This past weekend I attended Wordcamp Boston, an all-day conference dedicated to everything Wordpress. It was fun to meet other designers, developers, marketers and bloggers, as well as to learn more about Wordpress as a CMS. I was there representing Growth Spark and toward the end of the night gave an Ignite presentation on the future of Wordpress as a content management system for local service providers, namely restaurants and laborers. It went well! Check it out here:
January 27, 2010
January 12, 2010
Ignite presentation at Wordcamp
Rather unexpectedly, I was elected to present a brief Ignite talk at next weekend’s Wordcamp Boston conference, a networking event dedicated to all things Wordpress. Pretty cool, though I must admit, I’m nervous. I don’t mind public speaking, but an audience of 400 is more than I’ve previously engaged. 20 slides to create in 10 days, with 4 freelance gigs on my plate as well. Gotta launch the new website, too. A good test to see if I can pull it all off! Wordcamp Boston
December 28, 2009
ChrisBeaman.com redesign in 5,4…
The past few months have been crazy. I finished my Java course at Harvard, am still winding down several of my contracts, and have spent much longer than I’d hoped to design my new website. But it’s done! And the build is progressing well. I’d like to have it done by New Years, but I think that’s ambitious. We’ll see. I really like it, though, and hope you will too.
December 20, 2009
Wall Coaster video
I’ve finally launched my affiliate marketing campaign with Wall Coaster, with my first of probably several YouTube videos. It will probably take a while to go viral, but it will be interesting to see which video styles attract views. I’ll be using Insight for analytics on YouTube and Google Analytics on wallcoaster.com. Check it out and let me know what you think.
November 30, 2009
Blogger import to Wordpress
A good friend of mine told me a few weeks ago that he wanted to buy his girlfriend the domain name and hosting for the current title of her free Blogger blog, for her birthday. He wanted to give her her own website so that if it became popular, she could sell ads on it and make some money. As a good friend, he asked if I’d be willing to help him out, so as a good friend, I offered to rebuild her existing Blogger blog as a custom Wordpress theme. It came out pretty nice, and the import tool in Wordpress worked surprisingly well. Here’s the old blog: http://www.theprettierparty.blogspot.com and here’s the new one: http://www.theprettierparty.com
November 24, 2009
New design coming soon!
I recently redesigned my website and will be building it soon. The new design is much cleaner and more communicative of my efforts as they relate to creating user interfaces with marketing in mind. Here’s a sneak preview of the home page, with the Web Development tab selected. I’ll be incorporating a number of new JavaScript-based features, which is exciting.
November 5, 2009
Design for Babson College
I recently did a simple design project for Babson College’s Investment Tower, per Growth Spark. The sidebar and content columns are meant to represent elevating stock bars. The Investment Tower, as I understand it, is a special live-in housing unit at Babson where students of any major take on a fairly complex investment project over the course of a year using virtual money. Sounds pretty cool, if you ask me.
October 28, 2009
Playing with the Wall Coaster
A few years ago I made a YouTube video of this neat toy called Frigits which involves a Marble Madness-like track with pieces that you attach to your fridge, with magnets. To date, my video has become the most popular video on YouTube for the search term “Frigits.”
A couple months ago the inventor of a toy called the Wall Coaster contacted me after having found my YouTube video. Having invented a similar toy, he asked me whether I’d be interested in doing some affiliate marketing for him. I said I’d think about it, to which he replied that he’d send me a few free kits.
It’s now been a month or so and having made some negotiations I’m set to begin doing an affiliate marketing campaign for Wall Coaster. Pretty cool what’s resulted from an unassuming YouTube upload. More details to come!
October 10, 2009
Design for Terrene
Here’s a design I recently did for Terrene, a sustainable building supplies company. The contracting was performed through Growth Spark, a local design and development firm. Terrene offers a lot of cool products, namely their cabinets, which are beautiful. Check them out!