Simple is beautiful and that is exactly what we have done with this design. Built on the powerful wordpress platform this website is not only beautiful but is very easy to maintain for our photographer friend. Leaving them more time to focus on the important things; creating incredible works of art.

A friend of mine owns and runs a store in Winnipeg under the name: "Asian Cabana". He asked me if I could build a website for his store to help him attract more customers. After meeting with him to discuss it further, I accepted and immediately started working on it. It went live yesterday with still some polishing left to do, but is very stable and useful already.

As I have always wanted to make my own pool game and needed a project to sharpen my C++ skills before my work starts, it seemed logical to make an OpenGL pool game. This will serve as an account of my progress on this project, and hopefully will be a source to draw inspiration from when I need it most. Remember, this is still a work in progress and I am doing it during my spare time, so this might stretch for a long time.

Designed and developed the University of Manitoba Society of Automotive Engineers website. I started with a few simple paper sketches, choose the sketch I liked best. Then it was off to creating a website layout in Photoshop. Next step was to take the layout and slice it into different pictures to be used in a Joomola -- an open source Content Management System -- template. Since this was my first Joomla template, there was a learning process to it. I took an existing template and heavily modified it -- using CSS and HTML -- to fit our needs. I also tested quite a few Joomla extensions that I thought might be useful to us. Finally, after reorganizing the website a little the new design was launched.

A few weeks later, after receiving some excellent videos of all the cars rotating 360º, I created a simple Flash animation you can now see on the front page of the website. This gave me a chance to work with both Flash and ActionScript, which I rarely get a chance to work with.

One of my favorite Joomla extensions is Phoca Gallery -- a gallery extension we use to display and mange image galleries. But like everything else, it is not perfect, therefore when we needed some custom behavior for the site I modified it to act the way we want. In the process I also found and fix a bug in the menu module. I posted the fix on the Phoca forums in the hope it will make it into the future releases.