Keith Bates, Freelance Web Designer

Project Update: 2010 Texas Bulldog Show

12/03/2009

The Fort Worth Bulldog Club and The Lone Star Bulldog Club are partnering together for a bulldog specialty show in 2010.  I had the pleasure of designing the show website. This was my first stab at an illustrated style website.  Everything was designed using Adobe Illustrator and developed in pure XHTML and CSS.  jQuery Modal was [...]

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Project Update: Levymedia.com is Live!

06/21/2009

Levy Media, an independent video production company, hired me to refresh their identity and website. Owner, Jason Levy, recently relocated to Kansas City, MO and felt it was a good time to start fresh and new. After we discussed the details and determined the scope of the project I started with the logo. I fired up [...]

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Project Update: Weedex Testimonial Video

05/18/2009

I recently completed my first video production project. The client was Weedex Lawn Care and the project was to create a customer testimonial video emphasizing the benefits of their services (vs. DIY) and cost efficiency. Working in cooperation with Andy Slipher we visited with four different Weedex customers to get their impressions of Weedex’s service [...]

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Illustrator Tutorial: Creating a Cloud

04/19/2009

This is a pretty simple and straight forward tutorial that doesn’t require advanced skills but you should have a basic understanding of Illustrator. I am using CS4, but this will also work in CS3. To get started, let’s fire up Adobe Illustrator and create our document. You are free to choose your own dimensions [...]

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Inspiration from The Web – March 29th, 2009

03/30/2009

These are a few websites I’ve come across that I found either very useful, attractive, functional and/or all of the above. Hopefully, these sites can help provide creative inspiration. Content ranges from illustration styled websites to Flash and more. form + function form + function is an interactive web design studio based in Canada, creating [...]

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