Lithia Flash Ads
Part of my time while I was at Lithia Motors was used to create flash advertising. While I was skilled in the creation of flash movies and games, advertising was a new adventure for me. I quickly learned the shortcuts for cutting down ad sizes to below 30kb, working with in dealership limitations and fun deadlines/quick turn arounds of online advertising. Read the rest of this entry »
New Layout and Design
For those of you who visit the site regularly, you may have noticed that the design has changed a bit. All of the categories that you’ve come to know and love are still here but the color pallet has changed a bit. Don’t be alarmed! You’re computer is not broken (so you can stop trying to adjust the monitor now). What I did this week is officially dump Joomla as my content management system and moved over to WordPress.
For those unaware of the history of DustinReese.com, it goes something like this:
- Stage 1: Hand coded entire site from scratch
- Stage 2: Switched over to Joomla and it was awesome
- Stage 3: Fed up with Joomla’s overly complex and easily breakable/hackable/annoying set up
- Stage 4: Switch to easier, more intuitive WordPress
So how does this little experiment turn out? Hell if I know but I’m going to give it a shot. I’ve been using WordPress for my Plus One blog and it’s really nice. We’ve also switched all the websites from Joomla to WordPress at work so all around me, Joomla is going away. But you should know that even if I do decide to change the CM sometime in the future, know that it’s more for me then you, so all your favorite content should still be here when you come back.
-Dustin
Grilled Sausages with Caramelized onions and apples
When the leafs begin to fall as summer comes to a close, then warm foods that are full of flavor become the norm. This German dish is simple to make and packs many different flavors into one meal. If you’re looking for something sweet, crisp and buttery, then this is the dish for you.
LAD Linkosaurus Rex
This AIR app was designed to simplify the process of creating tracking links for e-mail. To make a long story short, we’d have to create tractable links by hand based off of a sheet of paper and that not only seemed rather 90′s, it also was hard! I went about creating this program and it now creates the links for you based on the information you’ve entered.
The Awesome Dustin and Josh Awesome Show
Let’s just be honest here, I enjoy making things. If you didn’t get that vibe from the site, then allow me to solidify that for you. Introducing “The Awesome Dustin & Josh Awesome Show (it’s awesome!)”. For the record, I made the puppets.
