To create an internationally accessible portal to the company's thousands of products and documentation.

Süd-Chemie’s customer portal, the place where customers come to review product data and update their account status, needed to be expanded to international customers while preserving the company’s proprietary corporate permissions on a per-product, per-customer basis. Product and account listings required a twice-daily update via FTP, and products that had previously been ordered by a customer required special handling for that customer. Product listings required a custom document strategy that would allow some documents to be placed on a per-product basis, yet others to be picked from a menu. Administrators needed a total of 5 different sets of permission, and based on their customer base, should be able to log in as a customer, using only the company’s proprietary customer id number.

Site was built in Expressionengine CMS. Custom modules and custom plugins were written to handle all product searches in consideration of the company’s very intricate and specific permission structure. CRON enabled to handle FTP imports twice daily from SAP which determine all customer content and all customer membership, allowing the company to handle and manage customers off-site. Member activation is governed by weblog entries/javascript/php and internal registration form alike. Site was buillt with 2 sides: customer and admin. Admin can swap to customer side if they are allowed to see the customer’s account / help the customer.

In: Web Development, Completed

To create an enticing shopping cart website for Desert Intarsia to be able to update and manage.

Brand new website recently was completed for the Desert Intarsia Gallery in Albuquerque NM, in Expressionengine for the sale of their handmade jewelry and announcements regarding their First Friday events. Site was micro-formatted to better inform search engines of their new location on Gold Street

In: Web Development, Completed

To create conceptually reinforced images from user data stemming from Twitter and other social networking sites.

In: Art / Studio Projects, Conceptual, Web Development, Ongoing

To promote a person, business, or service that rocks, free of charge!

Well, considering advertisements should be used to promote stuff I actually want to have on my site, I am hereby introducing the “Absolutely Free” Ad Space - the ad space I give away for FREE to the company, service, or person I am inclined to feature for as long as I wish to feature them. This may be a friend, a cause, the return of a favor, or whatever, but this I can guarantee: it is absolutely un-coerced and out of my own intention. It is absolutely free traffic for the beneficiary, and they deserve it, for just being cool enough to deserve this free real estate on my site. Nuff said!

In a short while, I will have a form set up on this website to fill out for new ad considerations. Filling this out fully is the best guarantee of getting the Ad Space- that and sending me a direct email knowing to expect you. Feel free to tell your friends about the “Absolutely Free” Ad space too!

In: Web Development, Ongoing

I’m looking forward to taking my latex color painting to the next level: the landscapes of New Mexico. First on the list will be the volcanoes of the petroglyph national monument, to the west of Albuquerque and visible from just about every point in the city. Next will be the Sandia mountain horizon, to the east, and a much more prominent landform of Albuquerque, and can even be seen in some of the films coming out of the area (*cough Beerfest *cough). I’m also looking forward to going to the Acoma reservation and painting some of their incredible, timeless rocks. I have recently added a new color to the 6-color palette, a cool, glossy, deep blue that I believe to be the newest missing ingredient to this body of work.

In: Art / Studio Projects, Conceptual

To collect as many solicitation "credit cards" as possible.

The predatory nature of credit card lending is evident only to those of us who it has burned before. Furthermore, a measure of “too much” credit has been extended to consumers, leaving our economy in the mess where it now exists. Credit cards are dually both a symbol of wealth and a symbol of need, both a symbol of stature and a symbol of weakness. I am motivated to create sculptural objects out of credit cards that present both the positive and negative sides of credit and the credit system for mutual observation. I have already collected hundreds of “credit cards” from solicitation letters and I need your help to collect thousands more.

Save your card solicitation credit cards! Put them in a pile, and send them to me at Chroma Studios. I am especially interested in the American Express Clear/Blue “Your Name Here” cards, which you’ll recognize if you get them.

In: Art / Studio Projects, Conceptual