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Ever wonder why World of Warcraft has such a devout following? The reason is because of a concept known as addiciton based game design. It’s used in a variety of games to draw the user in, and get them hooked. It has made Blizzard millions, and these concepts can be used when designing web applications and other kinds of programming as well.

PSDTuts Recently put up a tutorial called “How to Create a Hellacious Flaming Skull in Photoshop” , which is a valuable skill to have for any web designer in my opinion, especially if there are a lot of metal bands in your area. I decided to follow the tutorial and see how I could do.

While I’ve been very busy and haven’t been that active on this site, I have written a couple articles for JHouseMedia that I wanted to let everybody know about:

Coding For Work vs. Coding For School

Pros and Cons of an MVC Framework

[JHouse Media Project] Two Story Coffee House is a site I worked on at J House Media, meaning that I did not handle any of the design work, and that it was built on their in house Tiger Admin Framework. I did do all of the programming for the site, including but not limited to [...]

[JHouse Media Project] Athens Kidney Center is a site I worked on at J House Media, meaning that I did not handle any of the design work, and that it was built on their in house Tiger Admin Framework. I did do all of the programming for the site, including database design, creating the staff [...]

FretFeed.com is a Guitar Tutorial and news site I run. It’s another project built on Wordpress using the Option’s theme.  This site was the first time I had used the options theme and I really fell in love with it. I love playing guitar, and this site has been a real joy to work on.

This is a relatively new blog project I have begun. It origianally started as an idea of something to sell on the Sitepoint marketplace, but according to some affiliate companies, Grants for students may be one of the big new niches, so for the time being, I have decided to hold onto it. It is [...]

Chromand.com is our homepage, where we provide various services, articles, tutorials, and more to potential clients and fellow web designers and developers.  It i built on Wordpress using a variety of other tools.

Athens bar hopper was one of my first projects working online.  It was recently rebuilt on an early version of Chromand’s Dragonflii system.  While the site is no longer active, It stays up as an example of what this system can do. Originally, this site was designed and coded by my friend Jon Skeen and [...]

Today is a day that many think, hope, and believe that change has to come to these United States of America. During Barack Obama’s Inauguration, two things stood out to me. Firstly, how embarrising must it be to flub on your oath in front of the entire nation like he did? Secondly, he made the statement “The world has changed and we must change with it”. This is a very true and thought-provoking statement, especially with the rapid expansion of technologies of our world today.