I just put a newly-designed site live for Missouri Foot & Ankle Clinics:

I recently redesigned author Susan Wiggs' website:

I finished up a new website today for my friend Kelly Lampton: kbellboutique.com

A site that I designed for The Ahearn Agency just went live:

I just heard that the Phantom Stallion site won a Silver Addy from the Advertising Association of Northern Nevada.

Gosh, I haven't posted anything here in forever, have I?

It's not that I haven't been doing anything, but I guess I've been doing mostly maintenance on existing sites, and not a lot of new site designs. Well, here's a new site that just went live today. Terri Farley writes The Phantom Stallion series of books for young adults, and wanted a new site that would be fun to explore:

Oh, I'll tell you what -- I totally agree with this! We got rid of the ubiquitous "blink" tag, but then Flash came out, and it seems like every ad or banner now has to be animated, flashing, blinking . . . I don't have anything at all against Flash, but when I visit a site--especially something like a news or newspaper site--and am trying to read something, having eight different animated things on a page all competing for my attention drives me crazy.

I find myself trying to make the browser window smaller, or scrolling down just enough that I don't see the distracting animations. I don't even look at them, so unless they're subliminally influencing me, they're not getting my eyeballs.

Programmer Challenge: Stop the Blinking Ads - Pogue%u2019s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog

I just put a new client site live last weekend:

It's simple, but I think it's effective. Jennifer -- a jewelry artist -- wanted a simple ecommerce site where she could display her jewelry and sell it through Paypal without going through the process of being able to take credit cards directly. She had a couple of shows coming up at the end of the month and needed something up quickly so that she could put the URL on her business cards to hand out at the shows. I think it turned out nicely.