Solar Dragons LLC

After hearing some information at a 3 day assembly that discussed time wasters, I decided to focus more effort on my blog and ditch the social networking sites. The only one I will keep for now is Linked In. It has provided the most bang for the buck as far as keeping up with business associates, having useful links to website info I need, etc. The rest are just sapping my time very slowly…

This week is super crazy: I have Trish’s stuff to work on but I haven’t heard from her since she went back to Louisiana, Mark’s hummer stuff, poetic process and techno fugit. I need to organize my work files on my computer to get a more streamlined process. I found a slideshow template that I had been experimenting with a while ago that might do the trick for the hummer site.

I talked to Vince about some things we could do for his Linked In Groups. I called a friend, Maurice, to help with the idea as well. The plan is to start groups, transition into forums and then meeting in public at various places. This is most likely going to help Vince since he needs to meet in person. On Solar Dragons end however, we can benefit by moderating the forums, having ads posted for businesses, etc. I bought www.technofugit.net and started the Techno Fugit group today. I not feeling to good, so i most likely won’t be leaving the house. might as well get a jump on some work.

I got the login info I needed from Mark Price for the Hummer Club. I don’t have access to the server though, just an admin panel. I’m going to have to get access to the server. He has three sites he wants me to work on: www.illianahummerclub.com, www.illianahummerclub.org and www.nisark9.com. I really want to get started before the year is up. Mark says that things are going to start jumping in the spring for the hummer club. I definitely want to have things up and running before then. I don’t want the hummer club deadlines to start to clash with the Techno Fugit ideas.

I finally decided to return to this annoying yet useful world of blogging and tweeting and linked in. I went to lynda.com and started taking the classes to teach you php. It’s been a long time coming but I think my mind is in the right place to comprehend and retain it. The last time I started to learn it I was so repulsed by the fact that I was learning a programming language and not learning something from a creative end that I mentally blocked myself from really absorbing and retaining the information. I like the video clips because the intro was pretty good; why use php, where does it come from, etc. Now I can convince myself that I need php to be more creative, not less. There’s all these websites I want to make but without php, its not going to happen.

I bought my old site www.poeticprocess.org. There are things I want to experiment with using my poetry site. I already learned how to setup an apache server and install php. I’m going to write down what I want the poetry site to do and see if that will encourage me to learn php at an even faster rate. Everything I’m doing is going to be client-side, so I dont have to worry about crashing/blowing up a server because I dont know what I’m doing… yet.

I finally finished the new site I’ve been working on for a while, Compass Investments LLC. The site was easy but I was getting unexpected complications dealing with Dreamweaver. I still have to update my site. There are some things that I want to do but I don’t want the hassle of dealing with the programming. maybe an intern can handle it, if I get one. I received an email from Purdue. They just needed some info, then they are going to put me in their system to look at resumes. Hannah, the girl I might hire for design, called this morning. We have a meeting for Thursday at 11am. Hope that works out. Even if things don’t work out with basic stuff, at least we can still make the comic. I hope to get back into that soon. All this other stuff is paying the bills but draining me creatively.

Ok. So I’m back from vacation, getting back into the groove. I’m finally settling on a theme for redesigning my site. I talked to some friends of mine who are salesmen and they are willing to work freelance with me in the sales arena to keep me connected to Chicago. Vince is getting me in contact with someone he knows in sales and marketing, so I can have NWI covered. I also just talked to a girl that is graduating from school. She wants experience and I want to expand into print material. So we are trying to finalize things next week.

To be honest, I need a couple of design interns if this is gonna balance out. The clients I have now are already taking up a lot of time. I can’t do their sites while taking on more clients. I should talk to Robert Morris either this week or next week. When the site is done, I’ll print up the business cards and we can get this show on the road.