Alex's Projects

The Website and Blog are finished in their design, just are ongoing in terms of content adding.

There are two websites and two blogs. The first is Alexrawlins.com and the second KenjiRawlins.com. What follows are the particulars of the sites.

Alex Rawlins site
Hosting: .mac
Target Audience: who knows, and family
Content: Blog, Free stuff, personal info, links to accounts and fun stuff
Design: In flux, working off a barely customized RapidWeaver template

Kenji Rawlins site
Hosting: .mac
Target Audience: grandma's, family, friends
Content: Baby pictures, static baby information, etc
Design: Highly customized RapidWeaver template with all new graphics, and altered CSS. (basically a new template designed based on exsisting templates and the theme development kit)

Alex Rawlins Blog
Hosting: portion of Alex Rawlins site
Target Audience: Family, DIY people, Design
Content: DIY, projects

Kenji Blog
Hosting: portion of Kenji Website
Target Audience: Family
Content: Pictures, etc about Kenji

The sites and blogs are made in RapidWeaver. So that I can update my posts and gather information, all posts are written on Google Docs and later edited and copied into rapidweaver for publishing.

At some point I may need some form of feedback engine on the blog, but for now I am not putting one. You just have to email.

This blog will have categories for the following.

Home
Children and Baby Projects
DIY Plans
DIY Finished
Announcements
Illustrator
Podcasting

Home will be related to my new home and projects related to it. Baby will be the same thing but with projects related to the baby. For info on baby shower, ultrasound etc go to the baby's website. link DIY plans will be the ruminations on what I am going to do, and DIY finished for when I have completed a project. The announcements are like this post. The Illustrator is other Adobe Illustrator and Vector stuff. Podcasting is not going to be used for now.

Ok, here we go. I have decided to really try to do at least one entry a week for at least a year. Preferably 2-3 times a week.

The blog will focus on me, my life, and a set of projects. As I am now 28, I want to be somewhat productive this year in my life and get a lot of stuff done. The problem is that I like doing to many random things. So I need to focus somewhat, and work on a set group of things. So I will be doing every project in the book D.I.Y. Design It Yourself



One of the projects is a blog, and another is a website. Both of these will be handled here and I will explain them in another post. I will also be starting a baby blog most likely, which will be co-authored by my wife and will be on our son's website. My wife is due November 2nd.

Some projects I really have already done in the past, but I will find a way to redo them again. Of course my birthday was in June and I have been busy so I am already behind. There are all valid excuses, but still excuses. (Buy a new house, move into a new house, bring up new doctors offices at work, wife is pregnant, go on vacation, etc)

Here is the list of projects from the book. They are not in order because I have grouped some of them by related items.

Blog (your here)
Books -blank
Books -printed
Brand
-Business Cards
-Logos
-Press Kits
-Stationary
CD/DVD label and Case
Embroidery
Paper Products
-Envelopes
-Flyers
-Invitations
-Newsletters
-Note Cards
-Postcards
-Stickers
Gifts
Housewares
Kids & Design
Photo Albums
Presentations
T-Shirts
Tote Bags
Wall Graphics
Web Sites (your here)
Zines

This means 27 projects. At 52 weeks in a year I need a project done a bit shorter than every two weeks. With Christmas coming up, several will be done for December.

Besides being on the web, I have a MoleSkine Notebook for general notes about the projects, and a sketchbook for designs and a larger sketching area. I also am using my new favorite pen, my Black Uniball Signo bit 0.18mm. (not in general US distribution, found an importer)

Entries into this blog will be in several categories, which will be explained in the next post.