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Envato Elite Countdown

Jake — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:58:50 +0000

A while back @jamigibbs made a neat little Countdown to Elite site. To update it, she’d go in and enter her total value of sales and it’d subtract it from $75,000, thus giving her the total amount needed until she became elite. I asked Jami if I could have her little site and she kindly gave it to me. Thinking it’d be much easier just to pull the total sales from the API, I looked into that, but the closest thing to that was an output of the total earnings each month. So the way this little site works now is a bit convoluted, but it auto generates it. Here’s a rough breakdown:

We get the total number of earnings, figure out how many commission tiers were crossed (every ($1875 + x($37.50))), add the difference between the total of those and (x($1875)), and then subtract that from $75,000.

Easy as pi. I can’t take all the PHP credit though, my buddy Tony wrote it up but he doesn’t have any sites or social media I can link to. So, hat-tip Tony.

You can check out Jami’s elite site or my elite site if you want to too.

Anyway, here’s the download link.

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Friends with werkpress

Jake — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:13:43 +0000

Woah it’s been a while since a blog update, huh? We’ll I can assure you I’ve been keeping busy! The last few months have seen a plethora of new sites for clients as well as the beginning of my venture into premium WordPress themes that are now for sale on ThemeForest and Mojo Themes.

So that brings me the point of this blog post; While I was at WordCamp San Francisco this past year (where I hung around with fellow ThemeForest authors Jason Bobich, Chris Molitor, and my heterosexual bunk-mate Mike McAlister) I met some awesome people, including Travis from werkpress.com.

Werkpress is a theme customization shop based out of Minneapolis, MN. What they do is simple, they take the premium theme that you bought and customize to fit your needs perfectly. So after speaking with Travis, I’ve decided to divert all of my theme customization requests over there. This way it leaves me more time to make more themes and to dedicate to my clients.

So if you’ve bought one of my themes and need some customizations done, please fill out this form.

Pet It Forward

Jake — Mon, 23 May 2011 22:24:40 +0000

Pet It Forward is a social service site for pet owners. I worked alongside programmer Steve Sohcot to make this site happen.

The concept is simple, you need your dog walked while you’re away and I need my dog walked while I’m away… Why not do it for each other? Well, actually the site dives much deeper than that. You can save money on pet care, or even make money by performing pet care related services for others in your community.

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It’s Vacation Time

Jake — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:01:07 +0000

Well I suppose I shouldn’t slave away on a computer all the time. I’m going to be taking off Memorial Day, as well as a whole week coming up in June and that means I’m not going to be doing any work, answering the phone, or even checking my email. I just thought I’d better give all of my clients a heads up, so this is it. I’ll have another designer / developer lined up in case of any web emergencies.

And this gave me reason to make this sweet graphic. Big kudos to @ormanclark and Premium Pixels for the pretty little calendar.

New Business Cards

Jake — Fri, 20 May 2011 21:58:13 +0000

I designed a new mini business card on a whim the other day, lo and behold 47 hours later a box was at my door. As you can tell from my card, I keep things very serious and extremely professional. “Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it.” Extra points if you know what that’s from.

Spectrum Restoration

Jake — Fri, 20 May 2011 21:34:05 +0000

Spectrum Restoration is a cleaning and restoration company based out of Aurora, IL. They handle both emergency cleanup as well as just standard maintenance cleaning. Also, their ‘Peace of Mind Guy’ Will has an excellent beard.

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ArtGalleree

Jake — Wed, 18 May 2011 21:35:11 +0000

ArtGalleree is a website where artists can create an account and sell their art. Normal art galleries charge a commission rate for selling art (usually from 20% to 60%), but ArtGalleree sets itself apart by charging artists a flat fee to be a member and letting them keep 100% of their sales.

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The CIC

Jake — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:02:45 +0000

The Village of Carpentersville, IL, with help from a grant from Kane County, contracted me to design and build a new site for the Carpentersville Improvement Committee. The CIC is a group of citizens dedicated to “Making a better community from the inside out!”

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Some Clean Buttons

Jake — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:22:05 +0000

I recently made these buttons for a project that I’m working on. I liked the simplicity of them so I thought I’d share. I know there’s a plethora for other buttons you can download on the web, what’s a couple more? Go ahead and download the PSD’s and use them as you see fit.

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Illinois Valley Cellular Mockup

Jake — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:56:37 +0000

About a year ago I had a meeting with Illinois Valley Cellular about rebuilding and redesigning their site (they were [and I believe still are] using Frontpage). They were in need of a major facelift especially being in the technology industry. Anyway, I’m not one to do spec work, in fact I often speak out against it, but I thought for this meeting I’d bring something to the table to blow them away.

I whipped up this bad boy while eating lunch one day, I promised myself I’d do it under an hour. It’s far from the best it could be, but for 60 minutes worth of work I think it turned out ok.

Needless to say, nothing came of the site… in fact they’re still using Frontpage. Oh well, no harm no foul.

EDIT: 1-25-2012 – It looks like Illinois Valley Cellular got a new site done by Paramore in Nashville. It’s quite beautifully done in HTML5 and CSS3, check it out if you haven’t seen it yet.