Fact: the pseudoroom site contains an archive of my freelance design work (among other things). Fact number two: I haven’t been a full-time freelance designer for over 4 years now. As such, you posit: “Hey Chachi, you’re not a freelance designer; where’s your current creative work?” Well, my inquisitive/nosey friend, a portion of my current agency work at Xeno Media (that’s where I work, you know) is on our new Wordpress-driven site that launched earlier this week.
The process of designing/producing your own site, particularly while at an agency, always proves to be the most difficult. This massive non-billable effort needs to be factored into an active workload, among many other internal factors. As the third major WP-based design I’ve done that has launched in the past couple months (this site’s new design and GUIGalaxy being the other two), my love for Wordpress has been nothing but strengthened. Almost to a fanatical, Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction degree (that’s love, right…?). For example, on the GUIGalaxy site, even I was able to code a login system into the header, displaying “New Post” and “Edit Account” controls once authenticated (and I’m no php programmer). When leveraged as the right solution for a project of appropriate scope, the winner of the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards has yet to let me down.
Now that the site is live, I’m off with my wife to Beijing, China, to visit the new in-laws. There over a week (including the Thanksgiving holiday), it should prove to be a tremendous experience. And, dare I say, a nice break away from design and Wordpress.