Promo Video for Storm Spectator

Watch the promo video I put together for Storm Spectator, via the site’s nifty embeddable video player. Obviously, I did not take these photos. I just edited it all together.

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Bed & Breakfast Browser 2.0

We totally redeveloped Bed & Breakfast Browser. The site that had been online since 2006 was “temporary”. This new version uses our custom CMS which lets users submit and manage content such as B&B listings, photos and reviews. Unlike other big B&B directories, this one is free for innkeepers, because we want every bed and breakfast, everywhere, to create and maintain hugely detailed listings. And on the visitor end, we want to build a huge database of uncensored reviews and user-uploaded photos.

Please give the site a browse and tell me if you find any bugs.

Thank you Sudi-Pie for encouraging me with this forever, for the writing and design insight.

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BestSitesNow.com

BestSitesNow.com is our latest DreamDolphin Media site. Basically what it does is return a list of the most popular sites for a specific topic. No useless forum/newsgroup posts or single blog articles like you get from search engines, just complete, quality sites on the topic. It also generates tag clouds of related topics. Try: Organic Gardening, Shopping, Basketball. You can read more about why we made this and how it works on the About page.

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Introducing Vegan Diet Center

We are pleased to announce DreamDolphin Media’s latest site: Vegan Diet Center. It contains vegan articles, recipes, restaurants, books and links. Sudi wrote the content and came up with the color scheme and logo. I did the design and put the whole site together using our new custom CMS (content management system).

This CMS is a joint project between myself and Mr. Dawson of Ei42 fame in the UK. It’s quite top-secret (“hilarious, my friend”), but basically it will let us make database-driven sites of Vegan Diet Center’s quality with zero programming. In other words, really quickly. Future sites will allow for more user interaction such as making comments and writing reviews.

Please give Vegan Diet Center a look and let us know what you think (bugs, typos, etc. appreciated). Don’t mind the vegan restaurants section too much as there are only two at the moment. We’ll be adding 50 restaurants to the site shortly.

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You Learn Something New Every Day

Today I learned that in North Texas you can edge your lawn during Spring at 9 PM because it’s still bright out. I also learned that battery powered edgers work! Since I don’t have a cordless electric blower yet I’m going to see if the wind blows the clippings away overnight. There’s pretty much been a constant stream of 20 MPH wind all Spring. Eat your heart out Chicago.

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Introducing MyPersonality.info

Our latest site is called MyPersonality.info. I coded and designed it while SudiRoo did most of the content and test questions. This site offers:

• Three Tests: Personality, Multiple Intelligences, Spiritual Gifts
• Information about each personality type, intelligence, gift, etc.
• Badges – lets you create a graphic with your test results for your blog, web site, signatures, etc.
• Profile Pages – a subdomain for every test taker that allows them to share their results in full

Here’s what a badge looks like. You get to choose the size, tests/order, colors, font, picture, etc. Click it to view my profile page.

Please, if you will, give the site a try and let me know of any issues.

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Sudi on Christian Examiner Cover

I picked up a copy of the Christian Examiner newspaper at church… and Sudi is on the cover!

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Bed & Breakfast Browser

Bed & Breakfast Browser is a new site I just finished. It’s a directory of bed & breakfast inns across the US and Canada. It has about 9,000 B&B’s and 18,000 photos for launch. WikiTravel tidbits and integrated Google Maps (API) supplement the accommodation details. The site is fairly basic in it’s current form (I want to build some rank in the search engines while I develop). The ultimate goal is to provide the most decked out B&B directory online. There are about 50 other B&B directories, most of which charge $50 – $500 per year for listings. The idea here (when done) will be to provide 100% FREE listings for innkeepers. Instead of charging for “top spots” in the results, I’ll list the “biggest” listings first. This will encourage the innkeepers to provide more info and photos for the travelers, making our site bigger and more useful than other sites. And that, being that this is a free / context ad-supported site, is how we’ll bring home the bacon.

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Dad’s Retirement

Dad retired from 41 years of work at BF Goodrich today! We went to a party at his work then went out for lunch. It was a lot of fun. It was good to see how much his coworkers respect him and how much they learned from him over the years. We had cake, Dad gave a great speech, and they all cheered as Dad drove us out in a little golf cart.

It makes me very happy that Dad is now retired. He worked very long and very hard. Through his work he provided our family with everything we needed and more. I know that I enjoy the job I do now with computers from the comfort of my home because of my Dad’s hard work. Dad introduced Dan and I to the world of computers.

Enjoy the retired life, Dad. Enjoy “long lunches” and great travels!

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A Job in the UK

Starting next week I’m going semi-full-time for Swift Solutions Ltd in Coventry, United Kingdom. Swift provides IT support, web hosting and web design services. I’ll be heading up what Steve (owner) sometimes calls his “San Diego Offices.” In other words, I’ll be doing web development for him three days a week (reserving two for my DreamDolphin Media stuff) from home sweet home. A portion of the work involves developing sites for local business while the bulk of it is for ‘Swift Solutions Group’ projects such as the CitySitesUK Network.

We’ve been working together for a couple years. He’s had so much work for me lately that the next step obviously was to make this more of a permanent arrangement. I’m glad to be doing this work. It’s fun and Steve is a cool guy.

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