A little creative concept of mine, the goal being with the least amount of personal effort have something funny be introduced to many people through social networking sites and services.
I’ve started a new personal project, MMOStrats.com
This one has been in the pipeline for a while now, and it still needs a lot of content, but it’s more or less a concept example of a content heavy (eventually) directory site with minimal development time. The site so far, as of writing, has only taken around 12 hours to produce, and it set up to allow the administrator to give responsibilities to moderators who will also post content. It’s also got advertising spaces for monetisation, and public commenting systems.
It’s not the prettiest thing in the world, but one of the goals was to make it on a $0 budget (not counting domains and hosting), and I’m not much of a graphic designer!
This weekend I did a re-skin of CamberwellArt.com – it’s almost a brand new site!
I graduated last year with my Degree in IT from QUT. I’m now studying for a Bachelor of Business (Marketing & Management majors) through Monash (via OUA).
Recently Launched:
Finished and launched another new site, for a product called Limpetite
Erica Schmerbeck helped me put a new face on LaptopMod.com last week, and I’ve also rebuilt Ausgeek.com ready for a new look to come in the future. I have high hopes for these sites as I think the concepts are solid, but we’ll see if they actually do anything.
LaptopMod is showing more potential than any other sites in my portfolio, though I think a lot of the registrations so far are spambots. That can be a good thing though, as it means there’s something there they think is relatively valuable or ranking well for a term they see value in. Good stuff.
Chaos Tamed was recently contracted again by Tasman Engineering up in Gladstone to work on new functionality for their online store. The Firewheel store previously built was done in around 2004 so it was time for a change. The graphic design didn’t change much but that was the only thing that stayed even close to what it used to be, with a complete overhaul of the shop logic (to cater for multiple products, discounting logic, shipping logic) in the works.
Now, out the other end, I’m very happy with the results. The store is smarter than most online stores in that it will actually calculate your shipping costs before you even get to the checkout, and it will do it in a way to get you the best price. The product prices are dynamic, showing you exactly how much more you will have to pay to get an item to you, instead of just an arbitrary number with hidden extra shipping costs.
Have a look at the NEW store here; www.firewheel.com.au
