Projects Completed in 2010

  • Home Page of Town and Country Barber The Town and Country Barber Home Page
  • Project: Town and Country Barber
  • Filed Under: Web Sites
  • Project Completed: 2010
  • Description: With this project, Solidare Design focused on search engine optimization to increase Town and Country's search engine rankings. We have also crafted an easy to use administration area where Bill can upload new pictures to his site with a few clicks.

Projects Completed in 2009

  • CSEO for IPB Default forum skin for CSEO.
  • Project: Community SEO
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2009
  • Description: I was asked to create a skin for IPB 3.0 that felt like the old skin. I coded the skin to fit seamlessly with the rest of the web site, and cleaned up the blue a bit to make it more cohesive.
  • Invisionize 3.0
  • Project: Invisionize 3.0
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2009
  • Description: A skin upgrade of the official skin for Invisionize, fully compatible with IPB 3.0.
  • Oscar Support 3.0
  • Project: Oscar Support 3.0
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2009
  • Description: While upgrading an older skin for the latest version of IPB, I redesigned it to be a little cleaner in appearance.
  • Project: VirtualVice.net
  • Filed Under: Web Sites
  • Project Completed: 2009
  • Description: VirtualVice.net is the homepage of author Jason M. Kays, an IP lawyer branching out in writing with his first book!
    This is a custom designed and developed web site running on IP.Board and IP.Content.
  • Project: All Access Bail Bonds
  • Filed Under: Web Sites
  • Project Completed: 2009
  • Description: I was handed a rough mock up of this site, and I cleaned it up and coded the PSD into a web page.
    The site features easy to edit content pages, and a contact form with inline validation.
  • Pandys.org Forum Index
  • Project: Pandora's Aquarium
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2009
  • Description: A forum designed to match the look and feel of http://Pandys.org, a non-profit designed to help survivors of rape.
  • Home page The Solidare Design v1 Home Page
  • Project: Solidare Design
  • Filed Under: Web Sites
  • Project Completed: 2009
  • Description: Launched in October 2010, Solidare Design was built as a personal portfolio on top of the Solidare Design Core.
    The SD Core was in development since early 2007, and this was the first site fully developed on the codebase.

Projects Completed in 2008

  • Atlanta Falcons Life Designed to give a visual refresh to the official community portal of the Atlanta Falcons.
  • Project: Atlanta Falcons Life
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2008
  • Description: Designed to give a visual refresh to the official community portal of the Atlanta Falcons.
    They were using a different forum software and wanted to switch to the better features of IPB, and doing so they needed a new design. I took some inspiration from the main web site, and just had fun.
  • Dallas Stars
  • Project: Dallas Stars
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2008
  • Description: This skin was designed to match the web site of the Stars, but this project later fell subject to a disastrous color change.
    This draft was considered 'too dark' but then again, I thought their web site was... Go figure...
    I did the changes that were requested, but I like the original far more!
  • Family Miracles Onlien
  • Project: Family Miracles Onlien
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2008
  • Description: This skin was designed for a site devoted to the mission of uniting potential surrogate families and the narrowing down of prospective clinics, lawyers and doctors.
  • Get Me Lower Rates
  • Project: Get Me Lower Rates
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2008
  • Description: I'm not sure if this project ever materialized into something cool, but the little houses came out pretty neat. heh
  • Katy Perry Official Forum Skin Official skin on Katy Perry's forum.
  • Project: Katy Perry
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2008
  • Description: Custom skin for the official Katy Perry forum to match her main web site.
  • Lenny Kravitz
  • Project: Lenny Kravitz
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2008
  • Description: This is my all-time favorite skin that I've created for a music artist.
    It was created to coincide with a new album release by Lenny Kravitz.
  • The Official Jonas Brothers Forum Skin
  • Project: The Official Jonas Brothers Forum
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2008
  • Description: The Jonas Brothers Fan Club migrated forum software, and I created their new skin.
    In this image, I only pulled in enough of the site's wrapper to skin the forum; on the live site there is a lot more going on at the top of the board.
  • Firedog Forum Circuit City's Firedog Forum
  • Project: Circuit City - Firedog
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2008
  • Description: We've created a lot of skins for forums that are used on company intranet envrionments. The Firedog forum was a place for Circuit City employees to talk shop with fellow employees around the globe.

