Category: Web Design

  • Dead River Derby Rolls On

    Dead River Derby Rolls On

    Dead River Derby is Marquette Michigan’s new roller derby league. If you don’t know already, roller derby is an aggressive, full contact race between two teams of women. Established in 2012, Marquette’s league has been busy promoting the sport. Now with an official logo and website to help solidify their image, Dead River Derby is…

  • Earthkeepers II promote energy conservation

    Earthkeepers II promote energy conservation

    Earthkeepers II is an environmental initiative of the interfaith community in northern Michigan that now has a professional logo and website. I recently had the honor of designing their identity and giving them an official home on the web. Earthkeepers II consists of ten faith traditions involving 250 faith communities in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. They…

  • Che Bello Boutique expands business with online shop

    Che Bello Boutique expands business with online shop

    Che Bello Boutique is a locally owned men & women’s clothing boutique located in beautiful downtown Marquette, Michigan. The boutique carries a variety of new trendy affordable junior, women and men’s clothing, as well as accessories. To reach a broader market with an online shop, Che Bello recently had an e-commerce website designed and developed…

  • Papa Crow Redesign

    Papa Crow Redesign

    Papa Crow, a.k.a. Jeff Krebs, hails from the beautiful south shore of Lake Superior. He crafts thoughtful and fun music for kids and families. After starting his own family, he dove headfirst into children’s music and decided to make his own album. In 2011, “Things That Roar” was released. This was his debut album of…

  • HTML5 LocalStorage

    What is HTML5 LocalStorage? HTML5 localStorage is a handy API that gives web developers access to 5MB store on a users local machine with no expiration date. Sure, there are other ways to store data client-side, but localStorage differs from cookies or sessionStorage in that localStorage is still there even after the browser is closed.…

  • Responsive Web Development: Real World Applications

    I came across an educational article at Smashing Magazine today that I’d like to share. It’s called “A Foot On The Bottom Rung: First Forays Into Responsive Web Development.” It was written by Gavyn McKenzie, a front-end web developer from the UK. I’ve been designing and developing responsively (and responsibly) for a while now, and…

  • Aaron Kippola shares his musical endeavors

    Aaron Kippola is a multi-talented musician who is known for his saxophone, guitar, drums, and more. He is currently working on several self-produced albums on which he sings and plays most of the instruments. Several years ago, I designed a logo for him and began work on his Album Covers. I also created a simple…

  • Responsive Web Design

    How to make your site awesome on any device, on any platform. Mobile is Growing Fast Responsive Web Design is the future. The World Wide Web is expanding. It’s not just available from your desktop anymore. The web can now be accessed from many devices such as Televisions, Telephones, Tablets, etc. More people are able…

  • Custom Guitar Pickups by Instrumental, LLC

    Instrumental is a small, high end electro-magnetic transducer company that designs and manufactures custom transducers for small guitar companies. In other words, Instrumental makes guitar pickups! This is the first client site to utilize (a slightly modified version of) my new WordPress Theme MEM Core.

  • Tai Chi Healing Music is a great way to relax

    Tai Chi Healing Music is a great way to relax

    It’s been ten years since I began this project. I guess it’s time to start promoting it. Tai Chi Chuan is an internal Chinese martial art that helps develop agility, balance, relaxation, and much more. As a musician, I wanted to find a way to combine my passion for music with the healing power of…

  • Free WordPress Theme “MEM Core” released

    Word­Press is a pop­u­lar, open-source, Con­tent Man­age­ment Sys­tem built by hun­dreds of com­mu­nity vol­un­teers around the world. Although, I’ve been devel­op­ing Word­Press Themes for years, I finally got around to releas­ing my first free WordPress Theme for pub­lic use. I call it MEM Core which is short for “Middle Ear Media Core” because I plan…