Tags: company-updates

In light of the new Dvorak Designs website that is on the way, I am going to start Sharing and Retweeting relevant news on our Facebook and Twitter pages. Since I’m just one person, and I can’t blog about everything (even though I wish I could), I’m hoping that this will help get information out [...]

As you’ve probably noticed, there has been a lack of updates on my blog during this last month. It’s partly due to the holiday season, and being busy with other projects. Though it’s mostly because I’ve been working on learning new web design techniques and getting into new habits with handling projects. By learning new [...]

I updated my portfolio again today, because I finished what I consider to be a pretty huge project for me. It was my first attempt at doing any type of serious illustration work. It was in the form of three cats that are going to be used on children’s book covers. I think they turned [...]

Over the next few days I will be working on the look and feel of all the websites on the network, as well as working towards making them even more user friendly. I like doing live testing, so if you end up on one of our pages and things don’t look right, just give it [...]

Today my portfolio was updated with quite a few projects that were completed since the last update. There are too many to list in this post, so be sure to head over to my portfolio to see them all. One of the bigger ones in this update is an eBay template. eBay templates are a [...]

Over the next week or two I’m going to be restructuring the blog. Mostly I’ll be redoing the categories things are divided into so I can provide a better browsing experience for everyone and cover a broader range of topics. During this time, links to some articles may be temporarily broken while I setup redirects [...]

We’re currently looking into what’s causing some issues with the blog. Problems include: posts not being shown on the front page, related posts and popular posts lists being misaligned in some browsers, as well as issues with the input boxes for comment and the footer of the blog.

An update will be provided once these issues are resolved.

As some of you probably noticed, all of the Dvorak Designs websites were down over the weekend. Thankfully we’re back online and fully functional, and no data was lost. What happened was largely out of our control, at least in terms of preventing it and fixing it quickly. Our host company ran into MySQL and [...]

Today we added http://www.balancedundergrowth.info to our portfolio. Balanced Undergrowth is a class specific blog for the popular game World of Warcraft. The purpose of the blog is to give the author and his readers a place to discuss aspects of the game as they relate to the Druid class. The design of the blog is meant to reflect the style of the game as well as the specific class the blog is about. The header uses recognizable aspects from the in game models to make the name of the blog look more unique and stand out more than just having the words there. The colors used through out the rest of the blog were pulled from the header, and are were also chosen because they reflect the class while maintaining a more neutral tone that’s easy on the eyes.

Also related to World of Warcraft, we completed another forum signature for a player of the game. The signature is intended for use on different gaming forums. The design was chosen because it best reflects the class depicted in it (Death Knight). The model was taken from in game, and the rest of the elements were designed around the colors of the model.

I wanted to take the time to make a post and let everyone know what I’m working on currently, and what I’ll be working on in the somewhat near future. Currently I’m finishing up optimizations for the “screen” versions of all the network websites, that is the version of the website you see when you [...]