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Rocketship Industrial Design

Rocketship is an industrial design studio located in the heart of Provo, UT.  Rocketship has designed Provo Craft’s Cricut, Philip’s GoLite Blu, and the Jet Boil.  With Beth Robertson’s designs, we were able to launch a new, clean version of their site in December 2008.  Rocketship wanted many custom features.

Special Features:

• Dynamic Projects
• Flex Slideshow & Thumbnail Slider with AJAX Integration
• SEO Friendly w/AJAX
• Custom Skinned Wordpress Engine for Their News Section
• BaseCamp Login Integration
• PayPal Integration for Client Payments
• Social Media Sharing

Problem: Rocketship needed the ability to manage their own projects in their ‘our work’ section.
Solution: Projects and their images are dynamically pulled from a database.

Problem: Rocketship needed to have the projects thumbnail slider communicate with the slideshow.  The slideshow needed to talk to an image navigation in HTML.
Solution: Using Adobe Flex, I was able to create a custom slideshow and project slider to display their projects.  Using AJAX I was able to communicate between the slideshow and the slider.  Also using AJAX, I was able to have the slideshow communicate with the image navigation.

Rocketship - Our Work

Problem: Rocketship wanted a news section that fit with their site.
Solution: I created a custom Wordpress skin that matched their site.  I used the Wordpress engine to power their blog and make it SEO friendly.

Rocketship - News w/ Wordpress

Problem: Rocketship wanted clients to be able to pay for invoices on their site.
Solution: I used PayPal integration to allow clients to enter an invoice number and amount.  This allowed PayPal to handle the credit card authentication process.

Problem: Rocketship wanted clients to be able to login to their BaseCamp system.
Solution: Using HTTP posts I was able to allow the user to login to BaseCamp through a form on Rocketship’s site.

Problem: Rocketship wanted users to be able to share projects and news articles with friends.
Solution: Using AddThis I was able to customize the widget to fit with Rocketship’s design guidelines.  Users were able to share on virtually every social network available.

Rocketship - AddThis

Aspire - Product Designer

Aspire has revolutionized the way youth sporting pictures are taken.  Providing a green screen allows the players and the parents to design their own posters, shirts, and even trading cards.  At Rain I was the primary Flex developer for Aspire’s product designer.  The designer allows users to design custom posters, shirts, trading cards, team pictures, blankets, and other products.

After being in beta since July 2008, we released the major release of Aspire in September, 2009.

Aspire’s business model is unique.  Aspire does a photo shoot, uploads the green screen photos, autogenerates all products for each player, and then sends the player an email letting them know their account is ready.  The user can then login and customize their own products.

Aspire was featured in an Adobe Max Keynote by RainInteractive ’s Andrew Howlett (32 min). Keynote: http://bit.ly/BAmiI

“Trading cards are a top seller! Nowhere else on the planet can one design and order a trading card this way! We greatly appreciate the awesome tool you have created.” – Chris from Aspire

Aspire - Poster Designer

Serve Your Ward, Post Your Job

Serving in my church is a great way for me to volunteer my time and talents to help others. Recently my wife and I were called as the Employment Specialists in my BYU Married Ward. This past Sunday we launched a ward employment web site that helps married college students find work in the Provo / Orem area. I used Wordpress to power the site and the Jobpress theme to power the Job Board. Any ward member can post jobs where they work. This allows ward members to network with each other.  Those looking for work get employed faster than before.

Google docs is a powerful surveying tool.  We set up a survey through google docs forms that allows us to know where each ward member is employed and what their job title is.  If you have never used Google Docs forms, I HIGHLY recommend you do so.  They are quite powerful and save a lot of time.  I used these forms to compile my wedding addresses.

Employment Survey

White Smiles Family Dentistry

My brother’s dental practice, White Smiles Family Dentistry, needed a new web site. I built and designed the web site from scratch. Check out the site today! If you are in Orem or Provo and need a family dentist, go check him out. All new equipment, digital x-rays, and a gorgeous view of Mount Timpanogos while you sit in your chair. If you mention his web site you get a $25 credit.