My company is Merrick Towle Communications which a PR company for the Real Estate Business.  I work as there primary flash developer.  I do a a lot of galleries, interactive maps and maybe the most challenging is the building tours.  The building tour is in most basic form an interactive gallery of floor plans and its most complex is an interactive search tool that allows per unit inspection of the entire complex.  Maybe one of my first building tour was for the Met Gramercy Property

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I wanted to continue the post The first project I am show casing here at my website watier.org is for the company Ogilvy PR. I contracted for Ogilvy PR for a couple of months and during that time I worked on clients like Johnson & Johnson, Macy’s, and here is one piece that I actual got to design from the ground up which was for Darden Restaurants who own Bahama Breeze.

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If I had traveled back in time and told my past self “learn Microsoft PowerPoint it will make you money” I would have never believed myself. But the truth is I have worked for some really great companies doing just that. I have continually worked for the Discovery Channel, National Geo, Randstad, Profiles, and others just because I can make a PowerPoint presentation sit up and bark. I have designed over 30 different PowerPoint templates that can feel like they were built my the most advanced interactive software. –>> Continue reading Working with Crayons – Powerpoint

Many Points in my life I have designed for different mediums.  Considering my age I have straddled the Print Age, and now the Web Age.   So much of what I have learned has built upon the foundation that I learned in print.   I have two grand lessons one is from Howard Pyle who taught that “in any painting you should be able to render it in black&white and still have it readable.”  And the other is from my father who made signs for 40 years and he taught “make it readable if you fail at that then you failed at everything.”

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I love Tech, and I also love that so much information is all online. For the design of my site I wanted to go for a very clean design that can be modified so the different sections will have a header that will change with the section you are in considering I am going to have multiple threads some all about a single book. So I looking into Conditional Tags in WordPress and I find the Codex files from WordPress.org are very useful.

Here is what I found about the conditional tags that I will use to alter the header of this theme when it is is different sections.

Conditional Tags