Projects Completed in 2007

  • bhp Biliton Gonzo is the internal network of bhp Biliton, one of the largest raw material companies in the world.
  • Project: bhp Biliton
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: Gonzo is the internal network of bhp Biliton, one of the largest raw material companies in the world.
    This skin was originally crafted with none other than Gonzo the Great hanging (upside-down, mind you) from the top right corner of the skin, but licensing a Jim Henson Company character is a nightmare!
    I crafted a custom emoticon 'flower' and stuck in one that had some Gonzo-ish elements to keep the original flair alive, albeit discreetly.
  • Blue Charcoal This was a free skin released for IPB 2.2. It was one of the most popular designs I created during my time at Metalaxe.
  • Project: Blue Charcoal
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: This was a free skin released for IPB 2.2. It was one of the most popular designs I created during my time at Metalaxe.
  • Christian Outdoorsman
  • Project: Christian Outdoorsman
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: I'm not entirely crazy about this skin, but it matches the web site very well.
    I did a little touch up work on the logo, as it was hard to tell exactly what it was (fishing lure/line and a gun sight), and just matched the colors.
  • Invisionize Envy
  • Project: Invisionize Envy
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: This skin was created for a skin contest over at Invisionize and it was installed as an alternate skin on the forum.
    The reason behind the name is cheesy, but my only goal was to make everyone green with envy from my entry, and I did just that.
  • Eternal Flame
  • Project: Eternal Flame
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: This is still the sexiest dark IPB skin I've ever seen, let alone made.
  • Live Love Be
  • Project: Live Love Be
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: This is another site that I'm not sure if it ever took off or not. I am positive that if it does take off, visitors will not be disappointed with the forum!
  • Meg Baisden Photography
  • Project: Meg Baisden Photography
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: Meg and Charles Baisden are a photography team out of Florida, and wanted to set up a forum for their clients.
    It was originally conceived as a meeting ground for brides-to-be and married couples that had used Meg and Charles for photographs, but I'm not sure what came of the site after I wrapped up the skin.
    I pulled in some ideas from their web site and blog to come up with what you see.
    Meg and Charles are truly talented and genuinely great people, so stop by and poke around their fantastic portfolio!
  • Metalaxe Default Forum Skin
  • Project: Metalaxe Default Forum Skin
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: The Metalaxe site I designed used color coded sections across the site, and the forum was no exception.
    I crafted this to fit seamlessly with the rest of the site, and I didn't hear any complaints about the outcome.
  • Newfield Network
  • Project: Newfield Network
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: This is the Newfield Network forum skin, based on their old site design.
    I wanted to stay nice and clean, focusing on content rather than pizazz in the skin. The best thing about the whole project is the dynamic header image, scaling to fit all browser widths.
  • Metalaxe Elementals - Ocean
  • Project: Metalaxe Elementals - Ocean
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: This was the first of a planned line of free skins entitled Metalaxe Elementals.
    My original intention was to use this same template but swap out the graphics for the other elements (wind, fire, earth), focusing on powerful imagery to really sell the skins.
    I finished this one and released it, never to make another.
    The custom code involved in the side menu was very complex and difficult to maintain, so when the next version of IP.Board was released, I scrapped the idea of upgrading Ocean and creating the others I planned.
  • Safari Talk
  • Project: Safari Talk
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: Safari Talk's goal is to raise awareness of wildlife conservation efforts around the world.
    Please stop by and pitch in anyway you can, as I did by donating my work for the cause. Even a few kind words of gratitude for the work that happens outside the limelight would be appreciated!
  • VideoGamey.com Skin
  • Project: VideoGamey.com Skin
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: This skin was designed to seamlessly integrate with the VideoGamey website.
    This was a very fun skin to work on!
  • Board Index Official Montreal Canadiens Forum
  • Project: Official Montreal Canadiens Forum
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: As part of my NHL contracted skins, the Canadiens' forum was converted from VBulletin to IP.Board. I copied the skin so well that most people couldn't even tell they were using a different board application.
  • Board Index Official Carolina Hurricanes Forum
  • Project: Official Carolina Hurricanes
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: Red, white and blue go well together in just about every circumstance, and the skin for the Official Hurricanes board is no exception. Using bold color accents, we crafted a skin that was truly captivating.
  • Viv Thomas Forum Viv Thomas skin by Solidare Design
  • Project: Viv Thomas
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2007
  • Description: Viv Thomas is a prolific pornographer, and the studio had an awesome forum skin from us at one point.

Projects Completed in 2006

  • Aksent Forum Custom skin to match a music artist's web site.
  • Project: AkSent
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2006
  • Description: Custom skin to match a music artist's web site.
  • Cannonball 8000
  • Project: Cannonball 8000
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2006
  • Description: This skin was designed for participants of the 2006 Cannonball 8000, but I'm pretty sure it never amounted to anything that was used.
    It's a shame, because the forum would have been fun to use.
  • Janet Jackson
  • Project: Janet Jackson
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2006
  • Description: Though this skin is many years old at this point, it's still one of my favorites.
    Janet Jackson actually browses her own forum, and she requested that her music agency get a new look for the forum because the default skin was hideous.
    After completion, I was thanked by Janet (through a few intermediaries) for the great design.
  • Inspire
  • Project: Metalaxe Inspire
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2006
  • Description: Long before IPB 2.1 was released, IPS released some screenshots of the new admin control panel.
    I really liked what I saw at the time and came up with a front end skin inspired by the images.
  • Orsmforums 2006
  • Project: Orsmforums 2006
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2006
  • Description: Don't ask me how, but this skin eventually evolved into the Candy Striped series.
  • Oscar Support
  • Project: Oscar Support
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2006
  • Description: Oscar Support is the internal forum used by United Franchise Group (Signa-a-Rama and a few other properties).
  • RR Zone
  • Project: RR Zone
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2006
  • Description: This is the first skin I designed for profit, way back in 2006.
    Still holds up pretty well too.
  • Section Six
  • Project: Section Six
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2006
  • Description: I'm not sure what the site was for, but I do know that it looked sexy as hell.
  • Style Industry
  • Project: Style Industry
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2006
  • Description: Though this skin is almost four years old, it's still the most customized layout I've created for a client.
    I stripped out so much of the fluff IPB has, that it took more than 40 hours of work to get to what you see in the screen shot.
    It was a lot of work, but very infectious; it started my love for minimal designs.
  • The Vista Forums
  • Project: The Vista Forums
  • Filed Under: IP.Board Skins
  • Project Completed: 2006
  • Description: This skin was so much fun. I was called upon to pull in the look and feel of the Microsoft site, and this is the result.