Spring has definitely hit here in New England – the trees have their leaves again, the temps are in the 70′s, and I even harvested my first radishes and lettuce from my vegetable garden! But the world being in bloom isn’t the only excitement around here – I’m also looking forward to finally finishing my Masters Degree in Interactive Design & Game Development from SCAD – and I’ll be walking across the stage on May 29th to get my degree. All the long nights, and lack of weekend fun for the past couple years have paid off!

Things are also busy here in the studio – I recently launched the new Freelance Whales site, a new splash page for Tokyo Police Club, and I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to work on the webstore for Team Radio Shack and  the webstore for Mellow Johnnys, Lance Armstrong’s bike shop in Austin, TX.  I’ll be updating the portfolio shortly with these, and some other tasty new interactive pieces.

In other news, I’m currently working on a program to start offering non-profits that are focused on animal welfare, animal rights, and animal rescue discounted web design services. These causes are extremely important to me and close to my heart – so I feel that this is a good way I can give back and put my skills to positive use. Stay tuned for more details on this program in the next couple months!

For those of you familiar (and those of you not familiar) with the band Lucero, check out the new website I put together for them at www.luceromusic.com

Just in time for Mothers Day!

I just finished up the online portfolio for my Mom to show-off her wide-array of talent! She does everything from drawings & painting, to furniture and murals! Check it out at www.Claudia-Golden.com!

Okay – so we’re already 14 days into 2008…I suppose it is a bit belated at this point. It’s fixin’ (thats the ‘Florida’ southern drawl slowly creeping in and taking it’s horrid hold on my vocabulary) to be a busy year so far!

I’m working on a line of plates for a company Creative Treasures - the details are ‘Top Secret’ at this point but stay tuned in a few months for some further information.

There are websites-a-plenty that are brewing right now…and they’re all going to be awesome!! Some will be utilizing some of my exciting new Coldfusion and Flex skills, and I’m simply dying to get them out there….but, yes, patience is a virtue my friend. And unfortunately in the web development world, killer websites don’t finish themselves overnight, so continue sitting on the edge of your seat.

Also, and in somewhat minor, yet personally exciting news, I made some changes to my website tonight – none of which you will notice….mostly some ActionScript changes that really improve the sites functionality and flow. They’re silly things that I’ve noticed – and likely noone else has…but it’s a sweet personal victory over procrastination! Yay! (and a few items added to the portfolio…perhaps those are things you would notice)Cheers! 

Check out the site I just completed for my sister and brother-in-law

www.winterparkresortcondo.com

 They have an awesome condo in Winter Park, Colorado that they use as a vacation rental! Now you should think about taking a trip to Colorado…(*nudge*)!