Web & Print Designer - Chris J. Lee

Dreamhost cluster got hacked and so did my blog

Chris J. Lee — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:44:51 +0000

So apparently my blog was hacked because a whole cluster of Dreamhost’s servers were hacked and my website was on that cluster as well. So their were able to run bash scripts to all of their customers on their cluster. Dreamhost eventually gave me temporary upgrade for that problem; but i never took advantage of that.

Lesson learned always use git or svn for your projects. At the time, i didn’t know how to do those things!

Anyways, when i do have time i’ll be back up soon!

Current News: I currently work for Globe Runner SEO in lewisville, texas and in my spare time i contribute to mymentalspace.com.

I still currently run my photography company part time as well. http://holymoleephoto.com.

Thanks for visiting!

Spibelt

Chris J. Lee — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:56:04 +0000

One of my first projects for Brandlabs.us were to create a landing page. The design and content was already created. My sole role was html/css production. The landing page had to pass rigorous tests passing browser consistency for (windows) opera 9.2, (windows) opera 9.5, (windows/mac) internet explorer 6, 7, and 8, firefox 2, 3 (windows/mac).

Banaszak Holl Group

Chris J. Lee — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:19:02 +0000

Banaszak Holl Group is a Interdisciplinary Research Group that is within the department of Chemistry at University of Michigan. This client asked 3.7 Designs to develop a website for them. Ross the Principal/President of 3.7 Designs asked me to help assist with the project.

On this project, Ross had developed the look and feel for the primary/front page. The project was then passed along to me to work on the subsequent secondary/sub-pages. The sub pages had to be consistent with the already designed primary/front pages.

Since this is a highly regarded research firm, I approached this with data and information design/interface design with the utmost highest priority. I made this decision based on a persona and experience with my past experience designing a website for a non-profit research website. The interface had to be logical and very easily to find and not too sophisticated. Careful considerations and decision on placement, type and typography were important in this process.

Much of the design and look and feel was required to be developed for 3.7 Designs. The design concepts were designed by Ross Johnson at 3.7 Designs.

Role: Design, Art Direction, Graphic Production

Technologies: Photoshop CS3

Status: Website was launched in 2009. Visit the website to learn more about the project: http://bhgroup.lsa.umich.edu/

Thickbox Loading Forever and Ever Problem

Chris J. Lee — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:18:20 +0000

Thickbox 3.1 is excellent to use. However, it will load forever and ever and will hang there. After monkeying around with various things and checking that everything is linked. I searched and scoured google for some answers. The answer lied in the wordpress forum. Which i cannot find the link again for the life of me.

The issue was that Thickbox 3.1 uses jquery 1.2.6. The version that i was using 1.3.2. In order to correct this dilemma. You just remove the @ symbol from line 78. I’ve went to the longest yard and have uploaded the version for you to download: Thickbox-min.js (ZIP)

Search Ad Marketing

Chris J. Lee — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:55:53 +0000

Search Ad Marketing is a web site project I helped on for 3.7 Designs of Ann Arbor. In this project, Ross (my direct supervisor) provided the look and feel.

This project brought some interesting challenges when templating in wordpress. The client required the contact form to be in two places: Front page and on the contact page itself. In order to solve this problem i ended up utlilizing a body selector to specifically hide forms on specific pages/posts.

Role: My role in this project was to convert this mockup into xhtml/css. Additionally, this website would run on WordPress. So a theme was needed to be developed.

Technologies: WordPress, xHTML, CSS

Plugins: Title tag, Contact Form 7

Sandy Heng

Chris J. Lee — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:17:56 +0000

Sandy Heng is a website that I worked on back in October 2008. This is a project I worked on for 3.7 Designs. This project was simple in that it was a small 5 page website. The art and photoshop mockup was already provided.

Role: On this project I worked solely on xhtml/css coding and implementation into a wordpress theme.

Lessons: WordPress is an excellent framework to use for blistering fast website production. I was able to complete the mockup to website in nearly 3 days.

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Featured in Smashing Magazine!

Chris J. Lee — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:10:52 +0000

In the end of February, I was featured in Smashing Magazine. The article discusses how to create a perfect portfolio. Luckily, I was picked among the many that had submitted their website. Wahoo! Continue reading →

Vogel Soccer Masters – Identity

Chris J. Lee — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:23:48 +0000

An MSU friend, Eric Vogel, tapped me to produce a logo and identity for his company: Vogel Soccer Masters. We went through various looks and themes. I did some sketching and produced a mark that was what he wanted.

Eric was an ideal client. He did what i told him to do and do the necessary homework in order to speed up the process. He provided a sketch himself to get me into the right direction. His sketched was a figure showing authority and expertise in the area.

Role: Art Direction, Art Production

Tools Used: Illustrator, Pen & Paper

Vogel Soccer Master Logo

Updating to WordPress 2.7

Chris J. Lee — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:54:30 +0000

So 2.7 rolled out quietly. I’m about to update it right now. Ross Johnson has a great review of WordPress: http://tinyurl.com/67bjjh

One Brick at a Time Part II

Chris J. Lee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:59:01 +0000

One Brick at a time is a performance and production produced by Ruhala Center of Performing arts in Haslett. They tapped me to do poster design for their performances. Eventually the performance was highly successful and required using the poster repeatedly.

If you were tuned in before you might have known that I had another previous design that I provided a design form Ruhala.

Eventually they wanted a design that was more clean and oriented toward families. They liked the previous design but felt that it didn’t fit the type of play that One Brick at a Time exuded.