Morning Glory House

This is a piece I’ve done about a year ago, but never wound up adding to my portfolio. The design was made for Morning Glory House which is an elderly retirement home near Kalamazoo, Michigan. They were looking for a solution to create and manage pages so they could easily update the website for their business as well as a floral themed design to match the name of their business.

For this custom wordpress theme development I used the thematic wordpress framework by Ian Stewart to cut down on cross browser inconsistencies and made a general layout.

The Site URL can be found at MGH Seniors.

this is under construction

It’s been a while since I posted on this site since the move over to Design Relay but as things turned out I got a little sick for a while and got really behind posting content over there. Since I got better, I took a look at my site here and realized things were way out of date and that my skill level had advanced far beyond what it previously was. I wanted to give a fresh new look to my site, one that accurately previewed my skill level. With that in mind I decided to build a new design for boylecreations.

It’s unfortunate that I didn’t have enough time to put out tutorials at Design Relay but I’ll be getting to that again very soon now that this design is out. I spent quite a bit of time on it and hand coded the theme from the ground up with photoshop and panics Coda text editor.

Now that all this is taken care of I can start posting articles here as well, and represent myself the way I’ve always wanted. I’ll be starting a new marketing campaign soon to promote boylecreations and designrelay as well as coming out with a lot more new content as well as working on some custom wordpress themes for sale.

I hope everyone enjoys the new look of things and I’m really excited to be writing again!

I’ve recently decided that I wanted to seperate my personal blog from a more informational and design related one. I’ve wanted to get into working with screencasts and tutorials to provide information for my clients and anyone out there who may find as much use from it as I do from many of the other blogs out there. For the time being, this blog will be carrying more personal information, (though some work related may still come in).

If you’d like to check out the new website the url is Design Relay

Hope you find something useful!

This was originally a design that I made when I was volunteering as a Web Designer for the Arcadia Commons West project in Kalamazoo, Mi.  We didn’t wind up using this design but I’ve had it shelved away in some old folders and decided to take another look at it and convert it to something more useful. I was using some images from SXC.HU that had a sort of community feel to them and one of them reminded me of Soccer. Long story short, I transformed the design into this wordpress design for a fictional soccer league. All work was done with Photoshop with wordpress in mind. When I get around to coding it I’ll probably work outside of Thematic this time and work with HTML5 since the functionality isn’t incredibly demanding.

Back when I was in College at the Center for New Media, there were a few semesters where a lot of work was passing through the school and having to be routed elsewhere. It was the idea of a few of the teachers at the school to have some of the web students get together and create a site, NOT attached to Kalamazoo Valley Community College to handle some of this work. While the idea was sound and it lasted for a while, the team largely had different agendas and were unable to meet enough to get the idea together. During that time however I came up for this design for the group. This was before I was working with PHP and WordPress so I didn’t really know to have a comments and post section designed for it but there is room for a content slider, and animated navigation with jQuery and could very easily be adapted to that platform.

SITE URL: Schema Therapy Midwest

STIM, or “Schema Therapy Institute Midwest” is a local Institute for using Schema Therapy to help individuals. There are multiple institutes around the US but this particular Institute was for a Kalamazoo branch. The owner of the site (George Lockwood) came asking me to translate their design into basic XHTML, without a Content Management System. For this project no design work was done by me, only XHTML and CSS.

Rivizion is a design I made for a fictional framework that’s intended use was for enhancing other Flash frameworks. I wound up creating an entire writeup on this software for a writing class I was taking as well. All colors, imagery and typography were used to resemble the design of Adobes Flash product to help communicate its purpose. The design is wordpress and e-commerce ready.