Needless to say, I was not in web development or graphic design anymore.
About 2 years, ago I was on the second iteration of Lampstand Creative when some thing happened both socially and technically – the web site went down and I saw no reason to bring it back up. That’s the short of it, here is the long. I was working for a local ad agency and was dabbling in web design and development. My goal had been to add this service to the business, but with the advent of a new son and increasing cost of living, I had to change jobs.
Needless to say, I was not in web development or graphic design anymore. I was hauling clean and dirty uniforms across the expanse of East Texas and sometimes into west Louisiana. I want to say, I do not consider myself too good for any kind of work. I want to be understood, I was happy to have work, and I tried to do a good and honest job. I was lost a lot, there is just no way around it. I saw and got lost in some beautiful and scary places. I also hauled some of the most foul smelling things. Sometimes you had to stop and take a break just to get away from the smell. This was definitely an adventure one that I look back on fondly.
What’s Next
Cut ahead a year and I am back in web development. Doing what I love, and Lampstand Creative is back up and running with a fresh new look and purpose. I hope to make the content here useful for life, web development, and web design.
You can look for 4 kinds of content here.
- Useful for life.
- I will use my experience as a father, man and follower of Christ to present truths and observations.
- Useful for web development (there are some smarter people out there, but I intend to stack up).
- Useful for web design (I really don’t see web design and development as different things but some people do).
- For fun (This is my playground).
Enough of that boring stuff
Let’s go over some of the details.
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- The Cutting Edge
- I will not be worrying too much about cross browser compatibility when it comes to this site. The item bellow will outline a little bit of what I am doing to try and make the web better. I really want to be on the cutting edge of what is going on and the best way to do that is to actually use the cutting edge stuff.
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- Proactive Browser Upgrading
- I have a little java script function that keeps out old versions of Internet Explorer (right now I am filtering all of them). However when IE 9 is released I plan to upgrade my script to prompt users to upgrade to IE 9 instead of simply pointing them to other browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera).
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- Hidden Content
- The details are for you to find out lets just stay that each featured post will have some hidden goodies. Yes there is a hidden goodie in this post.
Very nice redesign! Awesome graphics and usability and it even knows Safari and Opera Mobile from an Outdated Browser! Go Aaron . . .
Glenn
Glenn found the hidden content
BAD mistake to make it so that people browsing with Internet Explorer get a big stop message that suggests getting another browser. Bad for accessibility. Bad for the message it puts out (that you don’t know how to format a webpage for those with all browser), and overall just sends off a bad vibe.
I want you to know that you did not go unheard. Let me explain, I did design this site to be well laid out and functional in IE 8. My reasoning for this is that I do not plan on ever encouraging the masses to continue surfing the internet with out dated browsers. With that said your comment prompted me to fast track my releasing IE 8 to freely surf my site. However it is decidedly not as good, but it is functional. Blessings and good day sir.
i found the hidden content too.
Cool stuff! Really dig it.
very cool brother. i love it.
I am glad you like it did you find the hidden comment
Nice design, however the comments box section seems a bit too right hand weighted for my visual balance taste.
Thanks for the complement and critique Glad you enjoyed the site. Also I have visited your site recently and some of your projects are pretty cool.