So I had an Idea this morning thanks to a chat that I was in over at arewestillcool, last monday. I went over to there site and participated in there chat, a good time was had by all. They have a little image in there sidebar advertising the next chat on May 19 at 9pm est. I liked it so much that I thought I would grab the image and put it in my sidebar to try and get more people to come join the chat.

Here is what I came up with…

I built a page where you can put in an image URL and a Link URL hit send and bam!!! you get an email with the code you need to put it in your blogs text widget. There is plenty of instruction and a few rules, but have at it.

Click Here TO Check it out

, or you can click on the little ballon with the puzzle piece.

Added Bonus!

While I was building this page I decided to ad an extra feature. There is a section in the form letting you choose to have your code posted publicly so you can share you Image Link with the rest of the world. If you choose ‘Yes’ I’ll grab your code and put it in a textarea box and post it above the form. This way anyone can grab it and put it in there sidebar.

Check it out, tell your friends, but don’t abuse it. Also if you find any glitches let me know. Have fun
randy

I’m Just One Click Away!!!

I think I’m going to go back to the old fashioned style of Surfing the web. The RSS feeds have gotten out of control…

So here we go again. A few new things to look at and some things that are always around. I hope everyone doesn’t mind, but i like to use this place a sort of a testing ground for new ideas that i have. Design, Concepts, Form and Function.

There is a little bit of Visual Updates, I tried to keep things similar and build off what I already have. Most of the Update is in the background. I’ve been working diligently on organizing Functions and incorporating Standard Blogging Tools into my themes With out the need of Plugins.

Have fun and let me know if you find any Mistakes.

So what does this mean? This UpGrade is the content behind the scenes kind. The Visuals here may change very little, but the structure is going to be cleaned up and made ready to handle content in a different way. I have had a few comments and emails about Themes and Wordpress, so, I am developing a page to handle those topics. There are other ideas in the meat grinder about offering WP Plugins & Themes.

If you happen to see a lot of my post being updated through RSS that just means Im cleaning up the Categories and Tags.

I would just like to announce that our Original Poster Boys ‘MercyMe‘ have had another revision of the their ever expanding Blog. This is one of my favorite parts of my job. Also, one of my favorite parts of the way web2.0 and blogging has redefined the way we view the web and its content.

With ever changing content and updates that roll in about every week, it seems like we are always having to find another little space to put a new item. With blogging type content you had better be prepared to add, add and add some more. I mean it when I say, ‘You had better be prepared‘. If you’re not, the next thing you know you’ll have a completely jumbled site with crap all over it. Your viewers wont be able to focus on much and you end up with people that only read the posts. At that point all your extras go to waste.

I think we accomplished most of our Goals with the latest revision of MercyMe. We’ve cleaned up the navigation and simplified it by putting it in a standard horizontal arangment. We took all the extras and condenced them into images that we placed in a single sidebar. There’s no explination need for what they have available, if you cant figure out what you’re clicking on than you may need glasses.

Bart has recently start Twitter, so we brought that in for you to check out. The MercyMe web crew, who is awesome by the way, has had a pretty killer audio player on the Official Website for a while now so we decided to add that for you’re listening pleasure. The Blog Roll seems to have expanded to a double column. (I swear those blog rolls are like rabbits) And finally we added a little section at the bottom for those who are curious about what has been going on in the past or just looking for something specific.

I hope you all enjoy what you see and if you have any suggestions or you just like to say nice things, I’m all ears.

Happy Blogging,

I talked to some people today and there are some good things in the near future.

Im calling my superintendent tomorrow and im giving my early notice. I had set my date for May 9th to be my last day of work, yet this last week seems like it lasted a month. Im making Monday my last day, and im going to start putting all my energy into the blog development.

Im totaly exited and will be grateful for the break from manual labor. One of the nice things is that I saved up all my vacation time over the last year and half so i’ll have a great paycheck to walk away with. Now I’ll be able to spend more time getting back out there and reading more of everyones posts. I think my reader has about 400 unread posts in it right now.

I’ll keep you posted on the latest happenings.

So, apparently Natalie Grant is kinda famous. Perhaps everyone out there new this, but wow!!! I just wanted to say it here, thanks everyone that went and checked it out and commented and told your friends.

I am definitely blessed to be working in the industry at this point in time, doing what i am doing. Projects like these in a community like ours has begun to open a lot of doors for me in the world of the web. It means a lot to me to know that Brody and I have a ton of people out there supporting what were doing.

Thanks!!!

Randy

You really should go and check this out. It’s my latest work. A lot braincells were wasted on this project, but I have to say it’s one of the most well balanced sites and designs of 2008.

I really feel like ive been disconnected from the group lately. Ive been trying to read everyones posts when i get a chance. Most of the time by phone. (with my cool new phone, which i havnt broke yet) It just seems like work has me by the neck at this point. Its nice to be bussy but we all know that there is point where you need a break. Im not there yet, but i might be finding those boundaries right now.

At this point ive got two projects going. One will be out before the end of the week so be checking with brody to see whats coming. Ive also got another project coming out in bit that doesnt have a set date, but i figure it’s getting close.

How’s it going around here in Portland?

Its been rainy and not rainy, cold and warm and things have been good. Spring is starting to show and the weather is starting to shift pretty good. I think we’ll start to see some new leaves here in a few weeks.

There are a lot of big things on there way, and i’ll be quite busy over the next month. I’ll do my best to keep you post on the latest and greatest.

Here is one of the first images i ever did combining photoshop and Illustrator. I think i was using Photoshop 5.5 and Illustrator 7.

I spent so much time on this back then, and it’s still just as silly. I love looking back on some of my old work and just laughing at my self.

The mouse is playing video games through his helmet while on display at some type of weird circus.