or at least assisting in migrating every School of Engineering academic—and some research—sites to a new template design given by the University.  This totaled about ten sites that needed to be migrated.

Welcome to the new site.  I hope you like it.  It is now a bit more robust in talking about my work life and I have basically turned it into a long form of my résumé.  I had a very difficult time writing the new content, but the design was an absolute blast.  Hopefully, it will entertain you enough that you won't have noticed my lack of recent blog updates on the old site.

The reason for the redesign was a desire to get off of my old CMS (Drupal), and move onto a Django based site.  It was also a fun opportunity to push some of my front end design and development capabilities like using animation and AJAX based deep linking to create a smoother and faster Web viewing experience.

That is it.  I am done.  30 days of wallpapers is finally over.  There were some good parts, and I think I've gotten a little better at my current project.  Hopefully those of you have visited these have at least somewhat enjoyed this month's daily shots.  Posting these here has certainly helped to keep me honest about doing one each day.  Here is the last walllpaper, Turning Off:

I have always been a fan of rubber ducks.  I have especially liked devil duckies since my sister Sunni introduced them to me by wrapping my Christmas presents in paper with them on it from the greatest store ever, Archie McPhees.  Here is a little ninja devil duckie I drew, Ninja Duck:

I didn't have a whole of creativity sauce in me today so I asked Deena who her favorite original Nintendo character was.  She answered Black Mage from the earlier Final Fantasy games.  With that, here is 2 Bit:

What a day.  Here is What I Know:

I had an absolutely wonderful time at the Omaha Zoo yesterday on my first "road trip of the month" with Deena.  We are trying to explore our neck of the woods with the hope to find places we can really enjoy out here.  Yesterday was a huge success, and hopefully she will post a photo album and some videos on her site.

With that in mind, I was a bit inspired to try to draw one of the many creatures we saw there.  So here is an extremely realistic line drawing of an owl.  Here is How Many Licks:

I ended up drawing an atom for work earlier this week as an icon.  I really liked the simplicity of it, and since I'm going to spend most of the day on the road to and from Omaha I needed something quick and easy.  Here is Madam I'm Atom:

I've always been a fan of Danny Elfman (after Oingo Boingo), and The Nightmare Before Christmas is one my favorite movies.  Since Halloween, and more importantly a month of not making wallpapers every day is coming up, today's entry is my little homage to that movie.  It was a treat to draw.  Here is Halloween in September:

Today's entry was a real treat to do.  I fancy myself a bit of a math nerd, and have wanted to do a math related wallpaper.  At first I thought pi, but that gets way too much "press", so I decided to go with e.  That magical number that makes d/dx e^x = e^x, and thanks to a bunch of happy drawing accidents it turned out really quite well.  Here is e-riffic: