"Readying" the 2008 BlueCat Screenplay Website

Always busy reading scripts, putting on screenplay labs from Los Angeles to New York, and keeping in touch with their students, previous winners, and countless industry connections, Gordy and Heather wanted to more clearly define the site's purpose and refine it a bit more. So... on the home page, we introduced left and right columns, changed a black Trebuchet MS to a dark grey Arial font.

This year, the screenplay submission process requires a username and password for better tracking, as this competition continues to grow every year. After all, first place winner gets $10,000! And... early entrants pay a lower entry fee -- so finish your script early! Check out bluecatscreenplay.com to see what we have been working on!

Until next time,
David

HUGE Discounts on Scrapbooking Supplies

My friend Jamie & I have a TON of scrappin supplies from previous direct sales businesses we have been involved with. It is currently taking up one of Jamie's bedrooms and we desperately need to get some of it out of there! For the last week, she has been a crazy women entering all this inventory into an online shopping cart!

I'm happy to announce our brand new online store is now open for business with ALL items on sale up to 75% off!!!

Disclaimers:
--Although we haven't completed the 'policies' and other mumbo jumbo stuff related to an online store, we are opening anyways!
--While you are browsing, you may notice duplicate entries for items. This is because there are 2 of us selling many of the same items. Select either option to add the item to your cart.
--While I have done everything in my power to ensure the quantities of our inventory, there may be a few miscalculations. If something you purchased is not in stock, we will contact you. You can either select a different item or receive a full refund on the item.
--International Customers: Correct shipping will not be charged at the time of checkout. Once I pull your order, I will weigh the items & you will be invoiced for the remainder of the shipping charges via PayPal.
--More product will be added, however, this is 99% of it!
--Extra surprise goodies in every order!
--At this time, we are only accepting payments through PayPal.
--All Sales are Final.

*****Free Shipping on the first 10 orders over $50!! (USA Only - International orders will receive $5 off shipping charges.)*****

LETS GO SHOPPING!

Secret Site Project

I wanted to say that I having been helping out with a close friend a web niche site only good for certain people in a certain industry! I could say more, but I do not want to until the site is done, and then when it is done and you see it, you will know why I did not tell you earlier, if at all -- since this a very niche site for a very specific group of people...

How's that for news? I imagine that you do not feel much better off now that you read this, except for this one thing...

I am about to start an interesting blog this week, that will be of interest to those of you who have enjoyed my piano playing in church. Stay tuned!

Now was that worth it? Feel free to comment, if you must... :)

K-joi Studios

Kara at http://kjoistudios.com came to me in hopes that I could help her with some editing and integration problems that she had with her website.

Here are the things we did for Kara so that she could have her Grand Opening on time:

●Integrated her SMF Forum and Coppermine Gallery together so that users only had to login with one username and password.
●Install a Chat Room into her Forum
●Install modifications into her SMF Forum for more functionality
●Added a banner ad software so she could keep better track of them
●Modified and added colors to the current templates in her forum and gallery
●Added more buttons to her navigation bar and installed in as an include in her forum and gallery

UPDATE! We moved her entire site to our servers also!

TLC Banners

Here is a special treat for my special friends at TLC. A couple of animated banners worth $50 each for your uses if you are a Top Line Creations consultant. ENJOY!

You will need to right click these and save them to your own computer. Please do not link to them here. If you need hosting space for banners check out our hosting packages on our Services link.

Evansville Crop for the Cure

The past few days I have been working on a great website. Evansville Crop for the Cure is a website that is devoted to raising money for the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. I designed and developed this site.

Check it out!

What we did for Amanda:

• Designed the whole site and logo
• Added all the links and wording onto every page
• Installed a photo gallery
• Configured email address
• Continued website edits yearly
  

Adding a topper logo..

OK, so I made the splash page logo smaller to input into Michele's inner pages, but it didn't look right. I made a new "topper" logo just for the inside pages. She really love how it turned out and I enjoyed making it look how it needed to look. I don't like to compromise my work! Here is the topper logo for http://www.timelessinspirations.com

Timeless Inspirations

OK, well I just finished another project and I can move on to the next. We have been backed up with web jobs right now, which is good! My latest design will be plugged into http://www.timelessinspirations.com today! Michele wanted to get some updated graphics for her website that were more "scrappy" looking. Here is what I came up with from the colors she wanted me to use for the splash page logo.

This logo took me longer than usual because of all the things going on in the last month... me going to Australia, my parents being here, and Easter break. It was kind of good though because it gave me time to really think about what I wanted to do. I found myself dreaming and waking up with what I wanted it to look like. This was pretty much it but my dream was to do a clucter of prima flowers in that left hand corner... I like it much better with flourishes and the primas in smaller sizes attached to different ends of the flourishes. I did use vintage photos for the origional but Michele wanted to use some of her family which was totally ok with me. To the left is the origiona, click it to see it better...

Special thanks to http://www.nitwitcollections.com for letting me use the swirly paper for this logo! Thanks Mary Fran!

What has been taking up our time?

Well we have been super busy with a few websites right now.

MyScrapbooking Instructor is one that is really taking up a lot of my time. Along with the initial website, there are also websites within that one with different templates that scrapbooking consultants and instructors can order and have featured on the site. They are amazing and so fun.

I am backed up with orders right now! Get your order in and get closer to the front of the line sooner!

What's New Today!

Today I started work on a really fun website called The Juicy Tomato. Jennifer Stratton has been a client of ours for almost five years now. We have done a handful websites for her including the Scrapbook Chef and Creativity Educators. I am very excited to be working on a new website with her and am interested to see what direction she would like us to take it in!

Current Projects - if you're interested!

BlueCatScreenplay.com - for anyone who is a screenwriter that wants a chance to win a $10,000 prize for their script, check this one out. We just set up an online database for the wonderful people over at the Blue Cat Screenplay Competition to handle the entries and now they can have their lunch hour back! Entries are due March 1, 2007.



Califormance.com - still under the hood on several elements on this site, but for anyone who likes news and reviews on cars of their ...type -- sport compacts, luxury, hot rods, low riders, trucks &SUVs or motorcycles -- check this one out! There is also an upcoming auto show section being built out right now.


eKreations.com - there will be some changes including rates for the sites we will be doing. Since we are going to the "next level" in our husband-wife website design and hosting biz, we'll be making ourselves known to a few locals in Dallas, TX and some friends back from SoCal...

Stay tuned for more!

eKreations is BACK!

Hello!

eKreations is now back up and running! After a much needed break, my husband and I are back to what we love to do, kreating websites for you! I will be posting website tips here as well as any updates on projects we are working on. Thanks for your support as always!

"Kreative Karma"