Chris Jennings

I have finally decided to start a “Refresh” group in my community. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, a “Refresh” is a community of developers, designers, usability experts and other new media professionals working together to refresh the creative, technical and professional aspects of their trade and help foster new ideas in their area. The area in this case is the Tri-Cities area of Eastern Tennessee.

If you live in or around the Tri-Cities area (Johnson City, Kingsport or Bristol) and you would like to be a part and/or would like to assist me in planning, please contact me.

This was my first project with Shiftcore Studios. Motion Picture Demise, an Orange Peel Records band, wanted a site that would enable them to keep in close contact with their fans, display tour dates and share photos.

Tim, our lead designer and founder took on the task of designing this layout from art from MPD’s CD. He then animated the main flash header and sent the layout to me for XHTML / CSS slicing.

Once the layout was sliced, I installed wordpress and implemented this design as a theme.

As you may have noticed, I am implementing a brand new design for this blog.  I have spent the better part of the day on the design and I couldn’t be happier with it.

I’ve also decided that this blog will now be much more Design, Marketing and SEO oriented as they are primarily my livelihood.  I want to learn what you know, by showing you what (little) I know.

I’m going to call it a day, if you get a chance - tell me what you think of this new theme and how it could be improved in the comments.

Web + was a project I worked on for Brian. I adapted his design to Wordpress in order to give his blog the custom feel he wanted.

Rose Concrete Coatings was an adventurous web design for a concrete coatings company from Nevada.  Mike from Rose Coatings wanted to show off his work and also display his various inventory of stone finishings for garages, patios and decks.

Unfortunately Mike went with the updating service, HWS, and they have posted a claim on the design at the bottom of the page.  I assure you this is my work and they have claimed it fraudulently.  Oh well!  Still had fun with this one.

I want to introduce one of my new blogs, IndieClothingBlog.com.  This site revolves around the independent clothing industry with tutorials, reviews, brand spotlight and insider tips from my experience with my clothing line.

I’d appreciate if you’d check it out and tell a friend or two

If this documentary is correct, Americans should never have to pay federal income tax again. Digg this up and let’s get this on the home page. I, for one, would love to not have to file!

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His pants are pulled up past his waist and he has a high whinny voice. Its amazing that its the same guy… a nerdy northerner.

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Yesterday a co-worker asked me this brain-bang of a question and I am stumped. I hope I’m not overlooking something simple, but I’ve got to admit I’m questioning all existence.

It went like this:

Three businessmen were on a trip. They were tired and needed a place to stay for the night. One of the hotels they passed were offering a $30 a night special for one room. The businessmen thought that it would be wise to split the $30 and stay together.

The businessmen each paid the hotel clerk $10 a piece and headed up to their room. Moments later, the clerk realized that the hotel had a special that night of $25 a room, so he sent his assistant up with a $5 rebate all in $1 bills.

Once the businessmen answered the door, the clerk’s assistant realized that he couldn’t split the $1 bills evenly among the three and started to head back down to get change. The businessmen stopped him and said, “How about you give us each $1, leaving yourself a $2 tip?” After thanking the businessmen, the clerk’s assistant went on with his business, $2 richer.

The men returned to their beds, and being businessmen, they were happy to only be $9 in the hole instead of $10.

And this is where it got me. There was $30 in play. The men paid $10 a piece and got $1 a piece back… leaving the clerk’s assistant $2.

3 * 9 = 27, add  2 from the clerk’s assistant and you have = 29.

What happened to the last dollar?

Time keeps flying by, everyone is decaying slightly more each day. I told Tim that something he designed was “the bomb” earlier and then turns out he wasn’t laughing at me, he was laughing with me.

The end of my corporate life is drawing near, which sucks because… When am I going to be able to write on my blog? When will I be able to spend hours talking to Brian about our next big web app? Where else am I going to get paid for wasting time?

For the last 8 months I have been making more money than any of my friends and yet it feels like i’m always broke. I’m seriously wondering how you guys do it. Due to my current situation, I am forcing myself to follow Ramit’s “I Will Teach You to Be Rich” course. This means that I will have to monitor ALL of my spending for a month and budget accordingly. In a very weird way I am looking forward to this… as I am positive if I would have started this when I first read it, I would be much better off here in the now.

In the mean time I want to write a book, travel, learn the meaning of life and maybe pay the rent.