Iamvery refreshed!

Honestly, it has been longer than I can remember since I had any helpful up at iamvery.com. Not that anyone was holding their breathe, but the wait if finally over!

I wanted to create a simple showcase of some work that I have done in the past few years. Sadly my “simple” idea ended up getting more and more complicated as I went on. In the end I think it turned out great. Hopefully my new site will function as a solid platform for me to advertise myself and my work.

About the design
For whatever reason, awhile back I decided I wanted to play around with some leather textures. I really liked the details in the material. Also, the stitching like you see in cars and such really jumped out at me. When I started playing with the logo and design I REALLY wanted to try and make it look embroidered. I poked around online for awhile and really never found any good suggestions on how to create such an illusion. My solution? Hand draw the thing! Every single “stitch” you see there was traced out. With my Wacom, it wasn’t to bad. Hopefully it looks pretty decent. Thoughts?

About the code
There isn’t a whole lot to say here. The site is valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS, a dash of PHP (for the contact form), and of course good ‘ole JQuery for the pretty effects and AJAX content.

My next goal is to translate this static site into a Ruby on Rails application. As far as I know my host does not currently support RoR apps so I’m not sure how I’m going to share…

Anywho, take a look at my new digs and let me know what you think!