http://www.micekdesign.com Freelance Web Design and Graphic Design Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:23:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About a month ago, I took on a project that has now fallen through due to a lack of communication and payment. Rather than throw away two perfectly good website designs, I've decided to revise them to be used as free wordpress themes! Here are the designs as they were intended ... http://www.micekdesign.com/upcoming-theme-designs Larger Version Project Details When a guest calls any of the Signature Forum websites, that guest is connected to a liaison who will hold the guest's hand through the rest of the appointment process. The tool helping the liaison mange guests is the sales interface. The sales interface has to present many ... http://www.micekdesign.com/sales-interface Click here for a large version Project Details Sensory Awareness is a practice in which we can rediscover our natural balance, self-confidence and oneness with ourselves and others. The sensory awareness foundation is dedicated to preserving and spreading sensory awareness. I was hired by another designer to create a secondary design option for ... http://www.micekdesign.com/sensory-awareness-site-design After designing another web company's website, I've noticed that my own website is lacking a section that describes the work I do. There are several goals I hope to achieve by describing exactly what kind of work I do and why people should contact me. Search Engine Optimization While I believe ... http://www.micekdesign.com/service-offerings-described Project Details After designing the website for my local chapter of Delta Lambda Phi while I was still in school, the national fraternity asked me to create designs for every chapter in the country. Instead of creating 30 separate web sites, I decided to push the use of wordpress as a ... http://www.micekdesign.com/delta-lambda-phi-template-designs One of the problems of being a designer is that I get asked to work for free very frequently. The following are the only situations that I would consider offering my services on the cheap. Designing for friends and family Friends and family can be tricky. Sometimes its acceptable to quote your ... http://www.micekdesign.com/working-for-free-friends-good-causes-and-publicity The biggest hurdle I have when getting distance jobs is proving my reliability and accountability. I believe that most people feel uncomfortable or worried when hiring someone without meeting that person face to face. How do we, as distance workers, address their concerns and project a feeling of accountability ... http://www.micekdesign.com/long-distance-design-issues-part-2-accountability-getting-paid Project Details The Dragons are a baseball team in the Central Illinois Collegiate League. An amateur and collegiate baseball league. I was responsible for the design of the Pocket Schedule for the 2008 season. The final measurements of the folded schedule are 2.5" x 3.5." I did not design the dragon's logo. Other ... http://www.micekdesign.com/dupage-dragons-2008-pocket-schedule Well, the last site design was live for only a couple weeks before I changed it into the current goofy/sunny design you're looking at now. This design started out as my first attempt to release a free/custom wordpress theme, but after staring at it for a while I realized that ... http://www.micekdesign.com/new-website-design-and-new-logo-design I'm in the process of implementing this sites redesign...obviously. As usual Internet Explorer is being super lame. This thing should be ready within a day. http://www.micekdesign.com/redesigning-the-site-hold-your-horses