Daniel J. Lewis | D.Joseph Design

Explore Podcasting

Daniel — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:11:54 +0000

Client: Ward Cameron

Project date: August, 2010

Comments:

Ward came to me asking for the cover art to display for his podcast about podcasting. I shared some concepts with him and started development. After just one revision, we had it nailed and he is very happy with the result.

The Audacity to Podcast

Daniel — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:10:36 +0000

Project date: 2010

Are You Just Watching?

Daniel — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:09:04 +0000

Project date: 2009

the Ramen Noodle

Daniel — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:05:42 +0000

Project date: 2007

Are You Just Watching?

Daniel — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:45:04 +0000

Project location: www.AreYouJustWatching.com

Project date: March 2009

Work performed:

Unique web design
WordPress setup and customization
Podcast production

Comments:

This is my own podcast website. It involves my own dynamic outer-shadow framework.

Creation College 3

Daniel — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:40:02 +0000

Client: Answers Outreach

Project location: www.CreationCollege3.com

Project date: Summer 2008

Work performed:

Web design based on existing event branding
Built interactive schedule table with CSS and jQuery
Integrated Google Maps and RegOnline APIs
Built into existing content management system

Comments:

Specially designed to promote a training conference with information about the speakers, location, and schedule.

Looking for a Drupal WYSIWYG Editor

Daniel — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:02:47 +0000

There are times that I love Drupal and times that I hate it. (I wonder how many blog posts will start with that sentence.)

Right now, my search is for a WYSIWYG editor. That acronym alone takes long enough to type because I have to mentally say, "what you see is what you get."

I've searched the Drupal modules for WYSIWYG editors, and I had found a review of five WYSIWYG editors that was then amended to praise the YUI Rich Text Editor. But upon installation for my own site, and using Firefox (the only browser I like to use), I was disappointed.

The menu bar was messed up, and it would prefer tags over tags for paragraphs. Although I could change this option, the settings warned that this would only work in IE. Sure enough, enabling the option means Enter/Return does nothing when typed through Firefox.

So now I'm looking at TinyMCE and FCKEditor. Neither have a full release version for Drupal 6, and although FCKEditor has a release candidate for Drupal 6, it warns against using it with Firefox 3 when Firebug is also installed, which is true for me. It then recommends using a nightly build to solve the problem, but I'm not sure that I want to mess with a nightly build.

So this leaves me still hard-coding my content within Drupal. If both TinyMCE and FCKEditor were options for me, which would you recommend and why? Is there something better that I'm missing?

Upcoming hosting change

Daniel — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:08:13 +0000

The short summary

I'm changing my web hosting plan, which will save you money, provide new features, and go into affect with your next renewal.

The longer details

I believe in being honest and personal in my business and that's probably why you've chosen me to serve your web hosting needs. So, I want to first share an honest frustration with you, but then share the solution that I hope will make your website more successful and save you money.

Although my contracted server provider advertises 750 GB of storage space for each hosting account, you don't see me spreading that because, deep in my provider's terms, they limit each account to 5 GB for each of four specific categories (media being one by itself). I think this stinks and is false advertising. If I tell you you get 750 GB of space or even just 10 GB of space, I want to make sure that you're allowed to fully use it! Thus, you were paying for a plan that sounded great but wasn''t really that great after deep investigation.

No matter which direction our economy takes, I know that the costs of your website is very important to you. Although you have paid mostly the same rate for the lifetime of your website with me, I've never shared that my contracted costs have increased 60% in just eighteen months—an increase in price to cover features that you might never use (like "750 GB" of space), even if you were allowed to use them!

Although you're probably satisfied with the features on your website now, there are additional features that I had wished that I could've offered: Ruby on Rails, SSH, or maybe even FFMPEG. Unfortunately, none of these were available.

Have you logged into your Cpanel within the last couple years? I absolutely hate those security warnings, especially if you're on Firefox 3 and have to do the whole ordeal of adding a security exception.

Now, let explain my new plans:

The 10/100 Plan

All the great features you've had before plus Ruby on Rails, SSH, better spam protection, Google Apps support, and more.
No more security warnings on your Cpanel!
10 GB of storage (true storage, not just advertised with restrictions)
100 GB of bandwidth
$5/month paid annually

The 20/200 Plan

The same as the 10/100 but with 20 GB storage and 200 GB bandwidth for $8.25/month paid annually

For more details on these plans, visit Web Hosting.

You won't have to do much to make this transition. As your renewal date approaches, I'll be in contact with you to move your website, including databases, email and FTP accounts, and everything else over to the new 10/100 plan (based on your current website usage). I'm confident that this transition will be nearly seamless, and I'll take care of most of it for you.

Welcome to the New DJosephDesign.com!

Daniel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:34:55 +0000

I am so pleased to finally launch the new website for D.Joseph Design! The last version of my site was what we could call "statically dynamic" pages that used PHP includes and customized PHP scripts to dynamically render each page. The site also employed WordPress as the blog system.

I love WordPress for it's simplicity and yet it's power. But I knew that I needed a much more robust content management system (CMS), and I felt combining CMSes would be sloppy and create more work than it was worth. After a lot of research, I made the same decision as Packt Publishing that Drupal would be the best solution for me because of it's vast power and extendability.

The road to completion involved more than twenty-five additional drupal modules, which meant testing more than twice that many modules to find just the right functionality.

This was more than a simple facelift and CMS switch. Aside from the blog archive, I rewrote every single page of my site, and introduced new web hosting options (which I will detail later).

The RSS subscription has also been adjusted so that subscribers can now receive not only my latest blog posts, but see when I add new items to my portfolio (hence the sudden onslaught of portfolio entries to current subscribers).

Please take a look around and I'd love to hear your feedback!

Kaiburr Wraiths Logo

Daniel — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:04:33 +0000

Client: Kaibur Wraiths gaming clan

Project date: 2006

Ziggurats Around the World

Daniel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:02:26 +0000

Client: Answers in Genesis

Project date: 2005

Tower of Babel Map

Daniel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:00:21 +0000

Client: Answers in Genesis

Project date: 2005

The Gospel versus the Antigospel

Daniel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:59:11 +0000

Client: Answers in Genesis

Project date: 2006

Three-Part Gospel

Daniel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:58:02 +0000

Client: Answers in Genesis

Project date: 2004

Earth Is the Right Distance from the Sun

Daniel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:57:05 +0000

Client: Answers in Genesis

Project date: 2007

Dinosaur Family Tree

Daniel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:55:52 +0000

Client: Dr. Terry Mortenson

Project date: 2006

Cursed World

Daniel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:54:50 +0000

Client: Answers in Genesis

Project date: 2005

The Bible Doesn't Mention ETs

Daniel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:53:40 +0000

Client: Answers in Genesis

Project date: 2007

Beginnings Lesson Slide

Daniel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:52:28 +0000

Client: Answers in Genesis

Project date: 2005

AiGPrayer.org

Daniel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:51:10 +0000